Let's not pretend his videos are representative of how most black people speak. It's an act, and that's what bothers me. He's going to matches to play up to that completely exaggerated stereotype and further his personal brand and YouTube career, rather than to support the team. That annoys me just as much as the rich white corporates using it as a jolly day out and looking at the fans supporting the side like animals in a zoo.I don't know what anyone has against this guy. Seems passionate in his support of spurs. More so than a lot of people moaning about the way he speaks or asking for subtitles. Or even saying that he'd be understood more by the Arse lot. We live in a multicultural Britain, deal with it. If you're not happy with him being a spurs fan because he's a young black lad using street vernacular piss off and support Chelsea or West Ham.
I'm not a huge fan of the Expressions character and fans using the club to promote themselves. I just felt uncomfortable that the language he uses is looked down upon and seen as somehow more Arsenal than Spurs (albeit jokingly). Why the shock horror that a Spurs fan is using north London slang words?Let's not pretend his videos are representative of how most black people speak. It's an act, and that's what bothers me. He's going to matches to play up to that completely exaggerated stereotype and further his personal brand and YouTube career, rather than to support the team. That annoys me just as much as the rich white corporates using it as a jolly day out and looking at the fans supporting the side like animals in a zoo.
I'm not a huge fan of the Expressions character and fans using the club to promote themselves. I just felt uncomfortable that the language he uses is looked down upon and seen as somehow more Arsenal than Spurs (albeit jokingly). Why the shock horror that a Spurs fan is using north London slang words?
At least the Arsenal faithful will understand him.
Let's not pretend his videos are representative of how most black people speak. It's an act, and that's what bothers me. He's going to matches to play up to that completely exaggerated stereotype and further his personal brand and YouTube career, rather than to support the team. That annoys me just as much as the rich white corporates using it as a jolly day out and looking at the fans supporting the side like animals in a zoo.
I can't help but feel if expressions was part of AFTV everyone would hate him. My dislike of him has nothing to do with him using slang. I don't really understand why anyone critical of him is instantly labelled as some kind of racist, but anyway. To me he's just irritating and I don't find him funny. If he was white and posh I'd still feel the same way.
Did he actually go before he started vlogging? If so then fair enough, but I was under the impression he had scarcely if ever been before and then suddenly started being given tickets out of our away allocation for games like Arsenal.
I really don't understand what you mean by that bit in bold above?Behave. People find it annoying like they do any other accent. I didn't moan when people took the piss out of harry or tims accent (or maybe I did). Also some of us find the whole vlog thing cringey. I don't wish ill on The bloke but the whole thing isn't my cup of tea.
Guess we're all racists though.
Just to clarify, if thats the same guy I'm thinking of, he's been a fan and has been going to games for years, during our last season at the lane he was so desperate to get tickets for every game he actually got a job as a steward at WHL just so he could be there.Did he actually go before he started vlogging? If so then fair enough, but I was under the impression he had scarcely if ever been before and then suddenly started being given tickets out of our away allocation for games like Arsenal.
Just to clarify, if thats the same guy I'm thinking of, he's been a fan and has been going to games for years, during our last season at the lane he was so desperate to get tickets for every game he actually got a job as a steward at WHL just so he could be there.
How many of the 'fans' on here would go to such lengths?
I would simply put that down to Arsenal being more successful than us in the last few decades. It will change if we continue on our current resurgence.Not the biggest fan of “street talk”, but I’m all for it if it opens out lovely club to more non-white fans. For some reason we’re not as attractive to ethnic minorities compared to Le Arse, which is a shame as we have so many promising young black lads in our academy and youth squash etc.
Ah, maybe I stand corrected, I thought that was him, but the way he comes across id suspect he's not a stranger to our games and doubt he's just going to games now to grow his own fanbase.That was his brother