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gooner2005 said:
Yesterday would rank as one of my best days as a gooner, there's been nothing quite like it. I've just been on a high ever since and can't believe what I've just been through. Me and my bro waited in the famous marble halls for an Arsenal rep to guide us through the events. For the whole while we was there, Arsenal stars just poured in left, right and centre. Ljungberg, Vieira, Keown, Wenger, David Dein all went by to sign a few shirts, posing for photos. If this was just a starter of things to come, bring on the main course! The Arsenal rep arrived and guided us through and in seconds we were in the player’s tunnel, :shock: I couldn't believe it, I felt like an Arsenal player walking through. It's actually quite narrow when you’re in there but it does go on quite a distance towards the pitch. The rep stopped and showed us the Arsenal changing rooms just to the right of the tunnel, this was one of the highlights of the day knowing the Arsenal galcitcos were just behind the door having a team talk and preparing for the game. I just wanted to burst in there and announce I was in the building but I don't think Wenger would have been to impressed. We then came out from the player’s tunnel to meet the Highbury crowd and stadium, I was in awe, :shock: what a beautiful view of the stadium and crowd. We all chilled and waited in Bolton’s dugout with the Barclays award sponsors. They were gonna present their awards first before mine and the lady handed me the arsenal.com trophy, we joked about how tiny it was compared to the huge Barclays awards. Picture your average primary school tornament trophy. I kept on admiring the view from where I was standing and started to get giddy with excitement. We then heard there was a delay to the game by 15 minutes because of a security alert. I didn't mind at all because I wanted to stay in there forever. The three award winners, Henry, Bergy, and Edu walked out from the tunnel just centimetres away to be presented for their Barclays POTM and 20 goals awards respectively. Henry's expression was funny, he looked like he had been there, done that and got the t-shirt.
They did their presentation thing, posed for photos and next came my turn to present an award to Edu, my big moment! :mrgreen: At around 3pm me and my bro (he wanted a piece of the action) duly stepped up onto the famous Highbury turf, trophy in hand, calm and collected, like pros. I made my way straight to Edu and shook his hand and said "well played Edu, congratulations on winning, you deserve it" Edu said thanks and smiled, he genuinely looked like he was loving it more than I was! We posed for a few photos for the camera guy, while all this was going on Paul Burrell the MC announced I was the competition winner, etc, then the real big moment, he announced my name and Edu's to the Highbury crowd! The crowd erupted! GET IN THERE BIG TIME! So there was my bro left to Edu and me on his right on the Highbury pitch as near 38,000 people applauded us. Can’t describe how great this felt, it was right up there with the Anfield 89 buzz. I didn’t wanna leave but I had to afterall there was a match to be played! I left by saying good luck and have a good game. We then went off to our seats in the north bank to watch the match, to go over what just happened, we were hysterical and all I've gotta say is get on that arsenal.com website and vote your arse off for player of the month and become a winner because this day will stick with me for the rest of my lifetime as a proud gooner. Oh yes and I nearly forgot, we won the game 2-1 unbeaten and all that 
