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never heard of this guy before, but after seeing his pic i now realise i had the pleasure of sitting behind him in rome this year! he had a little notebook pad which he was scribbling every detail on to. very quirky character but a true gooner.
matthewadam123 wrote:Used to see Knowledge at every home game and had many chats as I am in the FE with my son and he also used to collect teamsheets and hang around near the press. At the Rushden friendly last year, Knowledge was in the glass fronted press box on his own and was very pleased with himself !
Spot on description in post above -
"He was often scurrying around looking very hot and bothered trying to get programmes, team sheets or press passes so he could sit in the press area.
Every time I met him he would always be laden down with carrier bags and a big heavy electronic typewriter."
A picture of Knowledge from the Barnet game in 2008.
RIP - and yes a character gone, shame.
Cheers for that Photo' Matt.
He is clearly a man who goes back a long way. I used to attend a lot of the away games in to '70s and '80s - very infrequently now - but his pic' kinda rings a bell.
It's great that our Club - and frankly others too - but especially ours attracts people like that.
Individuals who seek nothing for themselves but come rain or shine, come hell or high water, they are always there. It's their life and they give nothing less than everything they have and all they can, to it.
The sad thing is that they are often not seen until they are gone. If you follow me. But as others say above - all part of our great Club's noble tradition. And all the greater for enduring, through the seasons, out of the lime light.
Let's hope we can do him proud by putting ourselves back at the top, where we belong, come next May.
I've known of Mr Knowledge's presence in the Arsenal family for almost as long as I've been going to football. I saw him at all the away matches as I started to attend them and hang. I don't really remember talking to him much and if I did it was in those early nineties years. I remember seeing him at an Oxford Utd evening reserve match in headington when I was studing at Oxford. I don't know where he lived but imagine it was not the short distance I travelled that night.
Good to see the Club reverted to type and showed proper class by giving Knowledge a nice Obituary in the programme under the 'Voice of Arsenal' column.
Well done to them for that
But what shocked me was that they said he was 45. They presumably got that from his sister so that must be right.
In which case he's at least 10 years younger than I had him marked down in my mind as
In fact that makes him younger than me
Sounds a selfish thing to say but things like that pull you up short
Rob wrote:
He is clearly a man who goes back a long way. I used to attend a lot of the away games in to '70s and '80s - very infrequently now - but his pic' kinda rings a bell.
It's great that our Club - and frankly others too - but especially ours attracts people like that.
Individuals who seek nothing for themselves but come rain or shine, come hell or high water, they are always there. It's their life and they give nothing less than everything they have and all they can, to it.
The sad thing is that they are often not seen until they are gone. If you follow me. But as others say above - all part of our great Club's noble tradition. And all the greater for enduring, through the seasons, out of the lime light.
Let's hope we can do him proud by putting ourselves back at the top, where we belong, come next May.
What a classy eulogy. Thank you Rob and R.I.P. Knowledge.
