Arsenal - Alex Song Facing Jail Time?

fifthcolumnblue brilliant repartee from a fan of a team who's captain *****s his best mates wife,

nikolaijns thanks mate its hard to tell the difference.

A spell inside could toughen him up to our advantage.

Wouldn't read much into this until we know it's true from a Club Source, but if it is then yes he should be punished.

Yeah, something like that Niko - he could intimidate them with the additional hard man tattoos he's got from being inside hehe

Nothing is more intimidating than that blonde mop + beard thing he was sporting last season doing his best to look like xavier that portugese? player

Never mind all this poop, the real issue is why there are so many slack-jaws in this country who buy these rags. If you buy and read (or am I being too optimistic) a red top paper, and specifically News International, YOU are as culpable this evening, when the news of these heinous actions by scum bags purporting as journalists, are shown for the complete see you next tuesdays they are, and you should be as embarrassed as the politicians who are in bed with Murdoch also. My mother was doorstepped by a Star journo some time ago. She had inherited money, and because she didn't want to give them a story (I chased him down our drive), they made it up. It is the first time, if the papers quotes are correct, that my intelligent, educated mother has used the term 'gobsmacked'. That was an irritant, and not particularly important. What is important is that these ********s make huge profits spewing *****e, and seemingly with the acquiescence of a poodle like political class. To those who buy these rags, think of the families involved in these cases, and tomorrow, when you buy your Daily Scum, think again.

With the last gasp of Romanticism, the quelling of its florid uprising against the vapid formalism of one strain of the Enlightenment, the dimming of its yearning for the imagined grandeur of the archaic, and the dashing of its too sanguine hopes for a revitalized, fulfilled humanity, the horror of its more lasting, more Gothic legacy has settled in, distributed and diffused enough, to be sure, that lugubriousness is recognizable only as languor, or as a certain sardonic laconicism disguising itself in a new sanctification of the destructive instincts, a new genius for displacing cultural reifications in the interminable shell game of the analysis of the human psyche, where nothing remains sacred. (Stephen T Tyman)

It's a bit hard to believe Song would do this. As midfield hardmen go, he's far from a nasty sort of player, doesn't seem to go out of his way to start trouble on the pitch, just puts his head down and gets on with it. But then again, you could say the same about Sagna until he had that rush of blood to the head against Citeh.

Im sure this will all disapear once the cheque clears (or it is still Brown paper bags still?) the victim will have his education paid for and a few quid to start a career of his choice and all will be forgotten and forgiven. or am I being cynical?

Hmmm, the lawyer's statement is quite suspicious though? I mean, for all I know Song might have beaten seven bells of ***** out of this young imp. But entirely unprovoked? Really? So Song just did a Bruce Banner and went postal on his scrawny student arse? If Sng did give him a slap, then, in the words of Chris Rock, "Damn! He musta done sumat!"

No mate, was in ref to the NOTW stuff. I may've missed the point completely :/

do the crime do the time

LD I disagree. I was bottled 6 years ago. I lost two teeth, needed 20 stitches to put my lips back together and sustained a broken jaw. Honestly that was a completely unprovoked. To the point that I didn't even know what had happened. Someone, who I later became friends with, happened to be at the same club that night and he remembers what happened - Six coked up guys walk onto the dance floor, one of them bottles me and all hell breaks lose. It does happen...in Sheffield

If Song got in a fight with someone in a Cameroonian bar, then it was no doubt provoked. Let's not forget he has been having issues with his country's FA and it won't be beyond a "silly"fan to make derisory comments about his situation, even shove him or slate him and his family. I am not saying he should over react, being a pro and all that, but there is just so much a man can take... Still, this is all speculation till we hear the other side.