Comments on: Anton: Arrogant or Hilarious?

By: DevoDevo

DevoDevo — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:18:49 +0000

Re; the ratings – why not throw them open to us great unwashed each week and find the average for each player?

Just a thought.

By: Carlos Tabrez

Carlos Tabrez — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:13:54 +0000

…that’s fair Iain. It’s just that in the ratings you should give them a deserved score i.e judge them all on a “call ‘em how I see ‘em” scale rather than letting favouritism get involved.

I mean if someone has a good game then they deserve to get a good rating. For example, from your FULHAM game ratings it seemed that NOBLE put in a almost flawless performance and BOA MORTE was playing with two right feet. After watching the match, though NOBLE did play well he made a number of errors and BOA MORTE on the other hand worked his backside off.

In your comments, having and talking about your favourites is fine – it’s what brings debate….I just think in the ratings you can be a bit more fair on some of the guys. Thanks

By: Iain Dale

Iain Dale — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:05:43 +0000

Carlos, is there a fan in the country who doesn’t have their favoutites?!!

Yes, Noble is my favourite player. And you;re right, I am not a fan of Boa Morte or Ljungberg. You are wrong to say Anton is in my not so favourties list. If anything I would include him in my favourties list.

By: Carlos Tabrez

Carlos Tabrez — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:57:12 +0000

ANTONS 2nd half response to CURBISHLEYS half time rollicking against FULHAM is all you need to know about him. Did he sulk? No, he came out put in a performance and scored the winning goal. Doesn’t sound like a spoilt baby bentley boy to me.

I think Iain has his favourites (UPSON, NOBLE) and his notso-favourites (BOA MORTE, LJUNDBERG, FERDINAND).

By: mac

mac — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:21:09 +0000

Re your update: I never for one minute saw it as an attack on Anton.

Footballers do have a habit of coming out with slightly oblique comments on various subjects, which for the most part, are usually hilarious which is why Iain highlighted it.

I have a feeling Anton was being tongue in cheek and good on him for that. He knows Michael Jordan is a legend and that he’s a million miles off that status, which is why he says the message is his most treasured possession.

By: Iain Dale

Iain Dale — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:56:28 +0000

Steve, as I said above, my comments on spelling were related to the whole matchday programme and not related to Anton. There were no spelling errors in his article.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:55:58 +0000

The topic was interpreted as read . You also thought it funny to mock his spelling ability, which is a blatant attempt at Humiliation. I would have honestly expected more from someone of your standing.

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:53 +0000

Iain: to be fair to you I don’t think you were having a go at Anton per se, but your headline does infer as much even though you subsequently don’t follow through in the same vein. Arrogant or hilarious, you ask. Which kind of implies Anton’s either egocentric or to be laughed at (though I accept that’s not what you meant).

Well, Anton’s not arrogant on account of what Michael Jordan wrote, that’s not his fault. Is what Michael Jordan wrote funny? Yes, it’s a privilige for a global sports star to meet the Pope, a President or any Prime Minister bar our current one you’d imagine, but little old Anton from little old West Ham? Well that is funny.

By: Plaistow54

Plaistow54 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:21:19 +0000

I wish i was 23 & could say something like that. It’s a bit tongue in cheek really as in speeling mistakes. What i really get from what he said is that Michael Jordan is a Hammers supporter & was overjoyed to meet someone from the squad. Why not ? Ferdinand was told to play football & he has. We should keep him at the end of the year. His brother always gets a good reception & i would hope we would try to keep at least one of them. Someone should proof read the programs. Someone who can speel.

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:41:22 +0000

I think we can safely say Iain has a different view to the majority on this one, I’ve never seen Anton act like a little sellout rudeboy such as ego-joker.

Give the lad our backing, he’s one of ours for christ sake, not to mention Rio’isk on his day, well, the same in his brother in almost every sense with the occasional lapse in concentration.

Why a select few of our fans do this I’ll never know, articles like this DO massively influance a significant percentage of the clubs followers, so given a few bad performances this will be one of the bits of trash talk used against the player, how is any of this badgering players from any point of view helping us achieve what we all want?? please answer me that.