Right. And we just didn't want to say anything, hurt anyone's feelings.
Originally Posted by Burney
Right. And we just didn't want to say anything, hurt anyone's feelings.
"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."
This strikes me as the most likely explanation. We just assumed it was somewhere vaguely civilised, never imagining that UEFA would hold a European final in some tinpot dictatorship for which it's hard to obtain visas and which discriminates against Armenians (whatever tthey are). And, by the time we looked it up (ie at about half time in the second leg of the semi) it was too late.
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