Today’s guest writer, fresh from the sunlamp, is David Dein.
Good evening.
Dennis Bergkamp has kindly allowed me this opportunity to write on his website. I thank him for this and hope you could give me some of your time to discuss a unique opportunity.
I have, as you know, parted company with Arsenal Football Club PLC, after many successful and exciting years. This allows me to offer the public and loyal support of the Arsenal a proportion of my shareholding in Arsenal PLC.
What you will receive
For the sum of just £45million pounds, you will receive:
1. A seat on Arsenal’s board. However, please note that as a condition of the sale I will, of course retain this place on the board.
2. An opportunity to sit in the crowd and occasionally appear in National newspapers as being responsible for the decline in English football. Which, the papers will say, is now solely about money and not about sportmanship and how other teams cannot compete, which undermines the Premiership and England’s chances of winning the World Cup. This will however, be very temporary because within months they will be falling overthemselves and drooling at the grossly overpaid megastars you will pay for, and who will fill their pages.
3. You will also be hated by all fans of the club, because you don’t represent their traditional values. Until you start winning stuff, when your fan base will mysteriously increase, everyone will start wearing the club’s replica shirts, and claim they supported the club since “as long ago as early 2005, when they were only second, so I’m not a glory hunter, alright! What’s our goalkeeper’s name again?”
4. A commemorative “I fucked up Arsenal” Membership pack. This exclusive pack, only available to shareholders and new monied fleecers come with an exclusive book – containing interviews with the players (not Arsenal players), pictures from the training ground (or just outside from my Porsche, before I got moved on) and holiday snaps of my kids many years ago in Gwent (had to fill the pages somehow), also an exclusive pen (broken and nicked from Argos), and genuine replica fake rubber Thierry Henry nipple(or other player if this player’s fake nipple is not available) .
How your investment will be used at the club.
The money you invest will be used to:
1. Pay overrated world stars inflated salaries to keep our subs bench warm. Whilst allowing our developed and committed talent time to rot in the reserves before being sold to one of our competitors and coming back to haunt us later on.
2. Money will also be used to test out a number of foreign and high profile managers with little or no success.
3. Current world stars at the club will be sold to pay off my own vast credit card debt accumalated at Sindy’s Sunarium on the Ball’s Pond Road. Thanks Sind, you’re a treasure!
Please send cheques (US Dollars at current exchange rate – International Money Drafts accepted) for £45,000,000 to:
David Dein
Behind the burger stand on the corner of Drayton Park,
Only after 6pm on match days,
London N5 1BU
See you in the Bergkamp Gallery! (or possibly standing on a box outside the Auld Triangle selling Ashley Cole CD’s)
PS Thanks once again for the selling space again Dennis. Ebay charge 12p for this sort of thing nowadays.