Looking down from above
I've never sat so close to the screen!
The girlfriend and ardenashley
On Wednesday evening I went to the Arsenal game, which by itself is nothing odd, but this time I did so in the company of a pair of lovely ladies: the girlfriend, and Ashley. The girlfriend has been before a couple of times, but I think this was Ashley’s first experience of a British football match.
We didn’t sit anywhere near my usual seat, but were instead way up in the Gods in one of the corners. It’s a hell of a view, and it’s very different from my usual perspective. You can really see the tactics at play, and get a better feel for how the game’s flowing.
Having said that, I love where I sit normally, because the atmosphere is miles better in the lower tier than the upper (although Wednesday was pretty loud, admittedly). And I can see the whole pitch perfectly well, because I’m a few rows back from the immediate front.
At one point, Ashley said that she really enjoyed the atmosphere, all the singing and passion. It’s very different from American sports, apparently, particularly our aptitude and appetite for swearing at the tops of our voices…
