Thursday, May 12, 2011

Osama bin Laden in Highbury

One of the songs that sing the Arsenal fans in the stands says, "Osama, woah, woah / Osama, woah-waoh / he's hiding in Kabul, / he loves the 'Arsenul'!". It's a song that Bin Laden's death gives more topical, and not hiding in Afghanistan but in Pakistan it matters little, even the most sophisticated GPS is often wrong.

Sufficient to change the tense for it to last for decades: "Osama, woah, woah / Osama, woah-waoh / He Was hiding in Kabul, / I loved the 'Arsenul'!". Arsenal sympathies awake. They are (or were) Arsenal Kevin Costner, Fidel Castro, Queen Mother (RIP), Joan of Sagar, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Spike Lee, Chloe Sevigny ...

It was hard not to fall in love with this club playing in one of the world's most discreet stages: rectangular, unpretentious, occupying only a few islands of buildings between very wide streets are not the working class district of Highbury. The British press said these days the book by Adam Robinson, Bin Laden: behind the mask of terror, where the author explains that in the nineties when Bin Laden was living in London, had gone to see the team's matches where he now plays Cesc Fabregas.

Whether you like during the meetings in 1993 and in 1994 made him win the Cup Winners Cup to his eldest son bought him a jersey with the name of Ian Wright on the back. We love to know that criminals are human inclinations, and be a follower of a football club is. Know that Hitler was fond of bowling, and at his home in the Alps was a field.

Hitler was not interested in football a lot. It was only one game in his life: he that pitted Germany and Norway in the 1936 Olympics, and that Germany lost to his great irritation. But Hitler tried to promote to Hertha Berlin, and become the club's regime, and he did for a perverse reason: Hertha was in a working class neighborhood (Wedding) who had always voted Communist.

Hertha Hitler was for bitching, but Hertha never became Hitler. The relationship between Stalin and football do not know much. Soviet founding group was Trotsky who liked football. Stalin was fond of darts and in the sport, his masterstroke was to replace a dart by an ice pick, place it in the hands of Ramon Mercader and tell that to ensure the coup, held tight and did not launch.

Instead, Mussolini himself liked football. He was outspoken supporter of Lazio, and was often in the stands of the stadium. Your ideas keep it even now fascist radicals club, Nord Curve. And we could continue until after tomorrow, speaking of terrorists and dictators love for the sport of football: from Franco, for example, and your favorite club.

But what shall we say of both that do not already know everyone?

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