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Your mum seems in good form.

Yeah.

She OK?

Not really.

The last home game, last season?

What about it?

They were f***ing rubbish.

F***ing rubbish last year

and the year before.

They'll be f***ing

rubbish this year, too.

And next year.

And the year after that.

I don't know

why you come, Frank.

You live in hope.

What d'you reckon?

Think they're bad as Frank says?

This is his first time.

Hope he knows what he's

lettin' himself in for.

Have a look at the number eight.

Jon Sammels.

Remember his face

and if you happen

to bump into him,

tell him to sod off to Spurs!

Programmes!

Programmes!

Go on, give it a shove.

Someone hasn't been

eating their greens.

Wey-hey!

We're in "Y", OK?

Yeah.

What d'you reckon?

When's the next game?

Week after next, probably.

Let's have a look.

Yeah, Sunderland.

They're away at Leeds next week.

Can we come to the

Sunderland game, Dad?

You might wanna go

somewhere different.

If you're gonna be

a football fan,

think carefully about

who you're gonna follow.

Look.

For f***'s sake, Arsenal!

Get it!

Sammels, you're a f***ing idiot!

Sort yourself out!

That was a brilliant goal,

wasn't it, Dad?

It was pretty good, yeah.

What happened?

It was a penalty,

the goalie saved it

then the man

who missed the penalty

had another go and scored.

- Terry Neill?

- That's right.

- He's good, isn't he?

- Fantastic.

I'm off, then.

See you next week.

Let's go.

Come on.

Why do we have to leave?

Beat the traffic.

Long walk back to the car,

we'll be stuck for hours.

But they might score again.

There's a remote possibility.

But it won't be this afternoon.

Joke. If you're an Arsenal fan,

you get used to jokes like that.

I will.

Who d'you think played best?

Dunno. But Sammels was rubbish.

I don't think so.

Crowd didn't understand

what he was trying to do.

They were on to him

before he'd done anything wrong.

- I disagree.

- Oh, you do?

One afternoon at football,

you're Kenneth Wolstenholme.

Who did YOU think

played the best?

Might make an Arsenal defence

of them yet, Robert.

Yes, sir.

Em, sir, you going

to Highbury next week?

- Nah.

- Oh.

'Course I'm going.

Want me to get you

a programme?

It's cash in advance.

I've been caught too many times.

No, it's not that.

Em...

could I come with you?

That'd be a bit difficult.

To be honest,

between you and me,

- I go to the pub first.

- I could wait outside.

I stand on the North Bank.

You wouldn't see.

- I'd go down the front.

- Your mum'd love that.

She says I have to go

with a responsible adult.

Saturday's the one

day of the week

when I'm NO a responsible adult.

I turn into someone your age.

Not as sensible.

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