The Crow - Everybody knows where they were when Brum scored
Published: 3 March, 2011
ARSENAL
SUNDAY? When was that? Seems ages ago.
No, can’t think what I was doing on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday. What was I watching? The EastEnders omnibus?
A Bond film? That programme with Nicky Campbell asking vicars and rabbis questions like: “Are buses really more important than religion?” and “Would you vote for a cat if you could?” Nothing else happened.
I know there was a bit of pretending to be younger than I am by watching men older than me using unintelligible bus slang to introduce repeats of Friends on T4. That was it! That’s what I did on Sunday. It was the one where Chandler is in a box. Or Joey had a turkey on his head. And then Chandler was in a box AND Joey had a turkey on his head.
NOTHING else happened. Nothing.
The main drama of the day was that some pizza delivery leaflets came through the door and I picked them up and looked at them. I put them in the drawer with the others.
Nothing else happened.
I opened the fridge door a couple of times to check everything was still there. It was. That was it. Sunday over. Nothing else happened.
There was no trip to Wembley. There was no awful, awful mix-up between an Arsenal defender and the goalkeeper in the last minute. There were no Birmingham City fans celebrating all around me, dancing to UB40. None of that happened. Tell me, tell me that did not happen.
RICHARD OSLEY
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
ARSENAL’S loss to Birmingham in the Carling Cup on Sunday felt as good as a Tottenham win.
Many might think it’s because they’re supposed to be the enemy, but it’s not that at all. It’s because for five years they’ve disrespected this competition by fielding teams of young players who when they win, fans boast about it, and when they don’t, fans make the excuse that it’s only their youth team.
They even re-named it “The Worthless Cup” because Spurs won it. Well how worthless does it feel now?
There can be no excuses for this loss because apart from the injured Walcott and the supposedly rested Fabregas, it was pretty much a full strength team. Every fan experiences losing but this loss was made all the more sweet for knowing how much the Gooners wanted it, some will say needed it!
I could really stick it to Arsenal fans now (I can hear the Spurs fans saying “go on!”) but I’ll take the higher ground because for every supporter of a London team and all the neutrals among you that dislike the continued arrogance of Arsenal supporters, this game will now become folklore. A lesson to all to be careful about what you say, lest those words come back to haunt you.
So anytime a Gooner uses the old adage, “we’ve got bigger fish to fry,” remind them, in graphic detail, of the 89th minute when almost every fan in the country cheered their downfall.
TONY DALLAS