I will apologise first for potentially repeating what may have come and gone on this website before, but this is my opinion on feeding and entertaining the masses. My problem lies with what I have seen at Arsenal home games since our transition from our darling Highbury to our juggernaut progress machine - Ashburton Grove. I will try to refrain from ‘going on’ and thus providing fodder for ‘another ranter’ article and instead ask the question - should I now accept that fans are customers, customers ‘are always right’ and by that logic therefore I need to stop worrying about people getting to their seats late or leaving before half time to obtain a meal/drink/snack?

Ultimately it is inevitable that this is just a symptom of what today’s fan has become and what Arsenal needs - paying punters and not doting idolising fans who don’t move from their seat and stay to the bitter end? Don’t get me wrong - if you’re hungry, you’re hungry, but why then come to the game if you then judge that you should miss part of it and interrupt someone else’s view because you need feeding? When did the price of your ticket also mean you prioritise food over watching the game and usually because you may not like to accept that queues can and do happen at time to time.

That’s where I feel aggrieved, you choose to leave your seat for food/nourishment. If The Arsenal were so important to you (as they are for me and why I came, to SUPPORT - not be entertained) then bring a lunchbox. Where’s the harm in that? OR, is this just my biased attitude to other humans who simply come to be entertained? I don’t think ‘old school’ is the right word but I am beginning to think that there’s fewer (although I think we’re in the majority still) that come to support rather than come to be entertained / get lunch / leave early as you can’t consider the possibility of a queue in relation to 60,000 around you who also have the intention of also going home at the same time. But alas, leaving early is another subject for another time.

In all seriousness, where’s the harm in bringing your own lunch? It’s cheaper for a start and you won’t prioritise getting a hotdog down your throat over my wish to see our team play.