It's football, innit. Banter, as the chap grudgingly accepts.
The thing is, there are now too many people on the bandwagon who neither know, nor care for either customary cultural phenomenon. This is both good and bad. On the one hand, we get lots of extra cash for shiny new, sixty million pound goal-shy centre forwards; the downside is all the pearl-clutching and pulling away of skirts whenever football passes by and behaves the way football has always been wont to do
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
When I was young and full of rage
I hated Tottenham to the core
But now I've reached a gentler age
I hate the fùckers even more.