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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Morgan Ofori. Photography: Ollie Tikare. Assistant: Fraser Hanley-Nicholls

The Arsenal fans who brought style and swagger to the team’s victory parade: ‘Everyone supports the same thing but expresses it in their own way’

An Arsenal fan wearing vintage football clothing holds aloft a cardboard trophy next to his daughter wearing a white T-shirt with Arsenal logo holding a stuffed dinosaur
‘My house is like a museum’ … Shane with his daughter, Erin. Photograph: Ollie Tikare/The Guardian

‘The only thing I haven’t got are the underpants. Everything else is Arsenal,” says Shane, a memorabilia and kit collector perched outside north London’s Clissold park with his daughter, Erin. Known online as Highbury Gunner JVC, the 47-year-old wore an Arsenal-buckled belt, a club tie in a player pattern and a club shirt with a red and white vintage-style duffel bag. The showstopper, though, was his bespoke jacket made from curtains by the designer Joe Brim, finished with an Arsenal medallion and watch, and yellow customised Dr Martens. A collector since the 1970s, he says: “I could complete a catalogue from the 90s; my house is like a museum.”

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