Remember his little dance when he took that free kick and Giroud scored? If I had a big lottery win I'd buy Santi just to have about the place. He could stand here on my desk like one of those football figures you used to get. But he wouldn't have a massive head.
I would love him to succeed. I just don't think the Septic will cough up enough for us ever to again.
Look what the Scousers spent. Look when GG came behind sperz. DB10 and Platt. That's what this squad needed in addition to these signings. But the yank's too tight. And if Rambo goes, we're not really much stronger than we were in Feb when Kos was fit.
I would love an AW type miracle. I just thing the Banner Chavs brigade went for the wrong target. Yes, AW was going senile, but it's the yank. He's signed off on that gree shirt without a red badge. Hope he fücking dies.
Then it clearly can't be a family thing.
I'd been bought up to love the Arsenal before I ever saw them live, or even on TV. {Back then MotD only had one match, it was always LFC and went out well beyond a 7 year old's bedtime.)
I had wrongly assumed it was like that for everyone.
We normally had French camping hols but when I was 13, we went to a hotel on Crete and it was ace and really lushly hot. But my main joy? Dad getting a Sunday paper and seeing we'd won 4-0 in the first game. The best result of any team that day. Meaning that for the first time in my life, we were top of the league on GD, even though they didn't publish the table.
sad though it may be, I love the institution of the Arsenal. Which is why I want the Spetic dead. Cos he doesn't.
I love the institution as well because it is a family thing for me, right back to to the turn of the last century. Four generations of my family on both sides stood on the terraces at Highbury so I was handed the club as a life long article of faith, instead of a religion.
It isnt like that for everyone. Doesnt mean I am more passionate or more devoted than others- it just means something a bit different.
To someone like Monty it probably does seem a bit weird. I suppose it is, in a way.