We usually remember events of our past remember some event
bind at this moment. Here Nick Hornby relate his live
recalling the seasons of his football team, Arsenal of
London. English team, with a vast history replete of
victories, defeats, ghosts, evils, angels, nightmares and
dreams.
Every chapter come announced for a football match,
since the year seventy-eight to the year ninety-two. The
love at first sight with Arsenal after the first match in
the Highbury Stadium, the adventures of a teenager confuse,
dream with the matcher during all the night before the
game, the first failed love and unforgettable, the travels
around all the United Kingdom and Europe fallow the team,
born in a goal of the stadium for after grow old in the
tribune, lost the Cup final ante a rival of second
division, the firsts songs that go mad, the celebration of
the titles, the loses of one girl for a match, the players
that get dirty the red vest or the gladiators that lose her
souls in the battle fields for the sheepskin jacket of
the “Gunners”, nickname of the Arsenal.
When I was nine years old a saw the first match of
Arsenal, a final of the Recopa against Valencia in the year
ninety. The Arsenal lost in the penalties lot. I remember
see the English players crying, this day I asked to my
mother for a red vest, looks like the “Gunners”. She
didn’t found none and she give me a red pyjama, pantaloon
to the knees and short sleeved. With this night uniform I
was player in my village until I grew up and I saved in the
trunk of the memories. This day I fell in love of Arsenal,
after read this book I decide married with him.