To be sick of all the Arsenal celebrations??

I’m back on to vent!

So, a friend just sent me the confirmed parade route and we’re firmly in it and close to the flashpoints. Have we received anything from the council? No. Are there signs up on our road? No.

We’re now scrambling to move our car somewhere safe for the weekend, like to the tune of £100 for an NCP car park. We’ll have to clear our front garden of anything nice but also brace ourselves for piss up our wall, someone scaling the wall, and plenty of bottles being lobbed over.

I am shocked the council are just doing FA about any of this. People aren’t being allowed to gather at the Emirates…so, yeah, protect yourselves and fuck everyone else, isn’t it?

I posted our local FB group pointing out the council’s fiduciary duty to us (as well as AFC’s public liability) and got told, by a bloke, obvs, that he’d “piss up my wall”.

so, to those that say “oh, it’s just a bit of fun”…yeah, it’s not. His comment was instantly liked with people egging him on to find me that I’ve had to delete my FB account just in case. It’s terrifying.

As a Scouse football fan, this makes me really sad. I’m from a traditionally Catholic family and, with the exception of my Uncle Pete (Dad’s brother) who was corrupted and turned to the dark side by his godfather as a kid, the rest of the family (including the 4 preceding generations) are/were devout Evertonians.

It didn’t stop my Nanna (Dad’s mum) who converted to Catholicism so she could marry my Grandad, from taking my Dad and my Uncle as kids to the top of Smithdown Road/Lodge Lane to watch the big Orange Lodge parade. My Dad, now well into his 70s, still fondly reminisces about how much better the music was for these marches compared with the solemn, dire hymns they had to sit through for Sunday Mass!

Honestly, over and above our friendliness and our world famous sense of humour, the thing I’m most proud of about being a Scouser is our ability to treat football as our one true religion (Blue or Red), without ever letting that religious/political Church schism nonsense get in the way, like it has in Glasgow.

Maybe don't live in North London.

Yes,
People are celebrating all over the world
On the internet it showed people in countries such as Nigeria celebrating Arsenal’s win

Well done Arsenal I say. I love the atmosphere and bonding football brings. It’s such a universal language. My team has been relegated but we’re away camping and was listening to TalkSport yesterday (wondering who join us). A couple from a neighbouring tent came over and we got chatting - they supported a rival team - and we had a lovely hour reminiscing about pivotal games. Those memories are priceless.

As a non-football fan working just outside Finsbury Park station.
Yesterday (yes, I work Sundays) just felt like a party. Yes it was a bit loud, but honestly I almost wanted to join in

They can't open the ground, Glasgow City Council won't let the nearby park be used as a fanzone and there are barely any bins at the best of times now because people are having to use them for household waste as bin collections are down.

All that mess was gone by the morning to be fair to the council, and the numbers attending were down too thank God. It's not fair on the local businesses.

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This Is why my husband and I don’t follow football any more. The behaviour in general is disgusting. I was travelling with my 9 year old son home from London a few weeks ago and we had a young boy not much older sat opposite us swearing his head off. I tried giving him a look but he just stared me out with a smirk. His adults were standing nearby and didn’t say a word. Then at one stop he spotted some opposing fans, so got up and started shouting “CHELSEA RENT BOYS” at them out the door. The adults with him thought it was funny. Another passenger made half joking comment about the language but then they just got on with talking about the game and the vile language continued.
DH had a similar situation with a drunk, disgruntled football fan in the same carriage as him and my son. This guy made several phone calls to people, complaining about the match and used similar vile language and was generally behaving aggressively, so much so that DH didn’t feel he could remind him that there was a little boy present.
This just seems to be the given behaviour for many football supporters, it’s horrible.

I must be living under a rock. What Arsenal celebrations?

To be fair it’s been decades since the last time and will probably be as long before the next one.

No booze at the football in Scotland….too much hatred. We even have to have early kick offs when Celtic/rangers are playing to limit (as much as possible) the amount of alcohol consumed before the match. And i say that as a problem drinker myself.

It’s quietened down here in the last half hour.

For many of them, I don't suppose there's much else happening in their empty lives, but that's long been the way, sadly.

Yay, groups of men just stood about repeatedly doing some inane chants and going “wwwoooooooooooooway” from low to high. Totally acceptable.

Thats now set some dogs off.

To the PP who loves in Kent and was here for the day and found it great fun. Thats because you get to leave it.

Fireworks now and the helicopters are back

I can hear faint whooping (men) and a few cars have driven past with blokes hanging out the window cheering. I wouldn’t bet the drivers are sober.

All just a bit of fun though!

The ground isn't open for general celebrations. Ground = entire stadium.

Surely there are bars in the stadium though? I’ve only been to Twickenham for the rugby but I imagine football stadiums would be the same?

… and if you’ve read the thread you will have seen that I corrected myself

Because they actually have!

I’m sure you are aware that this level of noise and loutish, disruptive behaviour is not normal for the area. It has been happening every night since Tuesday and it’s just too much. Yeah great they are happy about the result but people have lives and work to get on with and they need some sleep. Give them a break!

We’ve already covered this earlier in the thread

Right, so for the last 120 hours it's been party central round your way? Or is there a slight possibility that you've exaggerated?

YANBU totally with you

Because we live here and have eyes and ears?