Jonathan Liew
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674 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Jonathan Liew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's the way it's always been.
Well, yeah, it's probably the most moving thing, the most stirring thing Piers Morgan said since he quit Good Morning Britain.
But all joking aside, I live very close to the Emirates Stadium.
There were people streaming past my front door late on Tuesday night.
And I'm not an Arsenal fan, but I know lots of people who are.
And like any football club, it gives you a sense of...
identity and belonging.
And I think this is particularly true in terms of Arsenal, given the fact that it's a London club in such a diverse and multi-ethnic area, an area that's seen so much flux and change over the last 20 years.
An area that, let's face it, is often derided by other parts of the country.
Islington is kind of used as a slur or an insult amongst large parts of the right-wing media.
So I think to be an Arsenal fan is to kind of exist at the locus of all these different kind of identities, personalities.
You feel besieged, but you also feel this sense of pride and also a huge amount of relief, obviously, at doing it after 22 years.
So I think that's why you see these huge outpourings of mass celebration, the need to go and seek out other people.
And yeah, I mean, it's one of those...
scenes where it doesn't matter whether you're a season ticket holder or a platinum member or a red member or you're just watching it in the pub or the telly at home or you're an online fan.
All of these kind of tribal divisions, internal divisions, don't seem to make any difference.
That's the beauty of football, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, there's a fantastic book that came out a couple of years ago called Black Arsenal, sort of an anthology of essays and reminiscences that places Arsenal not just at the heart of black footballing culture, but as a touchstone of black Britain, certainly in an era in the 80s and 90s where black players and certainly black fans were not always welcome at all clubs in England.
It really does.
You know, the big clubs are, you know, they're as followed, they're following every continent on the globe, you know, and they are kind of multinational brands.
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