Howdy!
As stated in my profile, one of my favourites hobby is watching football and my favourite team is Arsenal FC in the Premiership (uk)

A little story about this hobby.
Back in early 2000, I was living in France and was working part time jobs there and there but nothing to make me "rich" and even pay me some hollidays and one day I met a guy who asked me if I wanted to work in UK in a full time job and indeed I was excited by the idea and said YES.

Then I moved to UK, I remember these days, for me football was just 22 guys running after a ball with thousands of people encouraging them to do so.... silly and then once day I was off and my boss told me if I wanted to watch a game in a stadium... not really kind of being in the middle of hundreds of mad fans swearing and all but he told me that he was a sponsor of that team and he got VIP ticket to watch all games so I say, why not? It was not a big stadium, Ipswich town have about 21 000 seats but was just on the side middle height, a really good seat to watch the game.
When I got in, I heard a strong noise, what was that? hundreds of fans singing and having a hell of a good time, I was surprised, it was pleasant to see all these people united to a funny mood... The game started and I have to say that what I have discovered was nothing compare to xhat I though, it was just great, everytime a player had a ball chants and rants were coming from all parts of the stadium, nothing bad at all and actually I found it quite amusing as I surprised myself shouting at players that I never hear of... strange but from that day I wanted to know a bit more about football.

After watching a few games, one day, my boss told me that the next game would be against Arsenal and I should like the team as the manager is french and a few players also and that this team, Arsenal, probably had the best football around, I was really excited, it was a away game and so we went to north london at Highbury to watch the game.... 38500 seats and a fantastic atmosphere, I never seen that before (well yes in 1998 when france won the world cup but I was in a pub) game started, it was then against Leicester. After a few minutes I was in love with that team, pace, attacking style, near perfect football.

I remember these days when players came in and we could hear names like Tony Adams, martin Keown, David Seaman and Ian Wright to quote some of them and another player called Patrick Viera who was just transfered from AC milan, it was Arsenal first french young player to join Wenger's army.

Since then every weekend my heart is beating arsenal, it doesn't matter if I can watch the game or not, I just dream about another victory.

I hope you like that story and stay tuned, more stories and decriptions about Arsenal FC and players is coming

Thank you for your time