Ridsdale and I

  Arsenal were next up on Tuesday September 3rd, the reigning champions who definitely held the whip over us in recent times with two sins and four draws in our last six meetings, all of which took place during 1990/91! I remember walking down from the coach park where the Park N Ride is these days and spotting an Arsenal fans coach which was obviously lost. Sitting in the seat beat the driver at the front was a Gooner, who sported Ray Parlour type hair and wore a shirt that appeared to be their home and away tops cut in half but stitched together. He must have known a good seamstress but it looked ridiculous, no more so than Arsenal's new away kit which would become known as "the bruised banana". They wore that on this particular evening and it had the makings of a lucky omen as by 49 minutes they were 2-0 up and looking likely to shake off the post-title slumber that often afflicts teams having lost their previous two away matches but Leeds fought back and Gordon Strach