Annoyingly, I’m missing the first two Arsenal home games of the season, as a mate has scheduled his stag do this weekend, and his wedding on the weekend of the next one. I mean, really, who has a wedding during the football season?!

I’ve sold my tickets for those games to the guy who sits behind me, which is handy as it funds (some of) the drinking on the stag do, but if we don’t get a home game in either the 3rd round of the League Cup or in the first Champions League group game, then I won’t see a match at the Emirates until 25th September.

And even that’s touch and go: I land back from a holiday just before 2pm at Gatwick, and will then have to get up to north London for a 3pm kick-off. If that flight’s delayed, I’m screwed, and it’ll be mid-October before my first game.

Barely worth having the season ticket!