After years (grey hairs to prove it) of waiting for a season ticket for the Arsenal, I felt, and still feel, truly privileged at being granted unlimited access to our new home. The first taste of my new found freedom was a seat to the Dennis Bergkamp testimonial. Our seats are in the East Stand lower tier, spitting distance from the away fans (more of that later).

As those of you reading this who were lucky enough to be there will recall, the atmosphere was carnival like, with a real buzz at being allowed through the gates for the first time and the taste of anticipation as you walked through the concourse and caught your first glimpse of our fabulous new ground.

Even the small minority of Ajax fans who somehow got "out of order" by generously signalling the adjacent Arsenal fans sat next them in the lower tier to "come and have a go" could not spoil what was not just DB's day but OUR day too. And here comes my point. What's happened to that buzz since? Was I totally taken in by the Dutchness of that day and dreamt those two Mexican waves that went round the entire ground twice from lower to upper tiers?

I don't want to get all "jumpers for goalposts" and I'm sure for the cynics amongst us the idea of a Mexican wave may sound as alien to the Arsenal as the idea of introducing "sin bins" or cheerleaders appearing at the first sign of a throw-in, but at least in those five or ten minutes or so the Arsenal faithful showed a unity rarely seen this season. How embarrassing to hear the Watford fans on recently chanting "Three-nil, and you sill don't sing!"

From where I sit, stand, shout and sing with my new found neighbours in the lower tier, we see every single mocking expression from away fans at the apathy that is Emirates, Ashburton, call it what you want. Let's get behind the boys and each other! I read in the Watford programme that the club were thinking of having a drum in the RedSection corner. Great idea, shame the Watford crew beat us to it (pun not intended, honest).

Not everyone is as vocal as their neighbour - that I understand - and thankfully there are more fans than not who don't allow the red mist to settle over all sense of proportion and decent behaviour. But would you pay to go to a rock/pop concert and refuse to stand, tap your feet or even clap? Would you sit and fold your arms and acknowledge the emotion inside you? Probably not. So next time a support like Watford start mocking us, stand up and be counted! You never know, you might even start a Mexican wave...