I ATTENDED my 1st Arsenal match in the press box!

Deluded Gooner
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Sep 15, 2024
Aye, I'm holding this properly. As you can see, beginning my walk down Finsbury Park
towards the Emirates Stadium. It's Arsenal against Brighton. It's 12.30 kick-off
setting. It's obviously with Sam Raheem Sterling. We're coping with an injury to Mikel Moreno.
So, yeah, man. Early predictions, I'm going to say 3-1 Arsenal, man. I think it's written in
the stars. Danny Welbeck scores. I'm going for a Martinelli goal, you know. Tross out as well.
You know what? Yeah, man. Arsenal 3-1 Brighton. My bottle almost dropped. Not that you've got to
have the rum, but yeah, man. Arsenal 3-1 Brighton. Tross out to bag against his former team.
Martinelli on the score sheet. You know what? Go on, then. Can't have a sacker between you
lot. Sort it out, man. But yeah, bow. Aye, mad thing. Mad thing. I'm home, man. I always show
you lot this when I'm bopping through. When I'm bopping through. Aye, these mics are moving mad.
This camera's getting blurry and that. But yeah, man. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. Can't
you see the excitement on my face? But I had like two hours sleep on that, people. I swear,
if Arsenal let me down today, I'm going to go mad. God, the stairs is going to kill me, bro.
The stairs is killing me, but if I do the walkway, man. Out of my fights on that, man. I'm dying.
I'm dying. Nonetheless, let's continue the bocce. I'm trying to serve people. I'm trying to
do my thing. I've got to skip past this. But we're there. We're there for the girls.
For the girl, he said. Whatever you want to call it. We've got Sterling in his ear now.
I'm probably breathing all mad. See what I go through to bring you lot.
Eat one, two little bits of content, vlogging that. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, the walkway. I'm
not going to lie. This is the most nostalgic bit for me, man. Both making this little bocce.
If I'm honest, where am I? I'm in the media box. I don't know where that is, but one problem at a
time, you know. Right now, I'm going to have to deal with the content. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Let me go down there and bird's eye view on that for you lot.
See? The camera knew to pattern up. Knew to pattern up. Knew to pattern up. You get me?
Yeah, man. Yeah, man. All of that, man. But yeah, man. Today, we need to get three points,
innit? It's as simple as that. I've got six because of my foreign fans. You might not see
these kind of things. It's nothing to me, but it's a luxury to me, I should say. But yeah,
fan day. We're losing today, mate. We're done now. We're done now.
I'm excited. This is nostalgic. I don't know who that is, but done now. We've got the people
getting paid and that. It's nice not to be noticed for once as well, but I haven't heard
all deleted. As much as I appreciate the support, I'm a normal person, man. I know the vibes.
Had a half and half scarf. I don't know about that. Leave that for the kids. I don't know what
music's playing, but I don't know. Let me get some scenery for the fans, then. Let me get some
scenery for the fans, then. What's this? There's some camera, camera thing. I don't know about
that. But yeah, man. I know the vibes already. Want me to go down for you lot? We'll go down
for you lot. Yeah, man. There's the Dennis Bergkamp statue over there. I've wanted for so
long to get a picture of this on a match day. You can see the Arsenal fans. Bearing in mind,
people, it's a bit early. Gunnarsurus over there and that. Too old for all of that, but yeah,
man. Kids, if you want to go do up Gunnarsurus, you can do up Gunnarsurus. Any big, grown-ass
man or woman doing that, serious question marks. Serious question marks. You can see the Arsenal
store. People going into the store. Obviously, there's a yard shop over there. Just jerk. Pause.
Make sure you go check that out. And fans just taking in the atmosphere, man. Taking in the
atmosphere. Oh, grown man in the formal kit. Fucking dickhead. But yeah, we're there, we're
there. Big up the hustlers. Big up the hustlers. Hustling. Hustling, hustling, hustling. One
bacon. You don't know about that. Where's the media? I'm in the media bit today, people. So,
yeah, man, I have to kind of keep my voice down. But yeah, man, you can have a quick look around
just to get a vague idea of where I am. Oh, wow, I'm leaving this. You see, I'm all over the place.
But yeah, media settings. I saw Stuart Pearce. This is a madness, people. I can't lie to you,
I'm not used to this. Now, the first thing's pre-game is obviously there's no Mikel Moreno.
There's no Mikel Moreno. Sterling could play no part. Leto could play no part. So, one does wonder
what does our bench look like? As I said earlier, I'm going with a 3-1 win for us. I don't think
Welbeck will score. I think we'll get three points. I don't think we'll score the goals.
We need to get nine from nine. What I mean by that is from the first three games, nine points.
I'm feeling like one of the Jedilitz brothers. You know what? I could be the next Darren Lewis.
This is kind of wavy, you know? This is kind of wavy. Who's that? Is that Mikel Ortega? No,
I'm joking. Yeah, pre-game, obviously, you know what to expect from Brighton. They play good
football, an expansive brand. They're very attack-minded. They will give us chances like us,
but we're going to have to take ours. They can cut you open if you switch off in a second and
they can kill you in the transition. So, I'm expecting a tough game, expecting it to be a
very tough game. I actually personally will say I think it's our biggest test so far this season.
Obviously, Aston Villa, Unai Emery, Champions League, they're a very difficult side to play
against, but I just think Brighton will try and come here and spoil the day. And with it being a
12.30 kick-off, hopefully the boys have had a lot of sleep. I know Edu hasn't had much, but yeah.
It's time, man. I'm in the media a bit. I'm in the media a bit. I won't show my face, but yeah.
Come on, boys.
Are you starting from the training ground or are you going to have a dig, Saka?
That's one thing I don't want to see Sterling do. I don't want to see him take three kicks.
The thing is, they're going to get out quick. I wonder if they give it Odegaard. Odegaard gives
it back. Yeah, I really hope Odegaard crashes it. Oh, gosh. Okay, maybe Saka shouldn't take these
things. I think Odegaard's the best out of the club, man. On his day, this guy just sees football
differently. Look, see? Kyle Saka is killing that Hazelwood kid each and every time. I mean,
if Saka could still out his shooting boots, we might have scored. Odegaard could have had a
condense and congested right inside. To be fair, we've started well.
You know, they're dropping in. We're killing the Hazelwood guy, but it could be well.
How many times are we going to get fouls? Saka's been hitting his head. Chossak was
hitting his head on the other side. An elbow even. Look, looking at the replay.
Since when can you do that again? Lovely, lovely. They've got Saka.
Wondering if Rice is going to be in problems here. Don't touch him, Rev.
VAR, because Rice has been kicked. Has he sent him off? That guy lashed out at Rice.
Wait, Rice has a red card.
VAR surely got to get involved. No, VAR has to get involved.
Rev, only refs are allowed to go upwards. How has Rice been sent off with that?
An absolute disgrace. They've drawn back into it. Poor defending, to be fair for us.
Raise your heads, man. It's a mess at that, man. Pure desire. Timber wants to carry on.
Timber, the gaffer don't care, bro. The gaffer don't care, bro. Come on, Zinni, please.
So, what's going on? Oh, Chris Kavanagh, you're a con, man. In life, we have to control the
controllables. We didn't kill the game, we'll take our half chances, but the referee ruined it.
Ain't that some bullshit? Bullshit. Big up bodyguard, still out here. My guy, my captain.
Jesse Stewart-Pearce and that. Some mad ting in there, man. Taking it all in, lad.
Like David Osteen. Look, look, look. He's upgraded now. Hey, man. Hey, man.
I'm trying to be like you, Mr. Pearce.
