10. To take the place of watching Henry weave through a defense, you watch old ladies in wheelchairs weave their way through the grocery store.
9. Everytime your son hits a batter in Little League, you claim you didn’t see it.
Date: May 2004
Arsenal America In Slow News Week Mode
I’ll be out of town this week, so updates will be limited. For those of you who inquired about the Season Review DVD, I’ll try to get some pricing from the club shortly.
Cheers.
The ArsenalAsia Adventure Continues
Ed. Note – You think you got it tough following Arsenal in San Fran or Seattle? Try following tehr Arse in Asia. J Waldman recounts his championship story…
I just got back from China yesterday and I had some interesting football related experiences. First off, I had posted on BigSoccer that they wouldn’t be showing the Leicester match here. As it turned out, Star Sports reshuffled the lineup to include it Saturday night. I was all geared up to watch it, until I got to the hotel in Xiaolan (it’s in southern China…I’m not even sure exactly where). No Star, no internet, no match for me. I ended up watching Liverpool/Newcastle and waiting for updated scores, but I fell asleep at halftime and never saw a final result. It wasn’t until late Sunday night that I finally got my hands on a newspaper…all in Chinese. I took it downstairs and asked a guy we were working with to translate the scores for me. He looked over it and said that Arsenal lost 2-1. Turns out he misread the paper and gave me the Villa/Man U score. Of course I didn’t know it at the time, so immediately my trip was ruined. Just on a hunch though, I had my aunt (who’s Taiwanese) read over it. This time, I got the result I was looking for: Arsenal 2, Leicester 1. The trip got a whole lot better in a hurry. When we got to Shunde (also somewhere in southern China…I have to look at a map), I picked up a copy of “The South China Post” and saw that they had a big graphic with a picture of the Invincibles with the trophy and a detailed account of Arsenal’s history. Needless to say, I now have that at home and it will soon be going up on my wall.