UP THE ARSENAL

Well the time had come to visit the new home of football. It was a cold night when Sam, Zoe and I undertook the long drive and tube ride to The Emirates Stadium to watch us play CSKA Moscow.

I had been to Highbury so many times both as a kid and with the kids, so this was going to be something mighty strange. I looked at the Transport for London website to find where was best to get off the tube, they told me Holloway Road instead of Arsenal. What the forget to tell you is that the bastards close Holloway Road tube station on match days.

The stadium is fantastic, the seats are a good size, and padded. We were seven rows from the front out wide to the left of the goal. The match itself was crap. A very boreing 0 - 0 draw.

Getting home took for ever. The Police stop you from getting in the station in groups of more than a few dozen, do with 60,000 people there you can guess the length of the queue!!!! It was then an hour on the tube and 80 minutes drive home, all for a crap 0 - 0 draw! Why do I bother!