Manchester United fan? Liverpool fan? Or are you just a clueless idiot?!
It is a Public Holiday in England today. You can tell just by looking out of the window and seeing how heavily it is raining!
The English football season is very nearly over and for us in the UK we have a pressure free Euro 2008 to look forward to without any of our teams being good enough to take part. There is one more game to watch. It is the big one. The League Two play-off final between Rochdale and Stockport. Even I might give that one a miss! Actually, no I won’t.
As it is a holiday and also the end of my first season as a full-time football writer I thought it might be nice to take a light hearted look at some of the comments made on my articles on this site over the last few months.
My articles have received many supportive comments, many nice comments and a majority of them have been constructive, thoughtful comments about the debate I have attempted to begin. However, none of those comments are funny! I’d like to share my particular favourites with you so that you can see why I continue to write with a smile on my face:
“but please be more creative in writing fresh articles…. Sick and tired of hearing the same thing over and over again…”
“Michael Owen is “England’s best striker”? Bollocks - Rooney is.”
“Don’t be bloody stupid! Only a tunnel visioned Man U fan would even suggest something so stupid!”
“Who cares?”
“What utter garbage”
“This is a ridiculous article to say the least.”
“You are quite clearly the scum of the earth”
“This article is a load of rubbish”
“Is this supposed to be funny? Try harder.”
“Poor article. a case of sour grapes.”
“This “funny” article written by a rag is an excuse for having a pop at City by making a point about Thaksin Shinawatra. I suspect Graham Fisher knows as much about football as he claims TS does.”
“What a biased piece of tosh this article really is.”
“What a load of balls”
My personal top five:
5. “Another note to the author - go die !!!!! you are sooo obtuse it really is unfair on your parents. you are a miscreant and plainly, mind numbingly dumb!!!!!!!”
4. “Mr. Graham fisher if you got nothing better to do that is not our problem, please do not write rubbish articles”
3. “What a load of sh*t. In all fairness, you sound like one of these idiots who has never played football in his life”
2. “Proves what a biased, clueless idiot you are.”
And my personal favourite and winner for season 2007-08 is a simple question:
1. “Are you gay graham?”
I have been accused of being a Manchester United fan, Liverpool fan, Arsenal fan and Manchester City fan. I have been told that I am clearly biased towards to my team, who could of course be any of the above. Actually it is none of them. I am a Watford fan. Anything I write about the top clubs might be absolute rubbish but it is never biased!
I love everything about football and one of those things is the passion and love and anger that it engenders in really committed fans. I spend a big chunk of my life watching, writing about, talking about and reading about football. Other people’s opinions make me really cross until I realise that they are just opinions. Not right or wrong, just opinions. It doesn’t stop me arguing with what others say though!
I would like to thank you all for your comments which at least means you are reading what I write and being compelled to make a comment. That is the point after all. We all want to talk about football and we’re never going to all agree.
I look forward to writing some more biased rubbish about Euro 2008 although I’m not sure who I can be accused of supporting in that competition!
Keep reading and keep commenting. Long may it continue.
Graham Fisher is a professional football writer and writes for Soccerlens and SoccerNews, amongst other websites.
My top 5:
5. this is a ridiculous article, to say the least…are you gay?
(combo sounds better, heh)
4. Mr Graham Fisher, if you have nothing better to do it’s not our problem, please don’t write rubbish articles
priceless…
3. You are quite clearly the scum of the earth
the idiot who wrote it probably called you a cunt at first, then thought he’d write a more reasoned comment, and came up with this. quite clearly very difficult work.
2. Is this supposed to be funny? Try harder
Ok, the rabbit runs into the wall that he doesn’t know is there, you see…
1. What a load of balls
The pinnacle of human expression…
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Good to see that you’re developing a thick skin Mr Fisher - you’ll need it around here
Write a proper article for once.
lol.I think ur a good writer mr.fisher
I really think this is a prizewinner. The bit about being obtuse is hilarious.
5. “Another note to the author - go die !!!!! you are sooo obtuse it really is unfair on your parents. you are a miscreant and plainly, mind numbingly dumb!!!!!!!â€
you just love the attention you are getting from writing stupid biased articles and declared blatantly in your article you are not going to change. what kind of a professional writer are you? its your responsibility to write proper articles even if your work gets noticed or not instead of saying since u are getting famous for writing stupidity you are going to keep on with it. wake up dude. be matured for once. if you insist on doing it your way then join the circus or write for MAD magazine im sure you will get alot of attention there. [comment deleted by moderator]
Nice one Graham.
haha you should have mentioned who wrote them!! Its nice to get a more light hearted article
nice 1
you just love the attention you are getting from writing stupid biased articles and declared blatantly in your article you are not going to change. what kind of a professional writer are you? its your responsibility to write proper articles even if your work gets noticed or not instead of saying since u are getting famous for writing stupidity you are going to keep on with it. wake up dude. be matured for once. if you insist on doing it your way then join the circus or write for MAD magazine im sure you will get alot of attention there.
(hey fisher,i thought you treated all comments light heartedly, then why delete this comment (above)from the page?not as thick skinned as u wanted us to believe arent you? idiotic clown
Abba’s much funnier than graham. Can he get to do the weekly comedy article instead?
WHY NOT? anything is better than the horse dung written by this Fisher clown!!!who knows maybe even the faggorts who support their faggort king Fisher may come to their senses after reading a few lines of what we call a genuine football article
rofl…grahams funny…keep t up man, love ur column-type articles.
“Another note to the author - go die !!!!! you are sooo obtuse it really is unfair on your parents. you are a miscreant and plainly, mind numbingly dumb!!!!!!!â€
LOL!!!!
abba,
I am sorry you feel so strongly about my articles which are simply meant to be light hearted. If you don’t find them at all funny then don’t read them.
I’m struggling to see why you should be so angry and apparently hate me so much just for trying to make people smile?
For your info, I don’t delete comments, that is the responsibility of the moderator of the site.
There’s only one way to handle ABBA, so here goes (Remembering that he’s a Liverpool fan):
He bitches like a ‘Dancing Queen’
Every night as he falls asleep he quietly sings to himself: ‘I have a dream’
As he looks enviously at Man Utd he can’t help humming: ‘Money. Money. Money’
He thinks Gerrard is a ‘Super Trooper’
He looks at the players Man U and Chelsea sign and hums: ‘Take a Chance on Me’
He has to admit that every time Liverpool play Man U they meet their ‘Waterloo.’
And at the end of every season he cries into his bib as he sings: ‘The winner takes it all’