Wednesday 14 February 2007

The thing about me and football

The thing about me and football is that I'm a passionate, but terribly nervous spectator.

Watching a game involves tension, stress, palpitations, hiding behind cushions, swearing at the commentators, swearing at the ref, swearing at the opposition, swearing at the managers, swearing at the players, changing channels and, more often than not, finding pretexts to run out of the room because I can't bear to watch.

Tonight is no exception. Arsenal just let Bolton equalise in the 91st minute of a match. I'm angry, nervous and super-stressed and I simply can't cope with watching extra time.

Why couldn't they just hang onto their lead, and give me some hope of being able to get to sleep tonight?

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