- [Will] What is the most insulting food
you can throw at someone?
- Ooh, interesting, pops to mind first off is jelly.
Just 'cause it, the splatter is like
you don't even deserve a solid.
I'm not trying to hurt you.
I'm just trying to insult you.
- The downside of that is in terms of throwability
- [Clara] Low.
- [Will] There would be a jelly chemtrail behind it.
- Also you'd be all sticky
for the rest of the day or whatever.
- I wanna talk about a time where
pizza was used as the instrument of insult,
which to me does not make a ton of sense as a throwable.
- No, also that's, pizza's a good one.
You wanna keep that for yourself.
(laughs)
- That's for me.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- So we're gonna go back to 2004.
This takes place in England, Premier League, football,
soccer to us dullards.
- I hate to admit I'm a dullard
but fine yes, it is soccer to me.
- The important stuff to know is Manchester United
is hosting Arsenal.
Arsenal, the previous season,
they won the Premier League title.
They were the first team to ever complete the 38 game season
without losing.
And it actually was part
of a 49 game unbeaten streak that they're carrying
into this game against United.
- I'm gonna go ahead and align with the Arsenal side
real quick,
just they seem like winners.
It seems like that's the team I wanna be on and be with.
It makes me feel good about myself to associate with them.
So just, for the remainder of the video
I might be coming from that angle.
- Now I will say on the flip side, they're playing United,
who before Arsenal won the Premier League last season,
United had won eight of the previous 11 titles.
- Okay.
Maybe I spoke too soon,
but there's no going back.
- One thing that you now should keep in mind is
there is historic bad blood between these teams.
- Excellent.
- As well as recent bad blood,
they don't get along,
the captains don't like each other,
the previous season
as part of the unbeaten streak for Arsenal,
they played in the battle of Old Trafford
where there were just fouls left and right.
And Arsenal barely escaped with a draw.
- So United has essentially insulted my father's father,
my father, and now me.
- Exactly, exactly.
Arsenal super fan, Clara Morris.
- We can edit out the part where
I just pledged allegiance to them.
It'll be...
- Yeah.
It is immediately a chippy game.
United is fouling Arsenal left and right.
There's some pretty egregious takedowns
that get the whistle,
but don't get a card.
Arsenal was actually the...
they received the first card of the day,
which then certainly didn't help things.
And one important note was the referee going
into the game already had shown some level
of bias towards United.
- Oh God, damn it.
(laughs)
Are you kidding me?
- So in the seven previous matches
that he had refereed at Old Trafford
he had awarded Manchester United with seven penalty kicks.
And then today he made it eight for eight.
When Rooney was fouled
inside the box.
- I don't believe that.
- Or he leapt to avoid a leg.
(laughs)
He flopped, he flopped, he flopped.
- Son of a bitch.
(laughs)
- And United was able to turn that into a goal
and took a one-nil lead.
- So tensions have never been higher?
- Right.
Regardless of Arsenal being on this 49 game unbeaten streak
it would be a frustrating way to lose an individual match.
And the ending is not happy for Arsenal.
United wins two nothing.
- Oh God they got another one.
- They got another one.
And once it is all over even the broadcaster, Martin Tyler,
he's pointing out how Arsenal has in his words,
forgotten how to lose.
They weren't quite being the best losers about things.
They were chatting to the ref a lot.
- I love it.
I love it.
I think the concept of being a good loser is just terrible.
It's like pointless and embarrassing.
- It's a good lesson to teach children.
And then once you're making millions of dollars
to play a sport well.
- Yeah, you should care.
- Right.
100% you should react however you want.
- It's like in an office job, if someone was like
you're doing really bad,
you would take that pretty hard.
I would think.
- A hundred percent.
That's why I've never discouraged you
from wearing your brass knuckles to work.
- It's just decoration.
It's just rings.
I don't see the difference.
(laughs)
- So Arsenal is feeling some feelings about this result.
They're giving the referee in earful
they're talking to United players.
And then one of the best parts
of soccer occurs when these adults
are funneled out of the stadium through a very small tunnel
and sent back to their dressing rooms.
- We only have one tunnel for both of you,
I'm sure we'll be fine.
Step inside this small cement cave for a moment.
- God, can't see you.
(laughs)
And that's where things boil over.
There's a shoving match.
They're just yelling at each other, players,
the managers, guys are coming out of the dressing room
to see what's up.
Guys are still coming off the pitch.
And then all of a sudden, a slice of pizza flies through
and hits Sir Alex Ferguson
directly in the face.
- It's a good throw.
It's a perfect shot.
You hoped for it to hit somebody in the face.
How about someone who's been knighted?
- And then the following day
the queen actually de-knighted him.
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
What that is is they stab you with the sword.
(laughs)
It's a slow deliberate...
You embarrassed the country.
- So at that point, everyone just kind of stops.
And they all just wait
all the players are just waiting for Sir Alex to react
and then he storms off
and it's just kinda like that's the end of that.
Arsenal's allowed to go back to their dressing room
where they just bust up
(laughs)
and the media just ran with the story.
It became known as Pizza Gate.
- I mean, I have a couple of questions right off the bat.
- Please.
- Obviously the big one is who threw it.
- No one really came out and fessed up to it
until years later,
Fabregas this former Arsenal player,
James Corden asks him can you confirm the rumors Pizza Gate,
was that because of you?
And this very handsome man stated that
- Yeah.
(crowd applause)
- Oh wow, James Corden with the scoop.
- In the meantime this had ruined the relationship
between the managers
and it became this
the low point between these teams.
- I feel like there's two paths
they could have been like that's funny,
let's laugh it off, pizza of all things.
- If it was the end of like a lifetime movie.
(laughs)
- It seems like, yeah.
Instead they took it hard.
(laughs)
- So now that you know the situation,
where would you rank pizza
on the list of insulting foods to be hit with?
- That's pretty, that's a pretty insulting food
to be hit with.
I mean, it goes back to the fact that
pizza is so good to eat.
It's like, I hate you more than I love pizza.
- Oh, that's true.
That's a good point.
- And then it has a nice messiness to it.
It got on his clothes and stuff
when it's slipped down.
That's pretty insulting.
- And also to be hit by a food that you enjoy
would be a little tough.
- Like sense memory.
Like the smell is good,
but the situation is bad.
(laughs)
- This is not how I like to enjoy this thing.
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