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It's a mad story that, isn't it?

But I mean, listen, this is not a sports radio program or indeed station.

But that Southampton, I mean, first of all, Arsenal, well, fantastic news.

Absolutely.

I was there.

Well, not there.

But I got off the train in Islington last night.

And I found myself thinking, what's going on? Because there was about, I don't know, a couple of

dozen people wearing arsenal scarves. And I thought there's no game tonight. There's no

Arsenal game tonight. Because if there is, my chain would have been absolutely chocker.

That was the timings involved.

And as I'm walking to the King's Head Theatre to see a wonderful new play that Rosie Holter's put on

called Churchill's urinal,

I realise, of course they're just going to watch the City-Bormmouth game in the pub.

And then the play finished, and after a warming warming libation I'm making my way back to the

station and I get to the corner I get to Highbury Corner just as the sort of last five minutes

of the City Bournemouth game are unfolding and it was a surreal because Highbury Corner is full

of people watching the football through the window of the old cock pub.

And there was a festival atmosphere there.

So I thought, well, I'll have a bit of this because I'm a big fan of sort of emotional osmosis.

I love being in the middle of emotional crowds, even if I'm not emotionally invested that heavily in the moment myself.

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