Interpolic

Yeah, I got the impression with these lot that they picked and choosed when Arsenal was a part of their lives if you know what I mean. But they still shouted and all that as if they were fanatical about their football team. All talk and no substance, sums up a lot of the folk down here pretty well. Maybe i just experienced a bad, uncommited bunch today (this was Kingston not North London after all) but I wanted to leave the pub except for the fact that every other pub was showing the rugby! Rugby! You know, over football, mental. I can't remember ever being as arrogant when Newcastle were in the top 4. I expected to win sometimes but I never went on like it was a divine right and spoke like such an idiot about the opposition.

I live in Kingston in Surrey atm and therefore watched this with a bunch of Arsenal 'fans'. Every last one of them was clueless. When it was 0-0, this absolute knacker-job behind me goes "just cos they're still drawing with us, the Newcastle fans think they're doing really well". And when we had a half-opening and our fans were encouraging us to go forward he was going "what they getting excited about?" in a mocking tone. The arrogance of them all was astonishing. If I'd been a bit more drunk and a bit less depressed I'd have turned around and said "that's not the f***ing point is it? We're third bottom, you're fourth top, we need any break we can get and you haven't any idea what you're on about". But as I say I was sober and wary and what difference would it have made? Instead I sat there and told my disinterested girlfriend that the pub was full of gobshites. I should say at this point that this lad only arrived at the pub at half time. When they scored the pub went mental. When we scored soon after I shouted YES, GETTTIN! The moron behind me shut up about Newcastle fans when he realised where I was from but was still a complete dick regardless. I'd have loved to have won if only to have surpressed their general smugness, but of course it means a hell of a lot more to me and to all of you than that. I guess my general point is that I hate that I couldn't have been up there today even though we lost. It completely depresses me that some clubs have far better teams than their fans deserve and vice versa. Our fans are not perfect but I'm certain that we care more than most. Maybe somehow with some twisted logic at play, that's to our detriment. But I can't for the life of me see how that works.