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Friday, Sep 5th 2008


My Grandmother Does Not Need Lessons in Sucking Off Eggs, Thank You!

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You Are Going Nowhere, Sonny Jim. Stitch That!

Did you read in the crappy English newspapers about how the atheist communist leader of Manchester United, Sir Alex-Fergulson, has been making the disparaging remarks about Real Madrid, accusing it of moral bankruptcy because of its success during the glorious Franco period, a time when, he seems to think, the Spanish people lived in slavery? Is complete and utter hypocrisy and also a big disgrace!

Everyone in football who know anything about anything will have heard about the torture techniques used by Alex-Fergulson and the devoted red scum hordes of Manchester. Their Carrington labour camp is surrounded by high fences and barbed wire, and no journalists or human rights lawyers are allowed inside to see what goes on in there. Is only thanks to conscience-stricken investivagitative journalists with long-zoom-photo lenses that we have the pictures you see here. And as you can see in the picture above, players are made to wear unsightly uniforms, have their heads shaved in humiliating styles, and then are physically assaulted by the camp commandante in order to destroy their personality, self-esteem and capacity for independent thought. Everyone already knew about the famous “hairdryer” treatment that players receive, as well as the high-decibel incomprehensible screaming meant to wear down resistance. But here is even more evidence of horrific practices: Last week, Paul Scholes gave the ball away twice in the second half of a friendly match against Glentoran. Here he is today:

And they say to him, “Do it again, and next time it will be your legs!”

What is more, and I do not know if it is stupidity or wilful ignorance of history on the part of Alex-Fergulson, but when it comes to issues of morality, he should ask himself this: Who was it who flew a civilian airliner into a nonmilitary target during peacetime? Was it Real Madrid? I don’t not think it was!

Alex-Fergulson has no escuse for ignorance. All he needs to do is ask his close friend Bobby Moore. He was there.

So don’t go giving us lectures on how to conduct ourselves in a Christian and ethical manner, Sir, if that is your real name. If it wasn’t for Generalisimo Franco’s crusade against the barbarian hordes of atheist red scum, you’d be speaking in English today!

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