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Originally Posted by sdkammeyer
I'm also a pretty big Arsenal supporter out of the EPL. Here in the states most of the English Premiere league matches are televised.
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I live fairly close to Arsenal and occasionally go the games there. Unfortunately, it is fairly atmosphere-less which is generally the case in the EPL and has been that way for twenty years+ ..... ever since standing was abolished post the Hillsborough disaster.
Moving to London, I thought I'd really get into going to EPL games but I haven't. Just too commercial and too modern for me I guess. For me, my football life and memories are always related to the 1980s when I was a kid and, well, it was a coming of age for me.
From 1996 to 2004, I rarely missed a Northern Ireland away game - I think I saw them in over 40 countries in that time. This game, at home in Belfast, was one of my favourites and bizarre to think it's now 20 years ago. Atmosphere that night was truly electric:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Bt18Rvv4