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My whole family is very keen on football, except for my mother and my sister, though
my sister has had her moments. My brother supports Everton because his favourite
player was Gary Lineker and he liked the colour of their shirts. My father is from
north London and Is a keen Arsenal fan and I was an Arsenal fan really before I was
old enough to know anything about it. My brother, sister and I were brought up in
Durham so I find myself continually justifying why I support Arsenal and that’s one of
the reason I’ve chosen to tell this story.
One of the most memorable nights of my life was on the last day of the 1989 season,
It was Arsenal versus Liverpool at Anfield and Arsenal had to win 2-0 to win the
league on goal difference. Alan Smith scored a contentious first goal with a glancing
header from an indirect free kick. And then in the last minute of the game Michael
Thomas stormed through the mid field, took on three defenders and then poked the
ball past Bruce Grobelar.
The celebration was fantastic and there was pandemonium in the Arsenal stand as
well as out living room. We’d just got a new cat at this time and we’d joked that we’d
name it after the Arsenal played who scored the winning goal, not really expecting
that Arsenal would win 2-0 and win the league. My brother had wanted to name the
cat after an Everton player but consoled himself by pretending that the cat was
named after his middle name, Thomas rather than Michael Thomas, the Arsenal
legend.
