Will Slattery
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Appearances Over Time
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And it does have all these great moments of the season mixed in with fans having really nice moments, you know, or the players doing some community work.
There was a lady who appeared to be blind and...
Oh, I'd forgotten about that.
We'll never see the legs again.
The greatest win of all time.
And you know, another thing as well.
I mean, look, we saw various perspectives.
We saw Keir Starmer.
22 long years for the Arsenal, but finally we're back where we belong, champions.
To which someone replied, as if there weren't enough reasons to hate Arsenal.
We saw Ian Wright doing some brand building.
But what was, you know, there are various perspectives, obviously, and the Premier League has become this kind of outsized thing and...
money and lost its soul and everything but uh really striking thing on social media was the number of people i guess it's a uh an encapsulation of what football can mean in at its very best and sport at its best of people sending messages to their deceased parents or grandparents with photos of them together in 2004 like what's happening to their old numbers or something
Yeah, there was some of that as well.
But even just like people posting like a photo of, I saw one guy with him and his grandmother and then he's there and, you know, because they obviously, it was a bond I'm sure back then and she's no longer here and, you know, thinking of you tonight.
But it was, it was really striking just how many of these posts there were.
Like these kind of moments, family members, they're all so intertwined.
You kind of stop and think for all of the cynicism rightfully so you'd have about the, you know, the, the,
gazillionaires running the clubs and the players who are, you know, mercenary at times in nature.
The actual reality for fans, like it's kind of, you know, it's the lifeblood for so many families in a lovely way.