Arsenal: 4 reasons behind incredible support this season

3. The Joy of Attending Football After the Pandemic

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Even if Arsenal suffered, and in turn made all us suffer in a sporting sense, throughout the pandemic, it didn’t stop the match going fan from missing the buzz of live football.

In some of the darkest and toughest times most people will ever have known as we stayed confined to our homes, missed, and tragically lost, love ones, things like going to watch your football team on a weekend offer an escape from reality.

Meeting up with friends at the pub, heading into the ground and then popping back to the pub afterwards to dissect every measure of the performance has been sorely missed.

Away days are special days and waking up at some ungodly hour of the morning to hop on a train in the general direction of north to see the team in action is all part of the beauty of the sport.

No football in the flesh for nearly 18 months and the sadness of seeing empty grounds all across the world meant the return couldn’t come sooner. Everyone will remember the first zero capacity crowd when Borussia Dortmund played. It was awful.

In the end everyone got used to it, but never truly used to it.

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