arsenal
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“… unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness.” 1 Corinthians 1:23 ‘You can’t remember whether life is shit because Arsenal is shit, or if it’s the other way around.’ Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch We each forge our own hybrid identities which often make little sense to either ourselves or to others. Witness… Read more
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In the quest for the good life, just over a year ago I took a pledge, an open-ended vow of abstinence, a sabbatical from one of my irrational, unnecessary obsessions. Before then, Arsenal’s vicissitudes would punctuate my days, background noise to my own personal meanderings, successes, failure, pratfalls. When dad took me occasionally to Highbury… Read more
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Never mind a DVD of goals of the season, the corporate merchandise I most want to see right now is a compendium of self-induced footballing implosions, what future generations might refer to as ‘arsenalisations’. It would review the variable confection of sendings-off, long term injuries, defensive panic, own goals which characterise the era of late… Read more
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