To paraphrase Charlie Dickens, ?it was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons?. Back in September suggesting that Arsenal weren?t going to win the title was laughable. The team was on such a role, only the margin of our victories were in question. Now eight months later we?re left scratching our heads wondering, ?what happened??
Category: Magazine Articles
April 2003
Arsenal?s fortunes in March were as schizophrenic as a BBC documentary on Lord Byron starring Eddie Izzard, directed by Guy Ritchie and written by Irvine Welsh. When the month began the club were still on target for a treble and a piece of footballing history. Our subsequent exit from the Champions League was a bit of a ?buzz kill? but the stirring victories over Everton and Chelsea in the FA Cup replay ended the month on a high note.
March 2003
Over the years that I?ve worked in sports I?ve had the opportunity to be up close to some of the biggest trophies in sports. In 1996 I worked for the New York Yankees. It was the 8th inning of game six and there I was, sitting in a small room underneath the stadium, just me and the World Series trophy. Last year, I poked my head into a conference room at work and there was hockey?s Stanley Cup. And just last week I got a look at an Olympic gold medal up close. But the Gooners in Southern California got one up on me during the first week in March as the FA Cup and English Premiership trophies came to the left coast.