Arsenal Celebrity Supporters Series
Johnny Rotten Update
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You may recall that over the slow summer months, instead of running breathless posts about signings that Arsenal weren’t making, we ran a feature called Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series. One of our first celebs was Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten. It will return next summer, but in the meantime, did anyone see Johnny [...]
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Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Kevin Costner
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Maybe not my favorite thespian, but for a celebrity convert, he’s got a little Gooner cred. Apparently it was the singing at Highbury that won him over. I’ll let him explain:
“When I came over and made Robin Hood I got a chance to go see a football game and it happened to [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Douglas Adams
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Consider, if you will, that Douglas Adams, English author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy among other works, died on May 11, 2001. What else happened in Britain that day? Arsenal lost the FA Cup final to Liverpool, 2-1 in Cardiff.
I bring that up not to show causation between the [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Steve Earle
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I first saw Steve Earle live in, I’d say, 1989. He was opening for Bob Dylan’s tour, which incidentally was the only time I saw Dylan live that registered as any good. But this isn’t about Bob, whom I love but who may be a Spurs fan for all I know. Rather, [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Dido
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No, no. Not that Dido. The one at left. Although if the mythic Carthaginian Queen, for whom the singer was named, had lived long enough to see football invented she’d likely have been a Gooner. All serious historians agree on that much.
Our Dido, you see, is an English singer of some [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Nick Hornby
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Although I suspect that many of you reading this are not only familiar with Nick Hornby’s Goonerdom, but will also be familiar with his first book Fever Pitch. In fact, since 1992 I’d say Fever Pitch has been the literary touchstone for Arsenal supporters. And unlike other entrants in the Arsenal Celebrity Supporter [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Jo Guest
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If it’s Friday, it must be time for another chapter of the Arsenal Celebrity Supporters Series. And if you’ll allow me the liberal use of the term “celebrity”, let me then introduce this week’s featured fan, Jo Guest.
As you may have already guessed from the photo, Ms. Guest is a lecturer at [...]
Category: Arsenal Celebrity Supporters SeriesArsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Michael Moore
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We’re staying Stateside this week with notorious documentary filmmaker and noted rabble rouser Michael Moore. Surprised that Moore is a Gooner? Don’t take my word for it–watch the video below of the big guy patrolling the concourse at Ashburton Grove.
Moore’s first big splash as a documentary filmmaker was 1989’s “Roger & Me”, examining [...]
Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Yep–Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an Arsenal fan, and our first non-English entry here at the world famous Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series. So take a break from thinking, “Hey, Thierry Henry may be leaving Arsenal after all!”, and enjoy.
Gellar, married to fellow Arsenal fan and general lameass Freddie Prinze, Jr., is a [...]
Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Johnny Rotten
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Now we’re getting a little more interesting here. You may remember that our inaugural ACSS was Prince Harry and his grandmother. But to be fair, Johnny Rotten did technically ask God to Save the Queen. Technically.
Johnny Rotten (née Lydon) was born in North London 51 years ago to Irish parents. Rotten [...]
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