The Tuesday Club

James

The Up For Grabs boys have changed their name, and have a 'new' podcast.

http://tinyurl.com/4au9dwu
http://twitter.com/#!/yellowbootson

goon

About time.

Biggus

'Arshavin's not like the other players- a fucking idiot you mean.'

😆

Qwiss

Good stuff. I seen Alan tweet about this but didn't know what it was.

kamikaze

was it a copyright issue? i saw theres another arsenal blog called up for grabs now. they switched companies too, so i guess they didntlike management, either.

James

I read it was something to do with them not seeing any money from the app sales etc.

Mirth

Anyone listen to 'Footballistically Arsenal' from the producers of 'It's Up For Grabs Now'?

I did, because Matt Lucas was on the latest episode and he's quite amusing, but it was horrible. Never mind that we beat Barcelona, they spent half the podcast discussing Fabregas leaving Arsenal in the summer, how we probably won't win the league and lose comprehensively in the second leg and to top it off they weren't entirely sure how the CL draw for the Q/F works.

Tuesday Club's brilliant though, frequently makes me laugh out loud. Quite impressive at how popular it is given that it's an Arsenal podcast.

I also download 'Arsenal Fans' Forum' podcast with Tom Watt who I quite like. Not as funny or entertaining but there's always a journalist and callers making some half decent points. Helps pass the time while travelling anyway.

Biggus

General Mirth wrote:
Anyone listen to 'Footballistically Arsenal' from the producers of 'It's Up For Grabs Now'?

I did, because Matt Lucas was on the latest episode and he's quite amusing, but it was horrible. Never mind that we beat Barcelona, they spent half the podcast discussing Fabregas leaving Arsenal in the summer, how we probably won't win the league and lose comprehensively in the second leg and to top it off they weren't entirely sure how the CL draw for the Q/F works.

Ah a Biggus perspective then......😃

Ricky1985

Listened to latest Tuesday Club podcast, haven't listened for a long while now. I think the 3 of them were going way over the top about Barcelona, sounded like ITV. A little embarrassing I thought. And that "T" is rather annoying. I can't believe he got angry because a few blokes at the game blacked themselves up and wore a blonde wig/beard in tribute to Alex Song. Am I missing something? In what way is that offensive?

Keith's a funny guy though, and from Walthamstow, bet I know him or know someone he knows.

Captain

Black people of a certain age find that sort of thing exceedingly offensive.

Tony Montana

What age Captain?

Mirth

Biggus wrote:
General Mirth wrote:
Anyone listen to 'Footballistically Arsenal' from the producers of 'It's Up For Grabs Now'?

I did, because Matt Lucas was on the latest episode and he's quite amusing, but it was horrible. Never mind that we beat Barcelona, they spent half the podcast discussing Fabregas leaving Arsenal in the summer, how we probably won't win the league and lose comprehensively in the second leg and to top it off they weren't entirely sure how the CL draw for the Q/F works.

Ah a Biggus perspective then......😃

😆 Weren't there plans to launch an Arsenal-Mania podcast? You should put yourself forward!

I was probably being too harsh on them and Matt Lucas did name drop some Arsenal players which was interesting.

Captain

30+ just about covers it. I'm sure some people younger than that also find it offensive but a smaller percentage perhaps.

Ricky1985

Why though? In that context, I just don't get it.

Captain

I'm not interested in having a discussion about this but over a period of time, context has no meaning.

Tony Montana

White people impersonating black people has a history Ricky.

The intention here may be harmless but it reminds black people that back in the day it was supposed to take the piss. It's understandable why many black people don't like it because you are never sure what the intention is. Whatever you think about blacking up, there is no doubt that people still do it in racist ways no matter which way you try to spin it. Off the top of my head Fernando Alonso's fans a couple of years ago blacked up at a Grand Prix and wrote on their T-shirts, 'Hamilton's family'. That is disgusting.

Burnwinter

Spot on Tony - there's no way for it to be "just a joke" because no one can tell if the person running the blackface gag is just a naive prat, or is actually blowing a dog whistle for all the racists out there.

Ricky1985

Hmmm, each to their own I guess. I just think in this instance, it's a bit of fun, not meant to hurt anyone.

Captain

Do you think it would have been any less obvious and fun if they had just elected to wear a curly blonde wig and stuck on blonde beard (cheers)?

Ricky1985

You mean "beard" right mate?

I had considered that when T on the podcast was moaning about it, but I think without the blacking up part it would not have been obvious.