‘BANNER DAY’
“We want to do something special,” said Mikel Arteta in the buildup to Arsenal’s Bigger Cup semi-final first leg against PSG, urging fans heading to the Emirates to bring their boots, their shorts, their T-shirts and everything but their dinner. “That place has to be something special, something that we haven’t seen.” While it is not known how many spectators heeded the call to go the full John Terry, they were certainly treated to the unprecedented sight of the world’s most underwhelming tifo hanging apologetically from the roof of the North Stand like a club-branded beach towel pegged to a back yard clothesline. Before one of the biggest home games in their team’s history, this quite dismal effort by the Arsenal hierarchy to generate some in-stadium vibes has been widely ridiculed and may have contributed to a curiously quiet atmosphere that was only exacerbated by Ousmane Dembélé’s early gut punch.
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