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UEFA’s head of the Executive Office is guest speaker at Arsenal Supporters AGM

By Tony Attwood

Arsenal Independent Supporters Association (AISA) has announced that at its AGM the guest speaker will be Alex Phillips, UEFA’s head of the Executive Office.

I’ll give the detail of what the Executive Office is, in a moment, but without even going into that, it is a great coup for AISA to get Alex Phillips to the meeting.  He is a man right at the heart of the sort of UEFA issues we debate – most notably the financial doping regulations.

For myself (and writing here personally, not in my capacity as a committee member of AISA) I am really hoping to be able to ask a pertinent question or two about just how likely it is that financial transgressors such as Manchester City are going to be debarred from Europe.

If you are not a member of AISA, you really ought to be – and details are at the end of this piece.  The AGM is obviously open to members only.

Anyway, back to the meeting. The AISA AGM usually does have a speaker of significance to talk to the assembled throng, (last year Arsenal director gave a really interesting talk which revealed quite a few hidden truths about the players and their relationship with the club) and I am really anticipating this could be one of the best yet.

So here’s the run down on UEFA and where Alex Phillips fits in.

The UEFA Congress, the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Executive Office form the hub of UEFA’s activities at the highest level. It is at these levels that key sporting and political decisions of UEFA are taken.

The Congress is Europe’s football parliament, and the Executive Committee has the power to make decisions on all matters which do not fall within the jurisdiction of the Congress or any other organ. The Executive Committee also manages UEFA as an overall organisation.

The Executive Office of which Alex Phillips is the head provides the support to the UEFA president, Michel Platini, and general secretary, Gianni Infantino.

Moving back to AISA – the prime work of AISA (and this is my summary, not an official line) is to represent the feelings and views of fans to the club and to work to support Arsenal on and off the field.  Put another way, it runs campaigns and supports the team.

This is a multifaceted approach and covers everything from policing to the food and drink in the stadium, and many of these involve on-going discussions and debates.  The meetings and discussions often don’t make the headlines but do allow fans to have their views made known to the club, and ensures that change happens.

Two projects that I am involved in are “Arsenal History” which among other things is campaigning to have more art (following the development of the Arsenal Wall, the canons and the ARSENAL stones on the south bridge) outside the ground.  We’re also uncovering all the errors in the traditional telling of Arsenal’s history (see www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk) and hoping to publish a book in conjunction with Arsenal on the Woolwich Arsenal story.

I’m also involved in the “Voice of Arsenal” project through which members of AISA are asked to put forward their own personal concerns to the club.  I’m just in the process of putting two issues that have been raised about ticketing, to the chief executive of the club, and we’re hoping that we will be able to influence the club’s thinking on this point.  Members will be getting details of this at the AGM and shortly on the web site.

Arsenal Independent Supporters Association

September 30th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, Supporters | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)

Greetins poms: Arsène’s huge down under!

Arsène’s huge down under

By Bruce

G’day all you whingeing Poms from the land Down Under, a paradise of amber nectar, aerial ping-pong and white pointers!!

Just stumbled upon your site as I was googlin’ Arse, now don’t get yer knickers in a knot, it is strictly research for my own gratification like and I red on a bit.

Just got back in from the pub with a gut-load of piss, been flat out like a lizard, drinking. Minding my own business watching Kylie the barmaid doling out the four X, great arse Kylie, when she walks looks like two dwarfs fighting in a sack.

Bloody oath I bumped into  to some tiny blow-in dill , bit of a raw prawn if you ask me looked like a good root and a fart would kill him. Strange looking mongrel, all pale with a head on him like a sucked mango. Strangest thing, he had a picture of a cock on his shirt.

Well blow me I thought, I’ll be buggered if I turn me back on this wombat. Looked as trustworthy as a Pakistani cricketer in bookies if you ask me.

Could tell for sure he was as cunning as a twitchy shit house rat and not enough brains to give him-self a headache. He was as miserable as a bastard on Father’s Day.  But just to be hospitable like I lent him an ear while I tucked into me Heart Starter..

Strewth that fella could talk, even for a two pot screamer, I swear he never stopped yakking even when I strode off to the dunny to siphon the python.

Started bitching like a love sick sheep on a drovers holiday about some fella up in Pomgolia who manages the Arse who is dead set doin real well for himself and his work mates.

Last time I met a bloke like him, was when I was burgled, took nothing of value but emptied the rubbish bin and me dog got pregnant.

Anyways, I was just finishing me 12th schooner when he’s calling you Arse’s ‘about as useful as tits on a bull’ and how his ‘Harry has you by the short and curlies’ and it’s as obvious as a shag on a rock, youse blokes will end up ‘skint in the old trophy department’.

No worries mate I said, I go and have a Captain Cook at this as the chance of him shouting a round looked as scarce as rocking horse shit.

So I threw a couple dozen tinnies in the old Holden Ute, for medicinal purposes only and shot through back to the farm.

Made it home in double quick time with a bit of the old lead foot and boy was I stoked, thought the missus had left me there for a minute.

But after a moment or two I remembered the old ambo driver had taken the Sheila to the hossie.

Recovering from a fair dinkum sex session where she was left walking bandy legged you ask…..?

Na silly cow burned herself on the Barbie, roasting a few snags and shrimps for me tea, so I reckon its starvation rations ‘til  brekkie when she gets out. I am so hungry I could bloody well eat the horse and chase the rider.

So here I am sat in me budgie smugglers as popular with the wife as a brown eyed mullet in the backyard pool checking you blokes out.

Well after considerable effort, reading ‘til I thought I would chuck, I reckon the bloke was so full of shit his eyes were brown. All that yak about you blokes being lower than a centipede’s scrotum was just a snow job.

The guts of it as I see it, is this.

You got a couple quid in the bank.

The Manager is spot on.

The competition is stuffed.

Get your slackers to go walk about.

Team is looking spunky.

Stop sooking like a sheep-shagged Skippy in a pink singlet and go and win.

I’m off down the TAB and put a couple a bucks on it.

Don’t let the bastards drag you down, I’ll check in again to see how youse get on.

Bruce

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September 30th, 2010 | Category: All Tomorrow's Parties, Arsenal stories | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)