🖊️ Our favourite readers’ letters
Two absolute standouts for us. Firstly, this one we received in January from Phil:
I saw your recent advert which featured a photo of Robbie Fowler’s infamous “snorting the touchline” celebration [see above].
Watching the game as an eight-year-old, I didn’t understand what the celebration meant. So the following week, when I scored in a match at school, I ran to the touchline, got to my knees and snorted it like a fat line of bugle.
The parents looking on were absolutely horrified, especially my own.
Second, and probably just edging it for the title, was this from Alistair, who wrote in after we mentioned the story of Bin Laden attending an Arsenal game:
I sat behind Bin Laden in the Clock End at Highbury at the match vs Liverpool on March 26th 1994, the week before the Torino game you mention.
It was only after he emerged as leader of Al-Qaeda and it was revealed that he had been in London in 1994 that I realised who he was, but he was pretty damn unmistakable. Very tall, beard, limped, and like a true Arsenal fan, he left early.
Years later, when the news got out that the man behind 9/11 was a Gooner, Arsenal banned him from the ground. In your face, international terrorism!
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