As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
mcdowell42 wrote:My son is 5 he got his 1st arsenal shirt at 6 weeks old .have him supporting us and also have taught him to say he hates utd lpool chelsea.And for some reason he also hates wales have told him when he is older i will bring him to a game.But when he falls out with me he tells me he supports utd.
Both my lads are Arsenal. My eldest, 26, was once the youngest junior gunner at two and half months. He signed in May/June '83.
He never missed a game during '98, my youngest, 22, was once on Soccer AM Third Eye. He was caught yawning when Dixon went to take a throw in against Bradford City.
goonersid wrote:I've taken my 8 year old son over twice already, thats him on my avatar when he was 5 at the charlton game in final season at highbury, so when he grows up he can impress his Arsenal mates by telling them he has been to thof.
Well I don't often find much in common with you Sid but that's exactly what I did, I waited as long as I could until the Villa match at the end of the Final Salute season actually (even then my wee lad was only 4 1/2) so that hopefully he'd be old enough that it would be one of his first memories and would always be able to say that he'd been to THOF and it turned out to be an inspired choice, the sun was out and we tanked 'em 5-0
Unfortunately my next choice when I took him to the Grove wasn't so inspired............ the 0-1 loss to West Ham during his Easter holidays which up until Boro a few months back was still our only defeat at TNHOF and worse still we didn't even have a goal to celebrate
Forgot to add, took my lad to his first game in '88 Easter home to Leicester. we won 4-1 but we had to leave at 2-1 'cos he wanted to get back down the pub where he was polit rotton before the game. missed one of Hayte's best goals for us.
Taught my mates daughter to raise her arm whenver we said offside, she was 8 months old. Her first word was Arsenal and we'd start with 'oops a daisy Martin Hayesy . . ' and she'd finish with 'la la la la '
Got my mate in cyprus' son to do the same at 6 months. OFFSIDE!
really have to grab them young dont you,
i had all the gear when she was a baby but now i pick up some tshirts off the stalls and my mrs loves this tshirt because it says
mummys little gooner
Anyhow, back to business. Took my boy when he was 6 and he's never looked back. However he's now 15 going on 25 and suddenly going to The Arse is not as exciting when you've got girls asking you out on hot dates! Of course he'll still attend the juicy games with me although I noticed on Saturday that his language is even worse than mine and at some stage I could see him getting in trouble more than me! Keep threatning to take the wife to show her what it's all about but maybe that's good subject material for another thread ( Is your other half interested in football?!!)
i am due to be a dad for the 1st time in 8 weeks time,ive already bought the arsenal babygrows and rig(home) so if its boy or girl it wont have a choice they will be a gooner from the start
Chippy junior's first game was the 91 cup final. He was 5 and cried and cried and cried. Really impressed the people who had paid hundreds for me to go on a corporate jolly.
REBEL GOONER wrote:really have to grab them young dont you,
i had all the gear when she was a baby but now i pick up some tshirts off the stalls and my mrs loves this tshirt because it says
mummys little gooner
Great pic RG, I'll have to post one of my son also here in Arsenal gear
have told him when he is older i will bring him to a game.But when he falls out with me he tells me he supports utd.
and it turned out to be an inspired choice, the sun was out and we tanked 'em 5-0 
and worse still we didn't even have a goal to celebrate 
