Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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The roles of the different football clubs is a bit hard to fathom, even for natives like me. Some clubs have more of a reputation for violence (e.g. Milwall), but I couldn't have sworn Arsenal were necessarily one of them.
Basically, the rule that any club which isn't yours is to be denigrated applies here as much as anywhere else. Maybe the writer supports Spurs or somebody.
Nick Hornby is an Arsenal supporter; I can highly recommend Fever Pitch as an introduction to all that this entails.
[Side note: ita, I know you're a Graham Norton connoisseur. I don't always watch, but last Friday's episode with Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch was an absolute classic.]
Ooh, thanks, Fiona. I'm not going to lie--when I heard the lineup, I had a few moments of "there's an interesting pair--oh." Very curious now.
I figure they used Arsenal because Americans have heard of them? I mean, I think they have. In my day (you know) Chelsea was the oh-fuck-hooligans team. I had Saturday job in Chelsea, and there was one match scheduled that finished during shop hours and...all the shops locked their doors. We actually stood there stony-faced as passers-by tried to find stores to duck into, but I didn't even have keys.
I swear, I feared for my safety more often and more culturally in London than in Kingston (not upon Thames).
I just finished Broadchurch. It is really good, but a bit slow for the first 6 episodes (out of 8).I feel like the show could have been cut in half. Broadchurch is what the US "The Killing" should have been, but it is probably too short for AMC.
The last episode is just absolutely brutal.
I said to Beau during the 2nd ep, man the killer better not be "that person" and it was. But the way they handled it was devastating.
ita !, were you in Toronto in '93? That's the year I lived in London.
The only team I could name would be Manchester United.
ita !, were you in Toronto in '93? That's the year I lived in London
Toronto?
93 was split between Montreal and Detroit. I lived in the UK from 81-87.
eta: I was a pretty solid Spurs fan, inasmuch as I liked football. I much preferred cricket, though, and was all Somerset all the time.
ARGH. Why did I say Toronto? I can remember McGill, but not the name of the city?!
There's also love for Liverpool on this board. (Although I believe they should (1) sell Luis Suarez, (2) use the money to buy a good defender, preferably one who won't lose a month or more every season to suspension, and (3) recall Andy Carroll from loan.)
Blimey, 11 years later and we still haven't made it to 10,000 posts in here. :D
Maybe you can remedy that.