Are you supporting your team?

I have been on Twitter for about a year now and follow a lot of football fans, predominantly Arsenal fans, but others too.

I support Arsenal – I don’t have a season ticket, I am what you might call an armchair fan.  So I don’t consider myself an Arsenal expert – I have my opinions, I get angry and upset when things go wrong and get euphoric when things go well.  Sometimes I find it so stressful I can’t watch them play at all.

I have been an avid football fan since the 1970s – my love affair with football started with the Chelsea v Leeds FA Cup final in 1970 (yes I am that old!).  I don’t remember the game as such (I was only 5!), but I do remember the atmosphere in the house.  FA Cup final day was always a big event in our house.  We always picked a team to back if our team wasn’t in the final and we spent the whole day winding each other up.  Do you remember It’s a Knock Out on cup final day? 

My father was and is an avid Coventry City fan and it went without saying that we children would do the same – ironically all the girls supported Coventry, but my brothers supported other teams.  I have a lasting memory of my dad coming back from the 1987 cup final when Coventry beat Spurs!  He had gone on his own, but came back very drunk and a changed man!! There’s only one Gary Mabbutt!!!

In the 80s and even into the 90s girls weren’t supposed to like football.  My favourite pub game was listening to the “men” discussing football and then seeing their faces when I showed off my footballing knowledge.  They hated it!!

I love football – wherever it is being played and by whom.  I could easily stop and watch a game in the local park and often do.

I support football.