as long as JT hasn’t knocked up Mrs Abrahamovic , I’m sure he’s in the clear.’

Didn’t the last Mrs A. take big Roman to the ‘shit back-rub, you’re history!’ law courts for a few squillion or so?

Not sure whether the mistress then has taken on a new job description yet?

I guess if Mr R. goes wandering again, there’s a job opportunity in consoling the new encumbent for someone or other??

Sigh… I actually feel most Arsenal supporters are turning into ‘Marvin’ these days.

My intent has been to try to focus on the corruption that has spread throughout the game, and the dangers all clubs are in, and I truly meant no disrespect to Derby, or its supporters.

For what it’s worth I think that the plague has eaten through all of football in this country, and a lot of clubs of all sizes – up to the largest – are about to fall to bits.

You’re unlikely to know that the whole tenure at our club of the creeps we quickly dubbed the “3 Amigos” – because part of their money maze involved shady Panamanian financing – actually threatened the very existence of the club at the time.

The Co-op Bank allowed the club to fall into their hands for the princely sum of £3. Spare the jokes – I trust you’re not a Nothingham Florist fan – but along with the corruption you’ve detailed, these cretinous “business doctors” and “directors of football” managed to turn an already dire debt of around £30m into one of around £55m in about 30 months, despite big attendances and fire sales of stars like Huddlestone &, er, Rasiak.

They were eventually hounded out, after direct protests and a fans’ petition to the Bank. After takeover by a local consortium, Wee Billy Krankie produced a one-year promotion miracle sadly built on foundations of sand, from which we’re still recovering – two years after the Rams’ disgraceful capitulation in the Prem.

Squad slashing, loan players & bargain buys are still the medicine, but most of our considerable support has faith in the Second Clough era.

So be very afraid! You should rise above patronising comments like
“Well, you know, Derby, not exactly top league eh?”. Over my 40+ years of watching the Rams’ ups & downs – including 2 League titles now long ago in the heady seventies – I’ve seen some right Rams-Gunners ding-dongs.

The first time I saw your team they lost 5-0 to Mackay, Hector & co – and I trust you also remember the thrilling exploits of Sturridge, Wanchope et al in more recent years. Our weaker teams got hammered, like most others – but the 70s / Smith era DVDs are still available for us crinklies.

I love watching Arsenal and even believe that some London fans acknowledge the existence of civilisation and intelligent football discourse up here in bandit country.

Just keep in touch with RamsTrust and Ramzone and thanks mostly for the summary mention.

Quite apart from the safety issue of you, or a member of your family, being worth £100,000,000, can you imagine the political power a group of these young men could wield in ten or twenty years time?

Certainly, if an extreme right-wing (for example) group needed a financial shot in the arm to set themselves up, I’d suggest they look no further than the local night-club where the Pro-footballers hang-out.

All this money has to go somewhere and, hold on to your hats, ‘cos there’s going to be some real bad stuff ahead.

Genuinely, I wouldn’t swap John Terry’s family background, era or future for all the tea in China.

The word was….

Oh hell, Walter I can’t tell you.

Someone else tell Walter will they? I can’t bring myself even to write the word.

you don’t have to apologize it is your site, it is in the UK so it is up to you to write the things you like them. And this includes the humour you know best.

And I had missed the 42 thing but I can assure you that the other 99 % of your article was more than intresting.

Now next time I go to the library I’m going to look if they have some works of that Wodehouse and Adams… It makes me curious…
But still have a few Arsenal books to read. Nearly finished my second lecture of Making The Arsenal and you know it is even better now. But this is because I’m not a native English speaking person and in a second reading I discovered a lot of new things. Or maybe I’m just a miserable reader….

as long as JT hasn’t knocked up Mrs Abrahamovic , I’m sure he’s in the clear.

Indeed…..it’s almost too convenient that Terry’s misdemeanours have come out now….

or put another way, in Russia if a journalist asks too many questions, I doubt he gets the choice between

1) A cup of plutonium coffe
2) A pellet in the leg
3) A one way trip to a Siberian mine

Maybe the best quote in relation to corruption does indeed come from PG Wodehouse (who I should explain to non-UK based readers was a 20th century writer who wrote the Jeeves stories and many others).

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” It could be true of gambling – and indeed the whole of English football.

He then said that, ‘If I was working for John Terry and the FA striped him of his captaincy, I would recommend that he didn’t sue them’!!!!!!!
Isn’t it amazing that there should even be a hint that he might?

Personally, crumby though the whole Wayne Bridge girlfriend thing is, I think the ‘taking people for a trip round the training ground gig for ten grand’ (for charity, of course) scam was far, far worse.

And did anyone see the Lawrence Dallaghio interview (a Chelsea supporting friend of Terry) where he waxed lyrical about John Terry’s professionalism?
This was the guy who boasted to a reporter, when England rugby captain, of his cocaine taking!!!!

All part of the general malaise which kicked in in about 1970/1971/1972, I’m afraid.
Just off in my time machine to 1957.

Just sent in to me from Gordon gooner:

To a man, the England team have voted to keep John Terry as Captain and for the world cup trip. Since the WAGS have been told they have to stay at home during the world cup no player feels safe leaving him behind!