Moving On
Monday, 29 September 08, 08:48 AM · Comments(0)
I said to my girlfriend Jo, on Saturday night as I sat at her auntie Sue's 50th birthday celebrations, fulminating about the display of football that had unfolded at the Grove that evening, seeing Arsenal lose feels like being dumped. You know? You accept it, then you get angry and upset and then you let it out and you feel better. Until it bubbles up again. Today at work's been a bit like that actually, I thought I'd put the tin lid on it in my blog yesterday, but having talked about- at length- with various colleagues, the anger is rising again.
So Jo said to me, "Would you like to revisit that feeling?"
Actually, no I wouldn't. we played, we lost and Hull City have a famous scalp in their first season in the Premier League, leave it there. End of story.
But it occured to me earlier, as I watched the Online box office painstakingly load up this morning, what the hell am I doing? Arsenal play like that on Saturday evening, come Monday morning I get myself in the queue for tickets to the Tottenham game in a month's time. Get kicked out just as I am in the process of assigning tickets for myself, Jo and my mate Gabs. And have to go through the same process all over again. Arsenal have got me- and, if you're reading this, I suspect you too- over a barrel.
Saturday evening, Arséne says "We were shocking." Monday morning, Arsenal say "Ticket for Spurs? Certainly. £67 please". "Great, thanks Arsenal. Would you like a piece of my arse too?"
So, we're going, a Wednesday night kick off against the aptly named Oneday Ramos. One day in the sun for Spurs this decade, if Arsenal play like they did on Saturday, Spurs may well get an evening in the floodlights come the 29th October. But I live in hope. We have problems we certainly need to address- we certainly haven't become a bad team overnight though and as a team, they are in good hands. Though it was depressing to hear Arsène talk about the team being a little "short". Hmmm, I'm getting a deja-vu kinda feeling here, Arsène, didn't you know this already? Before you got rid of Senderos too?
Anyway, on the bright side, changes are promised tomorrow, annnnnnnd, and, we're on ITV1! Can you believe that? No, it's not a mistake, we're playing the same night as Manchester United, but it is they who have been relegated to the world of digital television. Irony of ironies, it finally happens and it's Jo's dad's birthday, so it could be on a 20 feet high screen with 5:1 surround sound, I still won't be watching.
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