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.




