Arsenal Celebrity Supporter Series: Douglas Adams

Consider, if you will, that Douglas Adams, English author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy among other works, died on May 11, 2001. What else happened in Britain that day? Arsenal lost the FA Cup final to Liverpool, 2-1 in Cardiff.

I bring that up not to show causation between the come-from-ahead loss to the Scousers, in that all true fans actually died that day. (Although Adams was in fact a Gooner.) Rather, it reminds me of this exchange, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

“Going to watch the match this afternoon then?”
“No, no point”
“What’s that? Foregone conclusion then you reckon, sir? Arsenal without a chance?”
“No no! It’s just that the world’s about to end.”
“Oh yes sir, you said. Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did.”

Heh.

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