Ashburton Grove
Referee: Mike Dean
Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea 21 April 2012
For the past
two seasons, my birthday and the Arsenal tend to mean one thing. Or more
specifically, one point. A few seasons back it was a drab nil-nil versus a Man
City side clearly uninterested in getting off the bus, so they just parked it
in our ground. Last year it was a shambolic display against Spurs, where we
dropped a two goal lead and I ended up sharing a slice of the cake the Kaiser
brought with some of the spudlings there after spending a good chunk of that
match screaming obscenities at them. Not a lot was different this time around,
except there was no cake.
I arrived at
the Factory for the early kick-off and made my way downstairs, a Dogfish from
Liam in hand, to discover about a dozen chavskis huddled around and not an NY
Gooner in sight. In trickled Barry, Ed, the Captain, Rashida and Chandler one
by one, the last two opting to take in the match upstairs to avoid the chavs.
Probably a good idea and had I remembered properly at the time, it was upstairs
with Liam when we tonked them 5-3. We must have used
up all the goals in that game.
