Always good to have football back after what seemed like an eternity - with no World Cup or Euros this year, the summer break was always going to seem like forever.The first game of the season always brings people out full of excitement, and it was incredible to see how many redcurrant shirts were out and about at Highbury - it seems that just about everybody has taken the plunge and bought one.
The game itself was typical first day of the season stuff, anybody's game for a long time really, and not really a good indicator of the season to come. The game was decided by the referee in the first half, by his strange decision to send Jermaine Jenas off for an innocuous challenge. Newcastle had been well in the game until then, but the sending off put them on the back foot.
As the game progressed, it became harder and harder for Newcastle to keep up, and Arsenal evenutally picked them off with 2 goals in the last 10 minutes. A good win to open the season, but you can't help feeling that the referee's strange sending off decision won us the game.
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