Attila on the wireless, solving the world's financial crisis

[Hungry Joe]

You think this country would be better off without the jobs, tax revenue and foreign earnings created by our banking sector?

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money”.

Anyway, if you want to carp further please do so in rhyme or on another thread.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying isn't it

But to indulge you....

There was a young banker from Leigh
Who was 'investing' in his girl by the sea
She said "stop your asset stripping"
"My panties they are ripping"
"You've already shafted the country, you ain't f***ing me?"

And as for 'carping', pointing out that bankers are hardly top of most people's Christmas card list right now is hardly carping is it? Don't be so sensitive dear.

 

[Cian]

Nick "destroyer of football clubs" Leeson. And banks, but that doesn't matter as much...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Maybe one should listen to Arkela when it comes to financial advice.

He seems to have sustained a relatively handsome life by selling poor music and dodgy rhymes (unless his wife wears the skin tight trousers and puts food on the table).

 

[Worthingite]

Shamefully, I didn't know much about Attila other than his association with Fans Utd (naughty JCL I know), just been on his website and I have to question why the club has this cack wizard as our "poet in residence".

I can write edgy shit
With no coherance
And be a bit self depreciating (because I eat a lot of pies!!)
And make no....f***ing....sense.....at all.

See? Can I have his job for a bit please?

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

So what you are saying is:


For you it will only get more rough,
If we take our noses out of the trough.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Shamefully, I didn't know much about Attila other than his association with Fans Utd (naughty JCL I know), just been on his website and I have to question why the club has this cack wizard as our "poet in residence".

I can write edgy shit
With no coherance
And be a bit self depreciating (because I eat a lot of pies!!)
And make no....f***ing....sense.....at all.

See? Can I have his job for a bit please?

Christ. Is he our poet in residence?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Maybe one should listen to Arkela when it comes to financial advice.

He seems to have sustained a relatively handsome life by selling poor music and dodgy rhymes (unless his wife wears the skin tight trousers and puts food on the table).

There is a bloke who has made a living out of the spoken word and his music. He has travelled the world. He has played a leading role in the fight for our club.

Plus he remains a good man.

 

[Worthingite]

Christ. Is he our poet in residence?

According to his website!

 

[The Spanish]

there was an old punk from southwick
whose job was which real ale to pick
like that bore gary clail
'gainst the banks he did rail
but he sounded a bit of ...sincere yet muisguided bloke on the subject.

 

[Hamilton]

I don't think Atilla is anti-bankers. He is anti bad bankers. What's wrong with that? He's not naive, he just wants a sea change. By all means debate that, but don't immediately polarise the thread as that gets us nowhere.

Why people are bashing him I have no idea. The guy fought for this club and will continue to fight for fans.

It stuns me. More and more people are too quick to jump to insults and negative remarks. What is it about our culture that encourages people to slag others off so quickly?

 

[Lokki 7]

I don't think Atilla is anti-bankers. He is anti bad bankers.

By Jove why didn't we think of that? So he HAS solved the global financial crisis! HOORAH!

 

[Hamilton]

By Jove why didn't we think of that? So he HAS solved the global financial crisis! HOORAH!

No, obviously not, but you seem to want to silence him just for having an opinion. I'm interested in your opinion too, but I'm not about to slag you off for having one by Jove!

 

[Sussex on Leith]

There is a bloke who has made a living out of the spoken word and his music. He has travelled the world. He has played a leading role in the fight for our club.

Plus he remains a good man.

EXACTLY this. Whether or not you like his music and poetry (I do) or agree with his politics (I mostly do), he is Albion through and through, he has done a huge amount to raise awareness of the fight for Falmer (including a top 20 single that got loads of media coverage, but plenty more), and his politics are based on a genuine belief in fairness, human decency and the common good. If you want to see the polar opposite to that, check out the utter bile in the comments section under the Billy Bragg/Telegraph article that Albumen posted earlier:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8247449/Billy-Bragg-village-takes-a-firebrand-to-its-heart.html

And last but not least, in "Roll Up for the Donkey Derby", he wrote the best and funniest Palace-bashing song of all time. I'll take that over the questionable delights of "Wash your mouth out son..." anytime.

(Not posted on here for a few years but have started spending a bit of time on NSC again recently. Wasn't planning to start posting again but the unwarranted grief on here aimed at one of our own has got me slightly narked.)

Sorry my post isn't written in rhyme, by the way, but unfortunately I couldn't be arsed. Feel free to flame away.

 

[rool]

Christ. Is he our poet in residence?

I would be surprised if that is still the case. That seems very much part of the last regime and doesn't fit, IMO, with the new corporate Albion.

 

[Storer 68]

Sir John Gieve is actually the former deputy governor of the Bank of England - he had the brains to get out before all the recent shit hit the fan. I remember him when he was plain John, and my central defensive partner in my college team. Arsenal fan.

makes nice suits!

 

[Simster]

And last but not least, in "Roll Up for the Donkey Derby", he wrote the best and funniest Palace-bashing song of all time. I'll take that over the questionable delights of "Wash your mouth out son..." anytime.

Oh please. That "song" sums him up, and did so even at the time - massively out of touch and boringly irrelevant. Our club had the begging buckets out and on a fund raising CD of Tom Hark, someone indulged him in the least funny, most poorly timed attempt at laughing at our arch rivals. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to try and take the piss out of Palace at a time when our club was a mess and they were consistently challenging for Premiership promotion? But even that might have been forgiveable if he had recorded some spiced up terrace song that we could all empathise with, instead of some truly shit self indulgent twaddle about a result that only served to remind most of us that they went on to reach the cup final by beating the same team later that season.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

"Roll Up for the Donkey Derby", he wrote the best and funniest Palace-bashing song of all time. I'll take that over the questionable delights of "Wash your mouth out son..." anytime.

No its been superceded by THAT Groupon chant which was a work of genius from our very own Buzzer.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Shame this has descended into yet another 'let's slate Attila' thread. Can't people just accept he's a bit like Marmite politically and artistically speaking, and even if he's not to your taste that he's still done far more for this club in terms of direct action than the vast majority of us. And to those really twisting the knife - just take a moment to consider how you'd feel reading that kind of stuff about you every time your name cropped up on here.

 

[The Spanish]

Shame this has descended into yet another 'let's slate Attila' thread. Can't people just accept he's a bit like Marmite politically and artistically speaking, and even if he's not to your taste that he's still done far more for this club in terms of direct action than the vast majority of us. And to those really twisting the knife - just take a moment to consider how you'd feel reading that kind of stuff about you every time your name cropped up on here.

oh come in its just he is funny. he is not your run of the mill bloke. he is called atilla and writes poems about russians at the henley regatta. if he didnt want people to take the piss a bit he wouldnt have boldy strove down his unorthdox path in life for so long.

anyway he will be on in a minute insisting that he only has milliseconds to stay on the board as he is so frenetically busy, do a quick defence of himself as he must be able to do in his sleep he has been doing it since the year dot, and then *puff*. gone again. dont worry about him mate.

 

[Common as Mook]

oh come in its just he is funny. he is not your run of the mill bloke. he is called atilla and writes poems about russians at the henley regatta. if he didnt want people to take the piss a bit he wouldnt have boldy strove down his unorthdox path in life for so long.

anyway he will be on in a minute insisting that he only has milliseconds to stay on the board as he is so frenetically busy, do a quick defence of himself as he must be able to do in his sleep he has been doing it since the year dot, and then *puff*. gone again. dont worry about him mate.

Welcome back, by the way.