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Arsenal

When I have nothing important to do I’m usually reading football. Yes, reading football. For those of you who don’t understand this, it is about scavenging the internet and hard copies for football news and gossip. For an ardent lover of the beautiful game and a great fan of the best footy club in the world; Arsenal, watching alone can not quench the thirst. Reading football has made me a better fan, now I understand quite a lot about the game and how it is played. I played football in college but it is far from pro football by a country mile. Now talking about fan’ship’ we have got three sets of fans: There are those I rate as below average, the ones who are waiting for a goal to cheer. To them a good match is one laden with goals and crazy foot works, a goalless draw despite the display is often dismissed as a dull game. These fans are especially active when major tournaments like world cup, Euro, and Africa Cup come around. They know very little about football outside match-days a