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Camden New Journal - CROW by RICHARD OSLEY and PIP WROE
Published: 16 October 2008

Boo hoo, Arsenal are fast becoming the best feeder club in the world

BOOO. I almost swerved off the road when I heard Rio Ferdinand tell us that a little bit of booing for Ashley Cole woz like well aht ov ordah.
I would have done too if I could afford the kind of top of the range sports car that Cole swerves about in. I can’t even afford the driving lessons to get myself behind the wheel of a Mini. Boooo.
But then I don’t earn the big bucks because I’m not trusted to ensure Kazakhstan don’t score an embarrassing goal against England at Wembley.
Truth is, when you get top whack and the supporters in the stands have paid £200 or so to take the family to the game, you kinda have to take a bit of booing on the chin if your lazy pass back leads to the other team scoring. Booo.
Days after Rio’s “leave poor Ash alone” lecture, he admitted the WAGgy lifestyle that our pop star-loving footballers enjoyed during the World Cup was so distracting it meant eyes were not kept on the ball.
Ja Ja Binks is right. It was too distracting but if only he could put two and two together, then he’d understand why people booed.
Cole, who has not won a league title since leaving Arsenal for a bigger pay packet, represents more than one bad back pass.
He represents the ugly excesses of the
car-swerving, millionaire world of the Premiership which most scarfers are quickly losing affection for. Booo..

WILLIAM Gallas astutely observed that the culture for winning things doesn’t yet exist at Arsenal.
That’s true, William. Unfortunately, you have to win things first, something this side hasn’t done. This is why Arsenal are fast becoming the world’s finest feeder club. Cesc Fabregas will be their greatest achievement, back to Barca with a shedload of experience at 22 years old. In return Arsenal will get money, but that’s no compensation for Wenger.
This week Roman Pavlyuchenko won a seat on his regional council in Russia – his rise as a politician confirming suspicions that Spurs are now a semi-professional side much like the UEFA Cup teams made up of butchers and postmen that we play for confidence boosters every fortnight.
If Pavlyuchenko is a politician, we have to wonder what other jobs our part-timers are holding down on the side. Jermaine Jenas is no doubt a budding actor attempting to perfect his role as the invisible man in the midst of our midfield, while Damien Comolli appears to have all the makings of Del Boy’s protege, wheeling and dealing his way to unemployment.
This week was one of the better ones for Spurs this season – no game gives us the opportunity to build up a bit of confidence, crucial as next week we have to face the most devastating set-piece taker maybe ever to grace the game of football. Stoke’s Rory Delap.

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