Hoody'a Think You Are? Another Spat With Phil Brown
Dec 18th, 2009 by 'holic
Well if I have forgotten anything for tomorrow it is too late now. Jacket, scarf, gloves, and of course the hoody, are ready for what looks like being a bitterly cold day at the Grove. A snowy December Saturday, a half past five kick-off, and Hull City. What did I do to deserve a ticket to this?
I should at this point differentiate between my feelings about Hull City and their supporters, and the incompetent, egocentric, self-centred, lying dick of a manager they have. And that is just his good points.
Last September I occupied a seat right next to the visiting Tigers, and although we were on the wrong end of a two-one scoreline, I enjoyed a laugh and a joke with them, and at the final whistle shook a few hands. There was no reason not to, because on the day we were beaten by the better side. In defeat I believe we showed good grace.
Fast forward to March this year and the antics of one imbecile undid much of the good impression that the Humberside outfit had created. As I accepted in my blog after the final whistle had blown in the FA Cup tie, we had benefited from a winner that should not have been.
Given the refereeing error it was perhaps understandable that good grace was not top of the beaten manager’s agenda at the final whistle. Yet his was the most undignified post-match interview I have had the misfortune to witness, and his infamous ‘darlin’ interview the following morning was cringeworthy in the extreme. That there proved to be no evidence of his pathetic allegations when the FA were compelled to investigate was no surprise.
Arsene said today that it is in the past. I would expect that of him. I know he’s right to try and pour oil on troubled waters. That still doesn’t stop me from wanting to stand up for Cesc, subject of some pretty damning falsehoods, and who, ruled out by injury, had the temerity to wear a hoody to the game.
Full circle, we seem to have travelled. Cesc is added to the longest injury list I can recall, and will again watch from the sidelines. The imagination is running riot. I can see a musical blockbuster with the skipper and fifty-seven thousand hoody-clad Gooners serenading the visiting bench, all standing, arms swaying.
They couldn’t see the spit, when they went to look for it,
‘Cause Brown, he lied, that tosser, Horton too,
So we’ll enjoy this show, and the sickly orange glow
For the last time, ’cause you’re getting sacked, you two.
And always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the right side of life…
Ok, so it’s not Lloyd-Webber. What do you expect for free?
The ‘holic pound, I hear you say. Well, who knows. If anything happens to Arshavin who will score? You just know this could be anything from a big win to another bad day at the office. I will be positive. Ladbrokes in the ground should offer 7/1 against a 3-0 home win. That should be more I think, but nobody has better so it will do for me.
If you are going I hope we don’t get too cold. Lots of stamping and boistrous Brown-baiting should help generate some heat. I’m looking forward to meeting some familiar faces, and one or two not so familiar, in the pub beforehand.
Have a great weekend, ‘holics.
33 Responses to “Hoody'a Think You Are? Another Spat With Phil Brown”
Brown is a jackass!
A beer for me please.
Definitely wearing my black zip-up hoody to the match tomorrow
Shame Cesc can’t play.
Holic, views on CL draws. Been quite kind to us , if you ask me. Also hopefully Mourinho and Flamini can help us.
I would love if everyone clapped their hands once and shouted “You’ve been tango’d”
One thing at a time, Sajit!
Of course the draw could not have been much kinder. If we have a functioning forward line by then we should get through comfortably.
Don’t think Chelsea or the Mancs won’t run over the Milanese. The three English clubs and Barca are still the ones to beat in this competition.
Stay warm tomorrow ‘holic. You could always put your hood up. I hope the majority where hoods tomorrow too.
I’ll have a hot toddy, please barkeep.
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Phil “Orangy” Brown is a true prat, although I wouldn’t really want to see him sacked.
Why H2H, Whhhyyy??? I hear you ask.
Well to me he is necassary evil, as it’s the Christmas season lets liken him to a pantomine villian, a real charachter you just love to hate. We’ll boo him while he’s up to his “antics” and laugh heartily when his fiendish plans backfire. He’s not everybodys cup of tea, but an integrial part of the “play”, you’d miss him if he weren’t there.
Anyway heres hoping our lads can give his team a Hull of a beating tomorrow to raise our Christmas cheer.
I was tempted to order a small Port, o barman, to celebrate our CL draw, but I’ll plum for a nice pint of cider please sir.
Cheers.
Arsen is the first to complain when things don’t go his way (a full week off for us, wolves putting a weakend team against utd). Any manager would complain about ridiculous decions like last march at the emirates. Up the Tigers and the orange one!
Brownie has said it’s all history and is forgotten, Wenger has said the same, don’t you think it would be a good idea if you moved on too ?
Take the point Tiger fan. Week off and weak Wolves is a red herring.
There is a difference between those one-off answers to loaded questions, and the persistent ranting that Brown engaged in for weeks after that game.
If you are coming down tomorrow i hope you have a decent trip. Looks like the weather may conspire to make it a journey from hell.
Goonerholic
The slightly deluded Brownie that got carried away with himself after the FA Cup game and for much of the second half of last season is history, we now have the chilled one back(now that his best mate the Chairman got the elbow), no more tan, no more earpiece and no more daft comments.
It’s a welcome return, now we can just get back to worrying about playing football and on a good day, we can can still do that quite well.
“If you are coming down tomorrow i hope you have a decent trip. Looks like the weather may conspire to make it a journey from hell.”
It’s called Hull mate……………
Buts it is indeed hard to tell the difference.. 😉
Same again please.
Cheers
I hear you Lambrettaman, and I hope you are right.
Take the orange one out of the equation and I have a lot of time for Hull. Football isn’t just about the big four (or three, suck it up Scousers!).
We know better than anyone what you can do on a good day, but I hope I’m not sounding too condescending if I say Bullard is almost as big a miss for you as Clichy, Fabregas, Rosicky, van Persie, and Bendtner (amongst others) for us.
I mean what I say when I say tomorrow could be anything.
Anyway, fair play for standing up for your man. Good luck to you, fella.
I can’t wait to see Brown at the Grove tomorrow. He is a total arse and will be informed of such on a regular basis. His rant and accusations were total lies and something he should be ashamed of. I still do not remember an apology?
We need a convincing win tomorrow to carry forward to the rest of the holiday games. Then off for beer and free chips in the Tollie…
Happy days.
Keep the faith.
Heh ‘holic. Have a great day.
Brown has done some cringeworthy things in the past and Pearson told him to wind his neck in and so far he’s been ok (except the 451 tactic which he uses a lot!) Hope PB goes 442 with Ghilas and Altidore up front and Geo behind then we might see a good game! UTT
Oooma Loompa is the biggest tosser in Pl football together with his mouthy fat Cousin big fat lying out of his as Sam.
It’s going to be a tough game tomorrow with many important players missing and a few players far from their best level.
We need to win it and we will but that’s not going to be an easy ride for the players nor the fans. I feel you’re very brave with your pound ‘Holic.
I’m very impatient to the lineup though. I was both right and wrong the time before, Walcott played but not centrally. I really hope we will see him play CF sooner than later. He just needs one goal and he will be flying again.
BTW did you know that Seaman was assisting Bould? It’s in the fascinating series of articles about our youth academy in the daily Telegraph.
Here’s the pictures;: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/gallery-1004015/Graham-Chadwicks-exclusive-look-Arsene-Wengers-talent-factory.html
No drinks today unless the hangover from yesteday fades away, in which case I still have a few Carlsbergs left from last week-end…
Hello Matt,
I would be surprised if Theo started again tomorrow. After so little football I think he is scheduled to start on the bench, but may be called upon as the much-vaunted ‘impact sub’.
Time for me to get some shut eye. I fear there will be much to drink tomorrow as it is a 5.30 kick-off. I should travel up later, but I just love the pub too much 😉
I think everyone should wear a hoody for this game, just to piss off Brown
Much has gone well this merry season. At the heart of all that has been good, the Terrific Triumvirate of Triumph (henceforth TTT) that is the pyramid, the sphinx, and the three wise men, Fabregas, Denilson and Song.
These three kings not of Leyton Orient are. Sadly, yonder star shines down on one of our trio, sitting, sorrowing, sighing, with the oxen near the manger. For the bearer of much gold, young Fabregas the Catellan, has fallen off his camel and stretched his tendon afar.
The traverse becomes longer when the trio to a duo is reduced. Likewise the merriment, and to be frank, in a sense, the team looks less likely to bear gifts and we may have no moor than a myrrh one goal in yonder net to celebrate.
Will it be a silent night? Will ‘Holic feel sealed in a stone cold Emirates tomb neath his hoodie, incensed by Phil, the Brown stain on the underpants of Hull’s bright royal beauty Jimmy Bullard.
Or will the perfect light shine down in the gathering gloom on Arsh, avin the game of westward leading life, and still proceeding to score and be crowned king forever, as over you all it reigns?
A hot mead in a pewter piss pot for me tonight, barman.
danish gooner, no you are the biggest tosser of fan of arsenal whole history.i suppose you will disappear if we win until our next draw or lost where you will be posting your usual crap.
anyway,i m going to the match too 🙂 .hope fan will turn up even with this bad weather and the freaking referee don’t cancel the freaking match last mn.
up the gunner
Oratory, BtM, pure oratory 😉
Steady Btm, I think you should Carol your emotions.
Good King Wenger’s Lass Looked Out,
And asked if we could beat them,
Half the squad is knacked and out,
Dad, can we still defeat them?
‘The spirits good’ her father said,
I think we’re worth a small punt,
I cannot wait until the end,
To shake hands with that orange cunt!
Just to point out, Kingston upon Hull. home of the Tigers is in East Yorkshire, ther is no such place as Humberside
3-0 to the Gunners. Congrats on the ‘Holic Pound.
Well in ‘holic. You called it. I hope you put a few of the ‘holic pound’s mates onto that 7/1.
Theo missing two at the end though must have made your bum squeak a bit.
Hope you weren’t too cold. We had a -5.5 degrees showing in the car coming back from the coast this evening. Managed to listen to the last 60 minutes in the car on Radio 5 alive. They were baying for a Hull victory and we were apparently lucky to go in ahead. They also reckoned Nasri should have been sent off for the spat just before the first goal.
Sounded like a handbags at dawn encounter to my trained ear.
Anyway, look forward to your write up tomorrow.
PS. You should put together a book of ‘holic poetry, all contributions welcome.
Not a chance in the world that I will criticize anything in that game. Was somewhat hard-fought, it had some goals, all for us, and a on-field spat, going our way, good performance from Diaby, nice South American freekick (Something about the ankles right? Eduardo should really take all the long freekicks from the left that we’re trying to put on target, Arshavin should take the ones we float in), it had some nice turns from Eduardo, some lovely dribbling from Nasri some real pace from Walcott and some pure cunning from Ramsey (Trying to win awards for long sentences btw). Even Silvestre (with the odd hairy moment) did well. And of course the game had a penalty. Vermaelen and Gallas were solid with a big S.
Now, not everything the players mentioned tried to do came off correctly, but what the hell, good, solid home win is all we can ask for at the moment, innit?
Well played Gunners and well placed pounds ‘Holic!
Are you all forgetting Phil Brown apologised for all his comments last season.?
THE APOLOGY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyie2kAmg6I
holic, unfortunately everyone focuses on Brown’s attacks on Cesc and Wenger (understandably) — he lied about both our captain and our manager. He went on national TV, attacked the integrity of our captain and our manager with assertions based entirely on LIES.
Bad as those comments were, what I cannot and never ever will forget (and no true gooner should) is what he said about OUR CLUB. Beyond any personal attacks on our captain and our manager, what was totally beyond any excuse, beyond any forgiveness was his PUBLIC ATTACK ON OUR CLUB.
He said (paraphrasing): “that’s the kind of club they are” when LYING about Cesc spitting on Horton.
Can anyone recall Ferguson, Mourinho, Alladyce, Hughes, any other manager going on national TV and publicly insulting our club like that? I can’t. And for that, I will forever despise Phil Brown. If he’d come out and apologized for those comments (abjectly), then maybe I might forget it. Maybe. But he hasn’t.
Imagine the uproar if Wenger had gone on national TV and said that about another PL club, esp. one managed by one of those good ol’ British lads.
Anyway, 3-0 to the Arsenal. Hard fought game, fantastic goals. And I for one liked seeing Nasri getting stuck in showing some bite. Our players are too damned nice. When we weren’t so nice, we were winning things.
Diaby has had two great games in a row, amazing.
Oh, and Man Utd lost! So did Liverpool. Unfortunately City won but Hughes lost his job. And Ade was on the bench, Hughes and City fans have become totally disenchanted with his laziness and his knack for choosing which games to show up. Read the City blogs and the media pundits analyzing Ade recently — just proves how right we were in getting rid of him.