Uzbek steals bloggerheads, ex-Ambassador and someone else’s chin.

The English Premiership football league is increasingly a thing dominated by spoiled petulant millionaires (who need their legs slapping) and club owners whose sole aim in life seems to be pissing enthusiastically over football fans with one hand while extracting their cash with the other. The fans choose to allow themselves to be pissed over, so that’s fine. They could always go fishing, or collect strange triangular stamps from countries about to vanish below a Pacific high tide.

I don’t write about football because I’m not really interested. Currently, however, an Uzbek gentleman with a name that would have been in the ‘girls’ half of the register when I was at primary school appears to be trying to buy Arsenal football club. He has also taken exception to a book written by our Craig Murray, ex-Ambassador to Uzbekistan, who whimsically pointed out that the UK/US’s allies in the GWOT were in the habit of torturing dissidents and occasionally putting them to death. Boiling them, if I remember aright. For revealing which, the Blair government sacked and calumniated the man. Mr Murray understandably went rogue and wrote a book exposing all, including some allegations about Mr. Girlsregisterov.

Mr Girslregisterov threw a gargantuan Uzbek wobbly (and you want to see one of those: many goats die) and ordered his powsh London lawyers to issue a takedown notice against the rogue Ambassador’s blog hosting company. The hosting company microwaved a whole server taking out as collateral a few high profile politico bloggers and a hilariously loose cannonish political blog activist called Tim Ireland who blogs as Bloggerheads.  As of tonight his blog is still unavailable. Tim gets up noses like coke in a City bankers’ toilet.

The whole nastiness is written about and updated in far greater detail here, and Chicken Yoghurt deserves come kind of award for to be invented, struck and presented for his services to free blogging speech.

Now, I am a northerner, and the limit of my football allegiance is to be mildly happy when northern teams do well at the expense of southern. However, Arsenal (a London team) are currently playing sublime football without any money put in by Mr Dodgski Girlsregisterov. And looking at him, he has clearly stolen someone else’s chin, having at least one more than is strictly necessary.

So, Mr Usmanov, (and I say this as an internationalist) kindly fuck off, fuck a long way off in short jerky movements. We like our freedom of speech, our rogue ex Uzbek Ambassadors, our web activists, our Labour councillors, our Conservatrive mayoral candidates for London and don’t want your sort around here stopping them writing. I might not agree with them all, but I want the right to read what they have to say, and want them to have the right to write it.

And to his lawyers: I wish you shit beneath your fingernails. You didn’t have to do this. But you did.