Some people call Lydon a sell-out. Well, in 2011 he wrote a guest chapter for my football book Theatre of Silence 2nd Edition. He never asked me for a penny. He didn't know me, didn't owe me anything, he did it because he believed in the message. I would have given him a cut of my royalty but he wasn't interested. Total respect. This was the clip that made me want to get Lydon involved. By the way, he told me that all money from that butter ad went to fund PILs world tour.
arsenal sucks now.all the wogs and pakis love arsenal,arsenal is not an english team anymore.the best arsenal was in the good old days when they played at highbury with adams and bergkamp.the funny thing about arsenal is that it has more french players than the french national football team.rotten is fucking right.
@pr0pagandhi he was dutch,but he was in the good old times now they got frenchies all over.arsenal is not an english team anymore.arsenal has nothing british,the manager is french,the players are foreigners,the brand they use is american,the stadium has a foreign airline name.so tell me where is the english or british arsenal? most arsenal fans are immigrants living in UK,arsenal is like the french foreign legion.bye
Grow up Lydon you cock! That plastic stadium has made us one of the biggest clubs in the world! Lydons a walking contradiction...." I grew up here in london, then made a shed load of money and fucked off to LA" COCK! PUNK MY ARSE!
@MrPapaStone he lives in LA because of police raids and being fitted up by the police after he got a good kicking off them. And if you think a shit stadium made Arsenal a big club, your a fucking moron. Its hard to be wrong on every point you try and make, but well done for accomplishing it, you plank.
"Johnny tells it like it is"... grow up. It's sad to see there's still a few who've not seen through this pathetic clown yet. "He's Honest?" Have you been listening to his endless stream of contradictory bullshit over the last thirty years or so or what?! Do you seriously believe his boast to have done time "in detention" for peeking in the windows of a girl's school? Just the ramblings of a sad old fool trying to impress the local kids...... pathetic.
I AM A PAOK SALONIKA SUPPORTER AND I REALLY UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEIR TEAM AND GROW UP WITH THEIR TEAM THEY LOVE THEIR OLD STADIUM AND THE FRIENDS WHO MET IN THERE AND JOHNNY HAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
What like banning the st george cross from your ground but allowing Celtic supporters to scream murdering bastards at British Troops at in your own stadium !
Mr.Lydon, I'm from atiny town in Italy and I happened to have a stroll with my girlfriend in Benwell just to pay tribute to the place you grow in, to feel the actual background that built such a strong individual as you, and I agree with what i've just heard, that place is no longer there. Anyway, it reassures me you're still with us. Thanks very much, have a good life!
I know where he's coming from. Even though The Emirates is an awesome stadium I'd rather have Highbury back any day. Holds so many good memories of friends and family.
Unfortunately times change and so have the areas we were brought up in :(
The bloke is a top man and arsenal through and through,fu...ing cartoon cannon wrong way round ground full of people who only go cause is fashionable dont sing, f...k off WEwant our club back
Oh yeah let's stay int he old Arsenal stadium forever, where I used to pay £40 for an east lower seat row 28 and only catch glimpses of the players feet because of the low roof ....
.... a lot of modern stadium are sole less places, and I prefer 4 stands to a bowl, but Arsenal's stadium is ok
facing the wrong way! like he said...what he talked about and the steve and paul cook walk through was the same.i seen it in the states from the 80s to now.dehumanised is a word that comes to mind.
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More working class bullshit. Lets all stand still and never move forward. The modern working man will grow up watching Arsenal in the best club stadium going. Stop fucking moaning!
If you know the history of the club you'll know the cannon has changed orientation several times.
Well said that man, the arsenal used to be team of the workin classes of highbury, finsbury park, holloway road, drayton park... gone forever now to £5000 seats in a plastic shithole of a ground. Its our loss but whose gonna listen? The club certainly aint.
Im not a arsenal fan but i agree with what mr.lydon said . football is turning into some games for the rich millionaires to play with . they think buying some club will make them more money , to Us the fans the Team means alot more
I don't like him but what an excellent point he makes. As a football lover I wouldn't be seen dead in one of these prawn sandwich corporate shitholes.
i have to say that everything he says is right (apart from the swearing)! I really really miss Highbury , the old emblem (which WAS much better) etc. Yes it's a nice stadium, but the location etc. of the old one (on a hill) was much better. They really should have pulled out all the stops to develop the old one and all its character. Did anyone see him on fantasy football (world cup) with Baddeal and skinner a few years ago? That was a classic, just like the manning/wilson interview on mrsmerton
at the time, i remember there was plenty of talk about developing highbury into a 60,000 seater. The plans were axed though, because some of those living around the ground refused to move despite the generous monetary offers from AFC. The area around the current ground is dead - there is very little atmosphere, not like at highbury, and so this is why i think JR is so right in his comments.Its just a lump of concrete that makes a true fan lament for highbury...
There was talk of extending Highbury, stopped by the combination of local residents and the listing of the East and West stands. However Highbury would never have got 60,000 all seater.
WHY IS JOHN STEVENS IN EVERY BLOODY SHOT WITH LYDON?!!? He even went out on STAGE with the Pistols on the DVD. Looks like a bleedin' bullfrog in a jumper, that one.
How can that 2 guys not be excited to see him! Well, I like Highbury, but also like Emirates as well. I have to agree with the logo, the classic one was much much much better than the new one!
As a Liverpool supporter who started watching football as seven year old in 1972, I can understand Johnny Rotten's frustrations; not as if he can't afford a ticket, but apparently he remembers his roots. Interesting stuff!
Maybe the best thing for Liverpool would be for the new stadium plan to fail and stay at Anfield. Given the superb football Arsenal have been playing for years, the fans should be in non-stop party mode. It seems like the real fans are sitting at home...
Agree with every word. And anybody reading this that can't understand, or agree with the bits about The Arsenal and the stadium should do us all a favour and fuck off and support somebody else. They don't know what the club is all about and it's them who are wrong with the direction The Arsenal have gone and who are ruining the club.
The guy is a fucking legend, end of. The way football was heading, to keep up with the so called best of the best, we had to get more bums on seats but at what price? The Arsenal will always be there, our love for The Arsenal will never die, but no doubt about it, there has been something lost at our beloved institution we will never be able to take back. Shame. UP THE ARSE.
WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE GROW UP! He's got a right to do or say whatever the fuck he wants. Don't you? You gonna stay the SAME WAY all your life? GUESS AGAIN.
wrong! he longs for a london where local people liked each other, his ideals havent changed, his problem is with rich fat cats running everything, same as it was 30 years ago, like him or hate him you gotta admit one thing, hes honest
well what your saying your not going to change when u get older? he has to calm down sometime, god read his bok, he couldnt walk through the streets with out being stabbed
Tazman, I read his damn book. Now go back and read my comment, and don't put words in my mouth. I was thinking...In the US, there is limited press about the racist beating of the Bloc Party singer. But here Mr. Lydon is, being civil with the black kids. I wonder if this was released post-incident as some kind of SPIN CONTROL>?
@firstcat So, because white attacks black it's racist? Hmmmm....it's this kind of ill-informed coment that causes the majority of racial conflict and, I'm sad to say, it normally eminates from white left-wing apologists who think they are being "right-on" by stating such remarkss. You're obviously unaware that Mr. lydon's family is "multi-cultural".......
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Mrpublicimagelimited 4 months ago
Some people call Lydon a sell-out. Well, in 2011 he wrote a guest chapter for my football book Theatre of Silence 2nd Edition. He never asked me for a penny. He didn't know me, didn't owe me anything, he did it because he believed in the message. I would have given him a cut of my royalty but he wasn't interested. Total respect. This was the clip that made me want to get Lydon involved. By the way, he told me that all money from that butter ad went to fund PILs world tour.
TOSILENCE77 4 months ago
Arsenal have sold out - and so has John Lydon with his butter adverts!!
MrRyan200 4 months ago
never a true word said
skittle6127 7 months ago
Nice to see him without that horrible creature, Rambo
tanpiltanpil 8 months ago
I M MR. LYDON
MY HERO !
ivaanbr22 9 months ago
I M MR. LYDON
ivaanbr22 9 months ago
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COME ON YOU SPURS!
MasterBandit101 9 months ago
i know its an over used saying but this guy should be fucking prime minister
jtyler05 9 months ago 3
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Never mind the jungle camp, rotten's the one and only "one minute hero"!!!!
WilmothHoudini 10 months ago
never mind the jungle camp: rotten is the one and only one minute hero!!!
WilmothHoudini 10 months ago
HE IS RIGHT
arsenal7153 10 months ago
HES RIGHT
arsenal7153 10 months ago
go Johnny, you legend!
tonabaki 11 months ago
arsenal sucks now.all the wogs and pakis love arsenal,arsenal is not an english team anymore.the best arsenal was in the good old days when they played at highbury with adams and bergkamp.the funny thing about arsenal is that it has more french players than the french national football team.rotten is fucking right.
gregorboca90 11 months ago
@gregorboca90 Tell me, where was Bergkamp from again?
pr0pagandhi 11 months ago
@pr0pagandhi he was dutch,but he was in the good old times now they got frenchies all over.arsenal is not an english team anymore.arsenal has nothing british,the manager is french,the players are foreigners,the brand they use is american,the stadium has a foreign airline name.so tell me where is the english or british arsenal? most arsenal fans are immigrants living in UK,arsenal is like the french foreign legion.bye
gregorboca90 11 months ago 3
Up the gunners
thegoverner100 1 year ago
We love you arsenal
thegoverner100 1 year ago
sums the Arse up. Thier middle class staduim and "urban" support. What a shithole
VodkaTonic1976 1 year ago
A very intellectual man.
malabus 1 year ago 2
he's got a point, it IS pointing the wrong fucking way....
xDAVEYxDENIEDx 1 year ago
@specialfx34 That people come from around the world to stand under and get pictures taken!!!!
MrPapaStone 1 year ago
Grow up Lydon you cock! That plastic stadium has made us one of the biggest clubs in the world! Lydons a walking contradiction...." I grew up here in london, then made a shed load of money and fucked off to LA" COCK! PUNK MY ARSE!
MrPapaStone 1 year ago
@MrPapaStone he lives in LA because of police raids and being fitted up by the police after he got a good kicking off them. And if you think a shit stadium made Arsenal a big club, your a fucking moron. Its hard to be wrong on every point you try and make, but well done for accomplishing it, you plank.
ianhitman 4 months ago
Excellent.What a top geezer.Keep it real Johnny !!!
dazzajames72 1 year ago
what's wrong with his voice?
omgsh john, please stop smoking
Assdass92 1 year ago
"Johnny tells it like it is"... grow up. It's sad to see there's still a few who've not seen through this pathetic clown yet. "He's Honest?" Have you been listening to his endless stream of contradictory bullshit over the last thirty years or so or what?! Do you seriously believe his boast to have done time "in detention" for peeking in the windows of a girl's school? Just the ramblings of a sad old fool trying to impress the local kids...... pathetic.
seamo123 1 year ago
I AM A PAOK SALONIKA SUPPORTER AND I REALLY UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEIR TEAM AND GROW UP WITH THEIR TEAM THEY LOVE THEIR OLD STADIUM AND THE FRIENDS WHO MET IN THERE AND JOHNNY HAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
zalidas4 1 year ago
sid vixious was PAOK supporter
zalidas4 1 year ago
my hero!
missSuchashame 1 year ago
"plastic fucking cannon made in italy!"
Osthropek 1 year ago 7
" made it good and better" ???
What like banning the st george cross from your ground but allowing Celtic supporters to scream murdering bastards at British Troops at in your own stadium !
yeah its good alright?????!
theblackmafia71 1 year ago
@theblackmafia71 = wanker : -)
Che870 1 year ago
Football is over in the year of 2006 while there is no more Highbury..
haiboriver 1 year ago
johnny is an arsenal fan....what about SID? did he like football???
pablotjob 1 year ago
Mr.Lydon, I'm from atiny town in Italy and I happened to have a stroll with my girlfriend in Benwell just to pay tribute to the place you grow in, to feel the actual background that built such a strong individual as you, and I agree with what i've just heard, that place is no longer there. Anyway, it reassures me you're still with us. Thanks very much, have a good life!
imbrocorziano667 1 year ago
Love Johnny... a man of reality
Sreewtyui 1 year ago
Brilliant, brilliant brilliant, go Johnny go!!!!
xrayspecsy 1 year ago
I know where he's coming from. Even though The Emirates is an awesome stadium I'd rather have Highbury back any day. Holds so many good memories of friends and family.
Unfortunately times change and so have the areas we were brought up in :(
SueAfc712004 1 year ago
wonder what Johnny say about conservative back in seat
Lucifer986 1 year ago
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seamo123 1 year ago
He sounds like he has a cold in this.
Iolimcool 1 year ago
The bloke is a top man and arsenal through and through,fu...ing cartoon cannon wrong way round ground full of people who only go cause is fashionable dont sing, f...k off WEwant our club back
dilligaf57afc 2 years ago
the bloke is a top man,loves the arsenal and is old school,we want our club back
dilligaf57afc 2 years ago
He should make a new album, he can still sing, till down to earth and has the irony still!
desasterz 2 years ago
If i didint know who he was, and he started talking to me, id be worried!
Il ike the emirates, but im only 17, so i didnt have much of highbury.
Burnzi2 2 years ago
I could listen to him for hours, love his honesty.
growler8877 2 years ago 2
This was hilarious.
ajittffcure 2 years ago
this is gentrification at its worst.
ddean1987 2 years ago
Oh yeah let's stay int he old Arsenal stadium forever, where I used to pay £40 for an east lower seat row 28 and only catch glimpses of the players feet because of the low roof ....
.... a lot of modern stadium are sole less places, and I prefer 4 stands to a bowl, but Arsenal's stadium is ok
UKrulesOK1 2 years ago
That Cannon was problably only £500
leatherface12345 2 years ago 2
facing the wrong way! like he said...what he talked about and the steve and paul cook walk through was the same.i seen it in the states from the 80s to now.dehumanised is a word that comes to mind.
thedigitalcollective 2 years ago 2
Emirates Stadium. Might as well bend over and take a big cock from the Arabs Arsenal.
WKaliberr 2 years ago
Not as bad as Arab Citeh.
Authority25 2 years ago
or Russian Mafia Chelski
WKaliberr 2 years ago
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More working class bullshit. Lets all stand still and never move forward. The modern working man will grow up watching Arsenal in the best club stadium going. Stop fucking moaning!
If you know the history of the club you'll know the cannon has changed orientation several times.
Move on!
neatrocks 2 years ago
he beat the guy in bloc party coz the guy is an indie fag not coz hes black.lydon has family tht are black idiot
louiscfc93 2 years ago 2
one day we will have the uprising of us anarchists and blow up the police too
"one day" cant wait
until then listen to john and if you dont like him lol do you think he cares lmao
tada
deanside 2 years ago
I think those events are a certainty sooner rather than later what with the way the fooking country is now.This Cuntry is fooked.
Naomi0111 2 years ago
Well said that man, the arsenal used to be team of the workin classes of highbury, finsbury park, holloway road, drayton park... gone forever now to £5000 seats in a plastic shithole of a ground. Its our loss but whose gonna listen? The club certainly aint.
AFC
1AFC1886 2 years ago 6
Im not a arsenal fan but i agree with what mr.lydon said . football is turning into some games for the rich millionaires to play with . they think buying some club will make them more money , to Us the fans the Team means alot more
TheMyns 2 years ago 3
this was ace
JGTMTE 2 years ago
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borderline personality disorder
skillethead666 3 years ago
should have to remodel highbury
chopsueykkk1234 3 years ago
I don't like him but what an excellent point he makes. As a football lover I wouldn't be seen dead in one of these prawn sandwich corporate shitholes.
sophieewohaa 3 years ago
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what an idiot!!!!
OddThomas88 3 years ago
who? that black ones? i think not really
chopsueykkk1234 3 years ago
i have to say that everything he says is right (apart from the swearing)! I really really miss Highbury , the old emblem (which WAS much better) etc. Yes it's a nice stadium, but the location etc. of the old one (on a hill) was much better. They really should have pulled out all the stops to develop the old one and all its character. Did anyone see him on fantasy football (world cup) with Baddeal and skinner a few years ago? That was a classic, just like the manning/wilson interview on mrsmerton
ooeyb 3 years ago
yea fuck it im a manutd fan and it pisses me that highbury is gonna turn into a apartment for rich people
HayatoFernandes 3 years ago
How could they have developed the old one, build Highbury on stilts?
jackwilshiresfakeid 3 years ago
at the time, i remember there was plenty of talk about developing highbury into a 60,000 seater. The plans were axed though, because some of those living around the ground refused to move despite the generous monetary offers from AFC. The area around the current ground is dead - there is very little atmosphere, not like at highbury, and so this is why i think JR is so right in his comments.Its just a lump of concrete that makes a true fan lament for highbury...
ooeyb 3 years ago
There was talk of extending Highbury, stopped by the combination of local residents and the listing of the East and West stands. However Highbury would never have got 60,000 all seater.
jackwilshiresfakeid 3 years ago
erh... maybe if they'd built it on stilts like u said!
ooeyb 3 years ago
He talks a lot of sense but then he went and did the bloody countrylife butter ad.
FFSINEEDANAME 3 years ago
shut the fuck up about it.
kingshahine 3 years ago 2
WHY IS JOHN STEVENS IN EVERY BLOODY SHOT WITH LYDON?!!? He even went out on STAGE with the Pistols on the DVD. Looks like a bleedin' bullfrog in a jumper, that one.
epsteinsmutha 3 years ago
Minder/free-loader/male lover I reckon..
Armalyte75 3 years ago
It's brilliant, the way he delivers
MutilatedFace 3 years ago 5
How can that 2 guys not be excited to see him! Well, I like Highbury, but also like Emirates as well. I have to agree with the logo, the classic one was much much much better than the new one!
alexandre1129 3 years ago
Lol when lydon shouts at the new arsenal emblem he sounds like my grandad talking about new labour :P
madcapoperator 3 years ago 4
As a Liverpool supporter who started watching football as seven year old in 1972, I can understand Johnny Rotten's frustrations; not as if he can't afford a ticket, but apparently he remembers his roots. Interesting stuff!
Maybe the best thing for Liverpool would be for the new stadium plan to fail and stay at Anfield. Given the superb football Arsenal have been playing for years, the fans should be in non-stop party mode. It seems like the real fans are sitting at home...
AnthonyW65 3 years ago 4
racist cunt : synthpopclassics
lewihendrix123 3 years ago
shut up - nobbo.
Benzi75 3 years ago 3
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look at the stupid nigs. they aint locals.
synthpopclassics 3 years ago
piss off you yanks. u know shite about london and football.
Authority25 3 years ago 3
yea i miss highbury
conawillvlog 3 years ago
I never knew Johnny Rotten is a hard-core Arsenal's supporter. This is so cool...
Ujangrave 3 years ago 20
@Ujangrave Johnny being an icon and cheerer of Gunners longer than Wenger and Bergkamp Adams Wright...Hey Arsene where did you take Arsenal to?
haiboriver 1 year ago
Well said Mr Lydon!
HighburyRIP 3 years ago 3
johnnys right you know
BelsenWuzAGas 3 years ago
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this guy is a prick
northoltkid 3 years ago
What is a prick? Someone that speaks their mind?
finkin 3 years ago
did he say freddie mercury 2 42 ?
eltork 3 years ago
pretty littles or summat
conawillvlog 3 years ago
No lol; I want to say the word "nipples" was in there XD. It was something amusing, nonetheless.
flatline626 3 years ago
Just been reading a book called Theatre of Silence which says the same thing. Written by another Gooner who also slags of the stadium.
utubaz89 3 years ago
too right, especially about that fucking cannon
Robinlincoln 3 years ago 6
Agree with every word. And anybody reading this that can't understand, or agree with the bits about The Arsenal and the stadium should do us all a favour and fuck off and support somebody else. They don't know what the club is all about and it's them who are wrong with the direction The Arsenal have gone and who are ruining the club.
Well said John.
EIE
hertsgooner 3 years ago 4
lol
"Adults are fucked...this whole country is fucked....and nobody fucked me!"
bes123seb 3 years ago 5
Wel said Johnny.
From a Scouser.
fakehippy 3 years ago 4
The guy is a fucking legend, end of. The way football was heading, to keep up with the so called best of the best, we had to get more bums on seats but at what price? The Arsenal will always be there, our love for The Arsenal will never die, but no doubt about it, there has been something lost at our beloved institution we will never be able to take back. Shame. UP THE ARSE.
wewontheleagueatWHL 3 years ago 4
WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE GROW UP! He's got a right to do or say whatever the fuck he wants. Don't you? You gonna stay the SAME WAY all your life? GUESS AGAIN.
jbearden 3 years ago 3
he's right about the cannon
rigs345 3 years ago 4
and he now lives in the usa of aaaaaaaaa
markusa 3 years ago
funny how he longs for the Britain of his punk years.. the very Britain he railed against.
scgcom 3 years ago
we are the
arsenal and we are the best-we are the arsenal so f**k all the rest
sontino1 3 years ago
wrong! he longs for a london where local people liked each other, his ideals havent changed, his problem is with rich fat cats running everything, same as it was 30 years ago, like him or hate him you gotta admit one thing, hes honest
bohsmb78 3 years ago 25
jews run everything.
synthpopclassics 3 years ago
Gawd, He's just another whiny old geezer now. Eek, saying "Please & Love" out of his piehole just gives me the douche-chills.
And I'm a FAN!
firstcat 3 years ago
well what your saying your not going to change when u get older? he has to calm down sometime, god read his bok, he couldnt walk through the streets with out being stabbed
tazzman560 3 years ago
Tazman, I read his damn book. Now go back and read my comment, and don't put words in my mouth. I was thinking...In the US, there is limited press about the racist beating of the Bloc Party singer. But here Mr. Lydon is, being civil with the black kids. I wonder if this was released post-incident as some kind of SPIN CONTROL>?
firstcat 3 years ago
You are a fucking TIT. You need a fucking education son.
Teabonesteak 3 years ago 2
@firstcat So, because white attacks black it's racist? Hmmmm....it's this kind of ill-informed coment that causes the majority of racial conflict and, I'm sad to say, it normally eminates from white left-wing apologists who think they are being "right-on" by stating such remarkss. You're obviously unaware that Mr. lydon's family is "multi-cultural".......
scrabble58 1 month ago
all u mugs cannot be anyweer near this man
he is the guvnor
sontino1 3 years ago
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Some truth in what he says about Arsenal but some of his stories are obviously complete bollocks
thwaxer 3 years ago
Everything he says is the truth
Slance1Himself 3 years ago 3
He never tells pork pies lad!
Teabonesteak 3 years ago
thanksssssss
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MissEmmaViolet 3 years ago 3