Distance makes the heart beat faster and the anger stay under.....

Thursday, 30 October 08, 03:35 PM · Comments(0)

Sometimes heavy rain can be a truly glorious thing. If it hadn't been p###ing it down last night and so f##king cold I may have taken a trip to the pub in Basel town, drunk too many beers, seen a wild Spurs fan celebrating yet another draw and let anger take hold of me with disastrous consequences! Maybe that would have been the case, I just don't know but I do know (and I've a feeling that my season ticket colleagues at Arsenal may agree) that I let the anger out when certain things happen and the alcohol has been consumed. I've never lashed out at someone (that's just immature isn't it and violence never solved any problem) but when a really annoying sod of a newbie football fan (who has, by definition, never really followed the game until Sky came along) flaunts himself in your face it's hard to control oneself.

So thanks to the weather and the fact that Teleclub didn't show the game last night I relied on the wonderful experience of Guardian MBM and BBC Live Text service to "see" the final 5 minutes of a game we should've won. There is something really "digital" about seeing the score appear online with no anticipation of what has unfolded or about to unfold. It's depressing and brings back really bad ceefax memories (York 1-0 Arsenal, springs to mind!).

Anyway for various reasons (one being, irony of all ironies, preparing dinner for my wife's friend's family - mum, dad, 2 sons - ALL Tottenham Supporters who didn't know the game had ended 4-4 as they have turned all media off at 88 minutes!!) such as letting the anger subside it has been good to wait before blogging today.

So you're expecting comment - I'll just leave you with one and it's a truism: A good game for the neutrals is f##king awful for those involved.

Distance makes the heart beat faster and the anger stay under.....

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