North London Forever!

I never turned down, very rarely turn down and people take the trouble to invite.

It's usually a good idea to say yes.

Myself, Kuba and Maja and Ciaran schlepped off.

We were put up by my great friends Emma and Paul in London a couple of Sundays ago.

We got an early flight to Gatwick and we then made our way up to North London.

Now I had been with Chiron over the years to see the champion the last final they were in in 2006,

they'd gone over to Paris.

So they were all decked out in their Arsenal gear and even at the train stations and at the Gatwick airport lots of people were engaging with them and I think Arsenal also cut a lot of slack because they'd been knocking on the door for 21 odd years And so it was really extraordinary.

So we got off at Gatwick.

We got the train into North London.

We went up to Finsbury.

And the day was just so beautiful.

It was 30 degrees plus.

And there was just this febrile air of total celebration, I'd have to say.

Now, it's celebration mainly by middle-aged men with a few drinks on them.

So there's the codiceal straight away.

But if you can get your way past that, it suddenly became a real celebration.

And they hadn't yet had the Champions Cup final, so it was the perfect time.

They'd just won, and this was their last match.

So we gathered at the stadium, the new Arsenal stadium, And we were there to watch the match on the TV because I think they were playing Crystal Palace and then have their trophy given to them.

So this was a really big deal.

It's very rare.

The last time I expressed this was when Barcelona took on Arsenal in the Champions League final in Paris in the Parc des Princes.

which sadly they lost also.

But there was that atmosphere of the Barcelona fans, but he was just the Arsenal fans.