I have to get this off my chest... Re: the latest post on Paris tickets, I can confirm the ticketing procedure stated after chatting with the club and Ticketmaster on Tuesday (and having a couple of colleague recently in receipt of season tickets, who have not been to any away games receiving tickets ahead of me - good luck to them, but my God am I jealous!).

The club perhaps should have been a little clearer re. the ballot, but I don't blame The Arsenal at all for the devastating blow that came with the rejection email. They have to have some way of allocating tickets and who is to say who deserves these most?

However, I do know one group of people who I don't deserve their seats. After coming through the daze and initial shock, the first thing I thought of was the 50% of the stadium filled with Uefa clinger-onners and its corporate buddies. I felt physically sick. Really.

I've had a season ticket for what is coming up to the 14th year and some cretinous rugby fan (or more likely ice hockey fan) from McDonalds (in Ohio) is going to be in my seat for a jolly with some clients!

I became angry at Uefa and with all that football had become: a bloated, greedy version of its former self - All the money from TV and advertising, the increasingly out-pricing of fans loyal and stupid enough to pay (all of us). I even thought of the move from beloved Highbury to the corporately named Emirates stadium. This made me sick also. I wanted nothing more to do with football, ever.

It took a chat on the phone with my dear old mother to bring me out of this nihilistic moment. Having missed out on a couple of important cup finals in the 70's through being two match vouchers short both times, whilst a load of her friends went, mum knew a bit about disappointment. I wasn't the only one who would be disappointed, I'm still dead lucky for supporting The Arsenal and it will continue to frustrate and delight me (more often than not) for years to come.

She's right. But I still can't get rid of this disgust at Uefa. Football is for the fans. The sponsors pay money because they want exposure from the popularity of football - they don't need the seats as well. If having seats is demanded by the sponsors, surely the rulers of football are in a powerful enough position to say, quite frankly, F off.

I hope someone with more energy than I can try and prevent this in future years. It would be ideal to have the stadium split 50/50 between opposing fans, but this won't happen. But any number of extra tickets for fans would be welcomed. I don't want anyone to feel like I did again.

If I had a forked out for one more away ticket this/last season I wouldn't have to have gone through all this.

I'm sure that with the right result on 17 May, my temporary wavering of commitment to football in general will be forgotten for good. So come on you Gunners...