football fi rsts

Mark Arber - The former Barnet and Peterborough defender talks us through his football memories

First game you watched live?
Arsenal v Southampton at Highbury, with my uncle. I remember I cried when Southampton started singing, ‘when the Saints go marching in’ because it was too loud!
I got brought up into an Arsenal-supporting family; my uncle was a season ticket holder and my dad was an apprentice there.
I would’ve been a young boy – maybe five or six – but I don’t have a clue what the score was! I was told Arsenal won.
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