Last night there was a lot of reminiscing going over on Twitter and it brought back a few memories of my own.

Now being slightly younger than a fair few of those people who I was chatting to my memories are obviously pretty limited – but there was one memory that came quickly flooding back, the first time I ever got to see Tony Adams play.

It came as a surprise, I was just getting on with my usual Monday night routine and my Dad came to pick me up.

“Where we going Dad?”

“Going to watch Arsenal son.”

“But its a Monday night?”

“You just wait and see”

Off we went to Sixfields stadium in Northampton to watch Arsenal reserves v Northampton Town – as far as my memory can serve me it was a cold night and there was hardly anyone there. Tony Adams was just coming back from injury (presumably that back injury he had?), and was in the starting line-up.

So there we were, my Dad, an old friend of mine and a much, much, younger me. We sat in the Dave Bowen stand, the one closest to the big hill where, if you are sneaky enough, you can watch a game of football without having to pay for a ticket. Great business sense that.

I think Arsenal reserves lost 2-0 last night, but that didn’t really matter to me. It was the first time I got to see a player who’s name I had only read (or tried to) in the official Arsenal magazine. There were no Arsenal games on TV, and it was long before you could find a cheeky stream on the internet.

There isn’t much I actually remember of the game, no passages of play, nothing. That is how young I was. It doesn’t help I have a bad memory at the best of times but I do wish some more of the night would be recollected. Sadly not.

Overmars 11

I have so many memories of our club, from having a crystal clear recollection of Marc Overmars and Nicholas Anelka scoring in the 98 FA Cup Final, the pictures of the parade and open top bus after. Hell, I can even remember a commentator saying “Arsenal haven’t just won the double, they have won the double double”. You may also see the “the cream of the crop” quote in the top graphic. That was also a line from a commentator during the game. I had the TV coverage on tape, it was watched over and over and over again.

I only had one Arsenal shirt at that time, it was the 1996 away kit, I eventually had “Overmars” printed on the back and wore it everywhere.

From that there is the memory of nearly managing to seriously injure myself before the FA Cup Final in 2002, I fell of a table in the garden and straight onto a wooden garden cane. It went in just behind my ear and in all seriousness could have got very messy. Still watched the game though.

Have you got any memories similar to mine? I’ve got so many more than the ones I have written here but I’d be here all day trying to write them down.

Til tomorrow