Burn Them!

Some grey clouds are hanging over Funk Pie towers this week following two events that have left me seething a little bit. Firstly, there was last night's debacle at Th'Emirates, secondly, the whole ridiculous Brand n' Ross story that has somehow been manipulated (by the Daily Wail) to the top of the headline pile this week.

I'm gonna cover the latter first. This has gone beyond being beyond a joke now, the Daily Wail has finally got its way. I'm really p*ssed off about the whole episode, not least because I've been a regular listener to Brand's show since he started up on BBC6 a few years ago. I realise he's not everyone's cup of tea and I'm not going to eulogise him here as I don't think that's the issue. The facts are that the BBC received just 2 complaints during the show. Two. Then, a week later, the Wail on Sunday filled their front page with the story, called up Matthew Hopkins and the witch hunt commenced. During the week, the headline read "Sack Them"; absolutely bonkers, we let politicians get away with dodgy chats with Russian oligarchs, allow petrol companies to hike up prices whilst oil prices fall and their profits soar, unemployment is increasing, money is scarce, but this, in the opinion of that ridiculous newspaper/agitprop, is the main issue bothering the country this week. Media diversion from a staunchly Tory paper? Ooh, would they?

In a way you could see the whole incident coming, the week before the phone call to Sachs was made, Brand had mentioned/bragged on his show that he'd had all the Satanic Sluts (including Sach's grand-daughter) round his house for a good ol' hot tub party.Furthermore, he's had a few run ins with said paper over stuff written about him in the past.

The broadcast has just evolved into a great big stick to beat brand n'Ross with. Who are these people who are complaining? Have they heard the show before? There's been far worse and arguably more offensive material on there. No doubt the kind of folk who made these complaints would just love to see good clean entertainment from a fluffy world gone by with no swearing, rude gags or any suggestion of controversial subject matter. I'm sure plenty of folk would be offended by late night radio if they chose to listen to it. All this was broadcast post-watershed and is being treated as if it went out during kiddies hour or something, Ridiculous. Sachs has had his apology and his grand-daughter has a few quid in her pocket. Comments from Joe Public on the super-dramatic Sky News site are along the lines of "Ooh, i don't like Ross or Brand - good riddance", "Poor man (Sachs), they should be locked up", "Give me back my licence fee, I say!" , "Has anyone seen my dentures?". We'll probably now be forced to watch re-runs of the Rivers of Blood speech or something with Angela Rippon (not that I'm connected the two).

Ok, over to North London and trying the figure out what the eff happened last night. The whole evening had an aire of inevitability about it; my good friend Rich had texted me at the weekend to say "Can't believe the twitcher has gone to the lane. They'll f*cking beat us on Wednesday. B*stards". Andy Gray had "a feeling", Spudz tails were high and once again, Arsenal proved that their underbelly is softer than Walter the Softie's soft rug collection.

Bentley's goal could've been saved by Almunia, the others we conceded all came about as Arsenal's defence decided to back track and invite the scum shoot from distance, leaving us ruing throwing away 2 points from such a lofty position of superiority, it beggars belief how we didn't win. Grrrrrrrrrr, can't write anymore on this, onto Stoke this Saturday, it's a good job we're so good at coping with high balls over the top, ain't it?