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.
ElliotGooner wrote:The remarks have to be considered within the environment they were made. Alan Davies' Tuesday Club' isn't a debate forum for topics such as forms, players and results such as The Gooner Podcast. It is just him and 2 of his mates spouting random abuse usually homophobic and/or insensitive, summed up by his Hillsborough comments.
Yet the wider issue is the boundary between harmless pub/singing banter such as the Nasri and Cashley songs regularly sung which I consider banter and funny or the offensive chanting which is no longer banter such as the Adebayor coach tragedy songs and the anti-Semitic chants often sung by our lot at the Swamp. Davies regularly falls in the latter category which makes me think keep your views to yourself not broadcast them to his fans. And for the record joking about Hillsborough, an event where 96 football fans died watching the team they loved, no matter how this came about, is not and never will be an acceptable subject for banter. Yes, he questioned why they cant play on the date but the way he went about it is why this uproar has been caused.
But the point is he did not joke about the event or the deaths, he recognised it as terible, his jokes were more about the manager and about refusing to play on that day.
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:safcftm I thought you were better than that- look up the youtube video of the podcast and see that his comments were taken out of context before spewing such presumptious, ignorant shit. he said that hillsborough was a terrible disaster, but retiring one day of the year to permanent mourning, even if it means fucking up another club's european campaign is backwards and stupid , don't make it about the ten year old victims at hillsborugh that day ffs.
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Fair enough, sorry lads, I probably overreacted a bit. I maintain that if they see fit to try and avoid playing that day then it's up to them but Davies comments probably didn't warrant the rant I gave them, it's a bad time for me at the minute personally because of something a very close friend is going through and as a result that just struck a nerve and resulted in an overreaction. There you go, a near first for the Gooner, an apology and a retraction
Theres a lot of Scouse hatred on here ,very sad,no point in discussing it either because feelings are entrenched but for people to say they murdered their own shows a complete lack of humanity or compassion !
He is a but not as much as the dickwad that is Rory Magrath ,I've had to have words in his shell like over the Arsenal for his I'm a celebrity get me served quicker than these plebs approach to pubbing !
Herd wrote:He is a but not as much as the dickwad that is Rory Magrath ,I've had to have words in his shell like over the Arsenal for his I'm a celebrity get me served quicker than these plebs approach to pubbing !
Like Flash he isn't even funny
and i thought we were friends
Dont like Alan Davies and dont like that sulf-indulgent podcast full of giggling buffoons hanging on Davies every word
Herd wrote:He is a but not as much as the dickwad that is Rory Magrath ,I've had to have words in his shell like over the Arsenal for his I'm a celebrity get me served quicker than these plebs approach to pubbing !
“Liverpool and the 15th -- that gets on my tits that shit. What are you talking about, 'We won't play on the day'. Why can't they?”
“Do they play on the date of the Heysel Stadium disaster? How many dates do they not play on? Do Man United play on the date of Munich? Do Rangers play on the date when all their fans died in that disaster whatever year that was – 1971”
So what exactly is wrong with what he said? I haven't listened to the podcast so I'm assuming those quotes are correct, if they are then I can't see what the fuss is all about.
but not as much as the dickwad that is Rory Magrath ,I've had to have words in his shell like over the Arsenal for his I'm a celebrity get me served quicker than these plebs approach to pubbing ! 
