EliteKiller wrote:swipe right wrote:Honestly, I’d rather take an expense paid trip to see the superbowl than spend 90 mins in Manchester watching the drivel Emery doles out.
Probably seen more games live than you've seen on TV but who cares about that? .... I'd rather watch Arsenal play on a freezing cold Tuesday at Middlesbrough, than watch a bunch of padded up tossers interrupting TV commercials for 30 seconds of push and shove, and I've done it many times (
twice in 11 days back in '77 we lost 3-0 and 4-1 freezing rain both games) ... but then I'm an Arsenal fan good days or bad not a US sport aficionado ... it's each to their own I guess ....
The past really is a foreign land mate
Hard for the take it or leave it generation to understand how difficult it was to catch your football team away from home in these days
It was a couple of seasons before I started going to away games outside of London
I had been on a Mediterranean cruise with my school
I was gutted that I had to miss a home game
The ss Uganda bound for Haifa or a 0-0 with Sunderland ?
I was missing the wrestlers burger and the wagon wheel more than I was enjoying my first ever snog.thia draw was as good as it got till April
We lost the next 8 games then drew the next one.
I remember trying to keep up with the 3-0 defeat at boro but radio 2 were only offering second half coverage of Ipswich v Norwich
Ipswich went top that night
We were 5 th at the start of that poor run and a 4-1 home defeat to Ipswich in the middle of it put paid to any vague hopes we had harboured of the title
In truth though terry Neil had steadied the ship after what had bee two dreadful seasons at the end of Bertie mee's tenure
I tried to talk my grandad into making the long drive up to boro for the cup tie but in truth I don't think his cab would have made it
I know that those that did faced a torrent of hate
There were about 50 arrests and one Arsenal fan got a dart in the face that just missed his eye
My only chance of catching this game was updates on lbc radio
We were the only London club left in the cup so it got a bit more attention on there
Highlights were shown on the big match the following afternoon ( in fact it's on you tube if anyone wants to post it) it looks really strange now to see pockets of Arsenal fans celebrating when Malcolm macdonald pulls one back) taking your life in your hands with no segregation.
These were the days when just william was on Sunday afternoons and Bonnies Langford was scweeming and scweeming.
Also around this time was a play called spend spend spend
About pools winner Vivian Nicholson won 152 grand and vowed to spunk it all
Less than half a weeks salary for some footballers now
I would still rather be doing any of the above than watching the superbore
I am jealous of your two trips to boro