As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Keep the name tony but you should change your avatar back to that one where that fit bird was with the German sheperd and a tin of pedigree chum...................... Am I getting my forums mixed up again?
I can do nothing better than quote that philosophical genius, myself from the "Is IHH having an existentilal crisis?" thread from October.
The following should be read in a pompous twat voice, like one of those BBC history programme blokes or Lloyd Grossman.
There has been much speculation on various threads of this forum as to why I Hate Hleb refuses to change his name now that Alex is making a claim for player of the season. The most popular new theory, which seems to be supported by IHH himself is that the name is now deeply ironic in a post modernist, Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst way, allowing us to see the angst as the team he loves makes the transition from delicate neophytes to the dogs bollocks. Maintaining the name seems to say "i knew this Epiphany would take place."
Another school of thought is that he is having an existential crisis like Mathieu in Sartre's Roads to Freedom or more disturbingly like Camus in La Peste. Does IHH really exist? Is he only a figment of a greater Gooner imagination? Does he have a reason for existence now that Alex is playing so well or has his work on earth been fulfilled?
The third strain of opinion gaining currency following his revelation on the "Hands off Chippy" thread that he not only wears his mothers dress but her underwear too, is that this is part of an Oedipus complex, but an unusual one in that he wants to sleep with Hlebs mother and the self loathing this engenders means he displaces his feelings on to Alex and therefore I Hate Hleb.
The fourth opinion (known as the Woking School, leading acolyte 26may1989) is that this is all a load of bollocks and he can't admit he was wrong.
Finally I think we can discount the Nitzschean view that he is a bastardhole or closet spud as going there would undoubtedly cause a tear in the space time continuum that even Doctor Who couldn't put back together.
BTW I didn't want to know his name is Tony. It takes away some of the magic.
Cesc is God wrote:Seriously now, how the hell can you hate Hleb?
He has been one, if not, the best and most consistent player we have had this season.
Any chance of changing your username or don't you want to lose your post count!
CESC IS GOD,
NOT THAT OLD CHESTNUT AGAIN, MATEY?
SERIOUSLY NOW, HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO ASK THAT SAME FECKING QUESTION? THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE BEFORE THE SUMMER AND I HAVE EXPLAINED THE REASON TO YOU NUMEROUS TIMES BEFORE. I AM NOT - REPEAT NOT!!! - GOING TO CHANGE MY USERNAME FOR YOU, OR ANYONE ELSE (WELL, MAYBE MISS LOVELY, IF SHE ASKS ME NICELY ).
NOW I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO HANDLE - ALTHOUGH I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THERE WERE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS FOR YOU TO WORRY ABOUT - BUT DO ME AND YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND PLEASE COME TO TERMS WITH IT.
Ok then, I think its time for a change, the future is bright, get rid of the negativity, embrace change, move on, etc etc I think you should maybe change your name or put it to the vote?