Yo Ho Bleeding Ho!

It looks like it will be a pretty frugal Christmas for relatives of Gooners. Have you had a look at the fixture list?

The next month will certainly shape the rest of the season, and we face a staggering five away games in our next six matches. The only home game is a grade A fixture against our neighbours from the other end of the Seven Sisters Road, so a minimum £46 plus travel and beer for that one.

Around that game are trips to Bolton, Fulham, Porto, Chelsea, and Wigan. It doesn’t get much better after that with trips to Liverpool, Watford and Sheffield United punctured only by a couple of home games against Portsmouth and Blackburn.

Interestingly, there has yet to be a general sale for a game at the Grove, and astonishingly the Portsmouth game has already sold out. If the same happens with Blackburn you can see the board licking their lips at the prospect of hiking prices for next season. That’s a debate for another day.

So if you’re a Gooner you’ll be sounding out the relatives about now. ‘Can we come to you for Christmas, but no presents this year please’. Otherwise you could be listening to the Queens speech with beans on toast and a half of mince pie each.

Bah humbug!