Up the Arse-nal!

This weekend is another big game at the Emirates as Arsenal host The 115, aka Manchester City, in the Premier League.

Whereas we had a good start apart from losing to Liverfool, they had a poor start and have since recovered their usual charm and success rate. A 3-0 win over The Rags, aka Manchester United, last weekend will have given them some confidence.

It's another game that I had planned to ride up and park as usual at the school up the road, but with the weather forecast, for Sunday, to be peeing down for most of the day, I didn't want to ride 80 miles each way, get wet or sit in my full waterproofs all afternoon.

Or should I say early evening? Once again it's televised and so it's a 4.30pm kick-off!  One day we'll get to kick-off at the traditional English time of 3pm on a Saturday! Some bloody hope.

So it's back to the train. As usual there's a one an hour service from Folkestone West to St Pancras.  I have booked outward journey on the 2.01pm HS1 train and back at 7.04pm.  It's around 53 to 55 minutes each way. It doesn't seem long when you have a seat, but all too often the train northwards is packed to the gills with day trippers to London, even at that time, or going to Bluewater or Stratford Westfield shopping centres.

Fingers cross for a seat on the train and three more points on the board.

Game ended 1-1. Missed the train home by 1 minutes. Had to hang about for an hour for the next one.