HATEM BEN ARFA has riled suffering Newcastle fans by wearing a Paris Saint-Germain kit in a local gym. The French winger was kitted out in a PSG training top and shorts at a Tyneside health club on Monday night â two days after their humiliating 6-0 defeat by Liverpool. An onlooker told SunSport: âBen Arfa was laughing and joking with two French pals in the weights room â he didnât seem to have a care in the world.â Ben Arfa is a lifelong fan of the French giants and in January admitted it would be a dream to play for his home-town team. Gym-goers were furious to see one of their heroes swanning around paying no attention to relegation rivals Aston Villa and Sunderland slugging it out on the TV screens around him. Ben Arfa, 26, has not started a league game since December after hamstring troubles. He came on as a second-half sub against Liverpool â one of seven French players on the pitch for Newcastle. Fans have turned on Toonâs under-performing foreign flops, as well as boss Alan Pardew. The supporter added: âBen Arfa did not look at the TV, even though Villa beating Sunderland could have a huge impact on our chances of staying up.â
If it was another Prem club then cry away but its his boyhood club that are in a different country. Surely Newcastle fans who eat sleep and get married in their replica kits know whats its like to be passionate about your home town team.
Wow. A boyhood fan wearing a replica kit. How dare he. Also good to note he is keeping up his training out of hours. Typical non story from the sun.
Lazy journo's again eh? got nowt to write about so lets jump on that bandwagon. Now if he'd been wearing a Sunderland shirt, well, that's different
It's a non-story but players know they'll get this kind of stuff thrown at them so they really could avoid it. Not that I would mind as a fan but there's always some loons that will make a fuss of it.
Does the term "Slugging it out" refer to the match being like a boxing match - think that the boxing match may have been stopped after the 5th round if it was!!
The second I saw it was written (loose terminology btw) by the adult comic newspaper for the mentally and intellectually challenged, I switched off. Don’t know the story or particularly want to from this ****ty Murdoch bog roll.
Think thats been done........... You will have to think of something ridiculous that would simply never happen ........like, I dont know........ hitting a horse or something. I mean, would that ever happen?
Could have been worse, he could have been wearing a Black & White stripped urban terrorist shirt!!!!!!
I would have been more upset about him not showing an interest in the match on TV involving two others in the zone. FFS! If he feels nowt about other results around them, he mustn't care what happens to his club.