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A Blue amongst the red mist

By Chris Fisher :  02/02/2011 :  Comments (21) :

At around midday Sunday I received a call from an old friend down in London asking if I would like his friend's ticket and to go to the Arsenal Everton game with him on Tuesday night, the only thing was I would be sitting in the Arsenal end? "No matter," I thought, "it can't be that bad!" And so I booked the day off and headed down to London on Tuesday.

I have been to many grounds watching Everton and have sometimes found myself having to sit with the Home fans in order to get in to the match. I have got to say that last night I have never had the misfortune of having to spend 90 minuets with the most vulgar, moaning bunch of pricks in my life.

In the first half, as Arteta was receiving treatment after Fabregas raked his studs down the back of his calf, a voice from behind me shouts "Fuck off, you Spanish twat (strange thing to say as the same bloke confessed his undying love for the Spanish Fabregas to anyone who would listen to him), I hope your son goes totally blind!" This received rather a large amount of laughter from those in ear shot and made me realise that I was in for a long night.

Phil was talking to the ref while an Arsenal player was laying dying on the floor and this riled these bunch of twats up even more "Fuck off, Phil Neville don?t have a go at him, your daughter can't even walk!" (Obviously in reference to Phils daughter who was diagnosed with Cerebral palsy and told she may of not been able to walk.) I was actually stunned!

I no longer wanted to be there and I just couldn?t believe that this sort of abuse was deemed as funny by the people around me. There?s normal football banter but this was sick, like they had actually made the effort to find things out about these people and use it to abuse them with. (I know the players couldn?t hear it but that?s not the point.)

My friend who could visibly see that I had gone from my usual happy self to quite and uncomfortable, said "I'm really sorry mate its not usually like this."

From then on there was no more disgusting abuse but the moaning began!! Saha scored and everyone was certain it was offside! Uproar all around me, the man sitting next to me assuming I was an Arsenal fan asks me "How the fuck is that not off side? He?s miles off!" I say "Not really, mate ,your defender played the ball so by the book he?s actually on side," and smiled broadly letting him know I was a bluenose.

I didn?t hear a peep out of him for the rest of the game but as for the other?s!! That was it, moaning, bitching little bastards!! As Distin launched into Song who landed in the box... "Penalty!! Penalty it has to be look at where he landed!" ? the tackle was clearly out side the box.

Walcott tries to break away and is challenged by Rodwell first and then Baines, it?s a foul but nothing more: "Red card, you have got to send him off for that, it's deliberate!"

Bilyaletdinov in there box shields the ball and the Arsenal defender kicks the ball from between his legs and off for a corner: It's clear, I'm staring straight at it, you can see it as clear as day, it's not even debatable, but all around me is uproar "How the fuck is that a corner? You wanker ref," A chant of "You don?t know what your doing" goes out around the ground. Bilyaletdinov looks at the crowd in confused amusement as if to say "For fuck's sake, come on lads, it couldn?t of been any clearer! Not one Arsenal player complained!!"

As Baines goes to take the corner, he places the ball quite close to the edge of the corner box but we all know the rule, it just has to be touching the line, that?s all, but not with this bunch of dicks! "Ref, ref, ref ? please, PLEASE look at the ball, he?s cheating, he?s cheating!!"

And so it went on for the rest of the game. I was so desperate for the boys to hang on for the 0-1 win because these fans around me deserved to have their team lose but unfortunately after their first goal, there is truly awful defending for the corner that results in the second goal and we all know the end result.

I must say though the subs Moyes made were baffling again, Neville signalled he was struggling so fair enough, he had to go off, but surely as we had gone 2-1 down, the thing to do would have been to bring Anichebe and Beckford on and push Coleman back to right back, Anichebe on the right and two upfront?!!

But instead he went like for like, Jags to right back, Anichebe to right wing, stick with 1 up front? Baffling really... but that?s not why I wanted to write this. All I know is that the next time we are at the Emirates and my mate offers me a ticket to sit with him in the Arsenal end, I will politely decline.

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