Brian Glanville (merged)

[BucksBlue]

Re: Brian Glanville

Just listened to this Glanville rambling. What a sour, gobshit of a toff this man is.
I've never heard such an unwarranted and disgusting insult for our club.
"What a ghastly club" he calls us on no other basis than we now have the financial power enjoyed by others in the past.
Glanville said the reason we won the Premier League was because of Barton's sending off. What a sad, blinkered, demented old man.
He also said, together with Utd, we were crap in Europe last season.
Got the feeling he's adopted Fulham and feels sorry for Arsenal.
Southerners eh??
Another reason not be associated with the 'Sunday Times' even though he was put out to pasture long ago.
Still we all have opinions.<br /><br />-- Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:32 pm --<br /><br />

I hope the club take him to task on this... even the talk sport presenters sounded embarrassed and surprised at his degree of hateful bile.

To be fair to TalkSport they were indeed embarrassed.......

 

[LoveCity]

Re: Brian Glanville

This is the article that cost World Soccer my monthly subscription. I won't shed a tear when Glanville disappears off the face of the earth. He's a horrible upper class pompous arse.

Thrilling it may have been, but was Manchester City’s title win a victory for money?

What euphoria, what might even call hysteria, what clamorous sycophancy in the media both in print and on television, as Manchester City edged their way so laboriously and belatedly to the victory which gave them their first top League title since 1968.

It remains tempting to say that they bought the title rather than won it. The colossal outpouring of money from Sheik Mansour and co. not only on vast transfer fees but on wages – £200,000 a week to Yaya Toure, another £190,000 a week to Carlos Tevez, now forgiven by Mancini – and every indication that spending at this vertiginous level can continue. Since although the Platini plan is supposed to constrain clubs to spend only within their earnings it has recently transpired that City’s Middle East investors have paid them another £400 million.

It might be argued that in the lamentably restricted two horse race went on merit to City. Had they not thrashed United 6-1 at Old Trafford then beaten an inert and unambitious United team 1-0 at home? Yet the $64,000 question surely remains; could City have done it at all, succeeded in their breathless overtime victory against Queens Park Rangers, had that irredeemable recidivist Joey Barton yet again displayed the cloven hoof, or, if you like, elbow, and condemned QPR to half an hour without him? A period in which they showed enormous resilience and defiance, actually daring to go into the lead which they lost only in those final minutes.

Barton has tried and oh so hard to re-invent himself, helped by handy books of quotations, as one of the game’s thinkers rather than one or its worst violent offenders. Why he recently even went on BBC Newsnight, confronted by that supreme interlocutor Jeremy Paxman, and when asked for his views on the appointment as new England manager of Roy Hodgson. Why ask Barton of all people you may have wondered. It looked very like a cheap stunt by Paxo and his programme knowing that Barton had been trying despite his appalling past to re-invent himself as some kind of an intellectual, and might say controversial even somewhat outrageous things. In fact Barton behaved impeccably despite Paxman having generously recited his previous of aggression when introducing him.

True Barton was provoked last Sunday but his reaction, significantly delayed so that it couldn’t be described as being in the heat of the moment, was all too typically brutal. As were his further offences when sent off the field. So perhaps City his former club should even raise a glass to him, for having made their victory possible.

Did City deserve it? Again one asked oneself the question. Buying all the costly players they did not only formidably strengthen their own ranks but denied such players to other clubs. Not least to Arsenal, from whom they whisked away last summer both Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri, thus gravely weakening an Arsenal team which lost a still more essential player in Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona.

 

[jimharri]

Re: Brian Glanville

This is the article that cost World Soccer my monthly subscription. I won't shed a tear when Glanville disappears off the face of the earth. He's a horrible upper class pompous arse.

Thrilling it may have been, but was Manchester City’s title win a victory for money?

What euphoria, what might even call hysteria, what clamorous sycophancy in the media both in print and on television, as Manchester City edged their way so laboriously and belatedly to the victory which gave them their first top League title since 1968.

It remains tempting to say that they bought the title rather than won it. The colossal outpouring of money from Sheik Mansour and co. not only on vast transfer fees but on wages – £200,000 a week to Yaya Toure, another £190,000 a week to Carlos Tevez, now forgiven by Mancini – and every indication that spending at this vertiginous level can continue. Since although the Platini plan is supposed to constrain clubs to spend only within their earnings it has recently transpired that City’s Middle East investors have paid them another £400 million.

It might be argued that in the lamentably restricted two horse race went on merit to City. Had they not thrashed United 6-1 at Old Trafford then beaten an inert and unambitious United team 1-0 at home? Yet the $64,000 question surely remains; could City have done it at all, succeeded in their breathless overtime victory against Queens Park Rangers, had that irredeemable recidivist Joey Barton yet again displayed the cloven hoof, or, if you like, elbow, and condemned QPR to half an hour without him? A period in which they showed enormous resilience and defiance, actually daring to go into the lead which they lost only in those final minutes.

Barton has tried and oh so hard to re-invent himself, helped by handy books of quotations, as one of the game’s thinkers rather than one or its worst violent offenders. Why he recently even went on BBC Newsnight, confronted by that supreme interlocutor Jeremy Paxman, and when asked for his views on the appointment as new England manager of Roy Hodgson. Why ask Barton of all people you may have wondered. It looked very like a cheap stunt by Paxo and his programme knowing that Barton had been trying despite his appalling past to re-invent himself as some kind of an intellectual, and might say controversial even somewhat outrageous things. In fact Barton behaved impeccably despite Paxman having generously recited his previous of aggression when introducing him.

True Barton was provoked last Sunday but his reaction, significantly delayed so that it couldn’t be described as being in the heat of the moment, was all too typically brutal. As were his further offences when sent off the field. So perhaps City his former club should even raise a glass to him, for having made their victory possible.

Did City deserve it? Again one asked oneself the question. Buying all the costly players they did not only formidably strengthen their own ranks but denied such players to other clubs. Not least to Arsenal, from whom they whisked away last summer both Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri, thus gravely weakening an Arsenal team which lost a still more essential player in Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona.

For the life of me, I can't see what point he is trying to make in that last paragraph re. Gael and Samir. Whisked them away? If they were happy at Arsenal and Whinger had wanted them to stay, I'm sure Arsenal would have offered them new, improved contracts. Perhaps they could see that Arsenal were stagnating as a club, with little or no chance of winning silverware.

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And as for weakening them, doesn't a lot of transfers, by every club, do that to the selling club? Listening to that TS interview, and more particularly the delivery of it, it sounds like he's lost a marble or 4.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Re: Brian Glanville

81,so not long,the bitter cnut will soon be dead....

 

[Soulboy]

Re: Brian Glanville

I reckon he's got piles. Fucking massive plum-sized throbbers.

It's not only daft twats like Brain G-G-G-Glanville that get me down, but the interviewers NEVER take them to task about their pompous ill-informed opinions.

They get a free 10 minutes to vent their spleen without ever having to explain it rationally. But he never critices Arsenal having TWO billionaires running the club, or charging £80 for a seat to watch a failing team, or that Wenger is one of highest paid managers in the world and is not earning it.

The death rattle of a bitter, disillusioned old man. I bet him and baconface get on great with each other...

 

[BringBackSwales]

Re: Brian Glanville

have twastards like him ever thought of the GOOD that our owners are doing for our club, and the money they are PUTTING IN, unlike arenal's owners who seem to do doing the absolute opposite; also our owners are determined to invest, and continue investing BIG TIME in the local area - are arsenal's owners doing the same? We have laughed and smiled through decades of bad times, now we are benefitting via fantastic owners, yet gits like this continue to spew untrue bile about us - absolutely disgusting, unfair and untrue

 

[mad4city]

Re: Brian Glanville

I used to have a second house near Dorchester, you know. My wife's people had held on to it for simply yonks. Of course, it was a crumbling old relic of a thing and there was a terribly unwieldy legion of a staff to be retained but well, Bunty had practically grown up there (having visited twice in her childhood) and was awfully devoted to the old shack. Insipiently so, I dare say...
Any hoo, the upshot of the bally thing was that one particular midsummer, whilst we were in residence there, we were forced to flog one of the groundskeepers for stealing spring onion in broad daylight (unwashed and straight out of the ground, he must have ate it!). Of course, he blamed the ickle, bunny-wunnies - but that sort always will, won't they?
I, naturally, had wanted him deported to Tasmania afterwards but Bunty being a soft old gal, insisted on merely exiling him to Manchester - or "oop north," as the yokels say.
Last I heard, he's now a City fan.
That's why I shall always hate the ghastly buggers!

Yours sincerely,

Brian Glanville
Professor of BolloxTalk, Bulshit College, Hampshire.

 

[Citizen Green]

Re: Brian Glanville

Someone's a tad bitter aren't they? LOL

 

[fallowfield]

Re: Brian Glanville

Someone's a tad bitter aren't they? LOL

exactly - just laugh at it

we're champions now, all the bitter journo comments don't arse me one bit.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Re: Brian Glanville

I listened to the "interview" and wondered whether the old codger was senile or just plain stupid, when I remembered he's just another resentful, Arsenal amnesiac. Having described City as "the most ghastly club" because of our owner's "unlimited funding" I wondered why his club had been so ready to accept so many of the Sheikh's shillings, and how this squared with Arsenal's rise to prominence and great success in the 1930s on the back of a manager who had been banned for life for financial irregularities at Leeds United and a dodgy owner who was later found guilty of embezzlement and fraud. Then in the 90s they received massive investment from Danny Fiszman - this man a true and admirable Gooner fan, who wanted to enable them to compete with Manchester United, but who, nevertheless, sold his shares to Stan Kroenke in April 2011 at a profit of £117 million. Stan Kroenke certainly doesn't believe in "unlimited funding" or anything like it, not for love of football, its fans or the need for a "level playing field", but simply because the more he spends on the club the less there will be for his own pocket. And, as we all know, Glanville belongs to that closs of pouting, pontificating, moralistic hypocrites that has the perfect mouthpiece in Arsene Wenger, the Shylock of the PL who rips off every club he can to get players but expects Arsenal to get protection from the authorities so that they can pay the lowest wages of any big club but never have to sell anyone.