It is true to say that while I made a natural Arsenal supporter -- I too was often dour, defensive, argumentative, repressed -- my father belonged at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea were flamboyant, unpredictable and, it has to be said, not the most reliable of teams; my father had a taste for pink shirts and theatrical ties, and, stern moralist that I was, I think I felt that he could have done with a little more consistency.
They live in New York City. They dress foppishly. They're in an electropop band. They are Arsenal through and through.
I'm pretty sure this combination of things has never existed in anyone else through the course of human history.
Ooh, to be a hipster?
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Gooner Book Club: Words of Wisdom
Nick Hornby on Arsenal fans v Chelsea fans:
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