My love of Arsenal and how it's helped me

I know I've sort of covered this in a previous post nearly a year ago but I want to talk about more about my love for Arsenal and how football helps deal with my depression.

My depression both times has started or begun during the football season so I've got something to distract me and to focus on and when the football season is over and done for the summer I feel lost without Arsenal.I know it sounds silly but I just feel lost without Arsenal to get passionate about to and to focus my energy on and have something to distract me. Going to Matches at the Emirates was my release and is my happy place and one of the happiest days during my depression was when Arsenal Won the FA Cup by beating Chelsea 2-1 my neighbours said a few weeks later they could hear me shouting at the TV seeing Arsenal lift the cup made me feel so happy. I know people will say football doesn't relax you maybe they are right supporting arsenal is a mixture of emotions and me I'm proud that Arsenal brings theses emotions out of me. Also another time Arsenal made me happy was when I went to buy this season Arsenal shirt feeling the proud of buying the shirt on the same day Arsenal Signed Alexandre Lacazette and was so happy since he was a player I had wanted Arsenal to sign for years and then I went on a stadium tour so it was an Arsenal full day for me and I enjoy going to the armoury to buy my shirt and feeling the pride of wearing the Arsenal colours and badge and trying the shirt on for the first time in the fitting room feels me with pride .

Now I'm going to talk a bit about my love for Arsenal again I enjoy going to the Emirates either by myself or with my mum I enjoy doing my usual walk from Highbury & Islington station to the Emirates. stopping to have something to eat and my eyes light up when I see the Emirates for the  time when I see it from Hornsey road and walking into the shop to look at what I can spend my money one and after that to look at Thierry Henry statue as my all time favorite Arsenal player and then I go into the ground and enjoy watching the teams warm up and then the match. if I'm using Finsbury park station I like to go have a look at Arsenal old ground Highbury and see still looks beautiful from the time I first saw her when I went to my first match there at the last season of Highbury e against Manchester City.

My three current favourite Arsenal players are Alexis Sanchez, Alexandre Lacazette and Theo Walcott and my all time Favorite Arsenal player is Thierry Henry who I've written a blog post about and Jens Lehmann and Dennis Bergkamp and  Freddie Ljungberg who I meet when Arsenal invited me and my mum and brother to watch the teams arrive and he was there  and  my favourites arsenal kits are this seasons and the last season at Highbury kit. I also got to meet arsenal Legend Ian Wright when he was working for BT, I also enjoyed going to Wembley twice this year to watch Arsenal once last season for the semi final of the FA Cup against man city and again this season for community shield both times Arsenal won so I was happy.

I have been an Arsenal member since 2004 when I become a junior gunner and then a silver membership and Arsenal were so kind to me when I missed the deadline when I was in hospital with mental health they let me renew late after I wrote to the club and I will always be great to Arsenal. I know if you follow me on social you know I moan and laugh about Arsenal but I will never stop loving arsenal till the day I die.

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My love for Thierry Henry

As Today (3rd of August) is the anniversary of Thierry Henry joining Arsenal and as he is my all time favourite Arsenal player and a personal hero of mine I thought I would write a little blog post about Thierry.

Thierry Henry joined Arsenal in August the 3rd 1999 from Juventus for an estimated £11 million and he scored his first goal against Southampton and would go onto win 2 league titles and 3 Fa cups with Arsenal and scored in my opinion so many beautiful goals for Arsenal including being the last player to score at Arsenal old ground Highbury and in his time with Arsenal he scored 228 over two stints as and becoming Arsenal captain and all time record goal scorer. Henry would leave Arsenal in June 2007 which broke my heart since I loved Thierry Henry and he would go on to join Barcelona where he would win the champions league and La Liga twice and he would later go on to join New York Red Bulls where during this time he would rejoin Arsenal on loan where he would score on his first game back against Leeds  and he would score in his last match in England against Sunderland.

In my personal opinion, Thierry Henry is and will always be the best player to play for Arsenal Football club my personal favourite goal of Thierry Henry was his goal against Real Madrid in the champions league in 2006 and my saddest moment was when Thierry left Arsenal because as a child I adored Thierry like there was no tomorrow, I had a Thierry Henry poster and I would get his name on the back of all my Arsenal shirts and would any TV show that had Thierry on it and watch every Arsenal and when he left I would watch a few Barcelona matches if Thierry was playing and I would watch France matches if Thierry Henry was playing and it was shown on UK TV. and I enjoy watching Thierry when he is a Panduit on TV and when during the Euro championships and I was in the hospital with mental health I would enjoy watching and listening to Thierry. And my favourite all time memory for me was as a 10-year-old getting to meet Thierry Henry at a Juniors gunners Christmas party this will always be my favourite memory of Henry.

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