Peter Hill-Wood Has a Sense of Humour

Filed in archive Premiership 2006/7 on April 27, 2007

Arsenal's poshly named chairman Peter Hill-Wood (on the right, obviously) has been explaining why he's not keen on damn yankee American billionaire Stan Kroenke taking over the club.

Why don't we want the American at our club? Call me old-fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. Our objective is keep Arsenal English...

Though he did have the good grace to add "...albeit with a lot of foreign players."

Glad he appreciates the irony of the Premiership's most foreign club (last count had Justin Hoyte and Theo Walcott as the only Englishmen with a hope of making the first team, with Fabrice Muamba keeping his fingers crossed) rejecting a foreign takeover. But still, those are pretty strong (and again, pretty posh) words. I didn't think people really said things like "We don't want his sort" anymore.