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Sloth loves Chunk

New member
Nov 14, 2003
111
Feck off

'We do love our Premiership here at ZOO, but the small, Torquay United-sized plankton of football are just as important to the game as the leviathans from London, Manchester and the Mersey.'

Patronising ****s. Yeah, fair enough they're doing a petition but it's just these sort of 'football' fans I dispise. Nouveau riche armchair fuckwits who have no idea about what football means.

I may have been on the lash but I can't f***ing stand this sort of 'sympathy' dished out by the mis-informed.

I understand what they're saying about the smaller club being just as important as the corporations but f***ing 'plankton'. ****s.

I'm off to buy the Pop Idol Party mag to cheer myself up.

I need some Horlicks
 










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portlock seagull

Well-known member
Jul 28, 2003
17,776
Sloth loves chunck you really are a twat. You have no idea about the back breaking effort that 2 Albion die hards, one of which is me, that have skillyfully negotiated and written (in the style aimed at this readership) the article and got onto the ZOO website and possibly this weeks hardcopy edition (deadline was thursday night). You presume Zoo magazine have ever heard of BHA FC until the editor was met face to face (and he's a f****** busy man so that was a negotiation in its self) yesterday All publicity is good publicity and sometimes to you have to make concessions. If you worked in the media (and I'm not talking about your paper round, boy) then you may have the slightest clue.

For the record both of us with 4 others met last night to discuss what we could do in addition to the hundreds of letters we've got colleagues at work to do, friends, family, chase up calls, to other media contacts we have. Consequently we weve been handing out leaflets we've knocked up and printed last night on trains in London, stuffing newspapers at newsagents in Berkshire and London from 07.15 this morning. So please, please just F*** off with your negative vibe and get off your arse and do something positive.

ZOO Magazine have done us a massive favour. Hang your head in shame.

To the top!
 






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eastlondonseagull

Well-known member
Jan 15, 2004
13,385
West Yorkshire
Well said Portlock! Everyone has to do their bit or the club's f**ked. Last night's meeting was f*cking great - use whatever contacts you've got, that's the only way forward. People are taking notice and that's what matters.

We must fight for the Albion! Not just sit back and moan.
 






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Sloth loves Chunk

New member
Nov 14, 2003
111
Portlock Seagull,

You obviously didn't read all of my message. As I did with 'plankton' you have overreacted and gone off the deep end.

Thanks for your insight. Insight that you obviously have and I don't. For your information I work in the media and do understand time constraints etc etc. I am editor of a football website, have edited and written Albion fanzines and been published in the local and national press.

I can tell you wrote the piece because of your patronising reply to me.

I wasn't moaning, I was exercising my right of free speech. I just saw plankton and reacted, which is my right. Trying to belittle me in your rant has achieved nothing except for making you feel better.

As for getting off my arse and doing something yesterday I emailed over a hundred football supporting friends with a pro forma letter and petition link.

My message was written at half one this morning after a session in London where I almost bored everyone to tears explaining our current predicament.

Sitting behind your keyboard and calling me a twat because I don't like my club being referred to as 'plankton' is pretty sad.

How the f*** was I supposed to know an Albion fan wrote that?

Granted, all good publicity is good publicity at the moment. It's just I can't stand the percieved 'little brother' 'little club' mentality that all too often prevails in the national media. Every professional football club is equally as important as a another.

'To the top'. Grow up, mate.

I am doing 'my bit' as are countless others. The difference is I don't go round calling people 'twats' and 'boy' if they have the temerity to slightly cricticise something I have done. Stop being so bloody reactionary and take it with a pinch of salt.

I was once a paperboy so you did get something correct.
 












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Benzhiyi

New member
Feb 8, 2004
34
Re: Feck off

Sloth loves Chunk said:
'We do love our Premiership here at ZOO, but the small, Torquay United-sized plankton of football are just as important to the game as the leviathans from London, Manchester and the Mersey.'

Patronising ****s. Yeah, fair enough they're doing a petition but it's just these sort of 'football' fans I dispise. Nouveau riche armchair fuckwits who have no idea about what football means.

I may have been on the lash but I can't f***ing stand this sort of 'sympathy' dished out by the mis-informed.

I understand what they're saying about the smaller club being just as important as the corporations but f***ing 'plankton'. ****s.

I'm off to buy the Pop Idol Party mag to cheer myself up.

I need some Horlicks
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I can't help but reply to this, and hope that I won't incure your wrath further.

My name's Ben Wilson and I'm the Web Editor on ZOO. I wrote the offending opening paragraph on our site. As you've probably guessed from the username, I also happen to be a Palace fan - not an 'armchair fuckwit' who has no idea about football, but a fan who has seen us close to extinction and who follows his team up and down the country hoping we never see the dark days of administration again.

There are many Palace fans who'd like to see Brighton go down the toilet. I don't. I enjoy our rivalry, and hence I made the decision to put your campaign on our website. And the plankton reference is the exact point of your campaign - that while armchair fans see us as small fish who can't compare to the big boys, we're more important than that, regardless of where we stand on the footballing food chain.

If ManUre or Arsenal or Chelski wanted a new ground the sycophantic government would bow down and give in, but it's precisely because they see Brighton and Palace and the rest as plankton that they're ignoring your need for Falmer. That's why I used plankton as a reference, because to most Premiership fans our clubs are seen as the shitty little nothings you described, and it's time it changed.

Hope that clears it up.

Best of luck with your attempts to get the ruling overturned, and I mean that genuinely - if I didn't give a shit I'd never have put the campaign up in the first place.

Best wishes,

Ben
 
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Sloth loves Chunk

New member
Nov 14, 2003
111
Ben,

Thanks ever so much for your reply, mate. I was hammered when I wrote my initial post, and am a bit now. I now understand why you referred to us as 'plankton'.

Condescending reporting gets on my tits and I've always fought for justice when it comes to 'us against them.' I got on my soapbox 'cos I'm not a twat and was just reacting to a phrase I wasn't particularly keen on.

Anyways, Ben. Keep up the good work and thanks for taking the time to put the record straight.

You're on a bit of a jammy run aren't you?!! ;)
 


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