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This weekend we're very excited to begin the first of a series of activities focusing on the Arsenal - which last year celebrated 100 years in Islington. And, as always, we want you to join us...
It's been nearly two years since we first came up with the idea of bringing our young professional volunteers together with their older neighbours by chatting about Arsenal, so we're thrilled to begin the first of what we hope will become a really popular series throughout 2014 and beyond.
The idea is simple. Football is a unifier. It brings people together like few other activities. Many people, particularly older men, who can otherwise find it difficult to be sociable, or to communicate with peers, become animated thinking about the passions, frustrations, formations, tactics and personalities that make our game so endlessly fasincating. Equally importantly for us, football is a leveller. No matter your cirsumstances - financial, social, professional, age - if you love the game, you've got an opinion worth discussing.
How different is the experience of going to the Emirates today compared to going to Highbury in the 1930s?
Which was the most gripping Arsenal team?
Who makes the all time best XI?
What are your favourite memories of the '71 double winning team, or the 2004 Invincibles?
For an organsation like North London Cares, these topics offer endless opportunities to broker new friendships and new interactions. Over the coming weeks, we're going to do readings from Fever Pitch, AFC poetry sessions, videos and films, drawing sessions - focusing on Arsenal. Further down the line, we hope our younger and older neighbours will be able to watch games together, in local community centres and pubs - maybe even at the Emirates.
In the meantime, this Saturday we'll be picking the Dream Team - and we need your help to select a squad of 25 players from which our gang will pick a best ever first XI on Saturday. So please tweet us your favourite keepers, defenders, full backs, midfielders, wingers and forwards, not just from the nineties and noughties but back to the golden age of the seventies and thirties too.
We'll let you know next week who the top picks in each position were - or you could always join us on Saturday to meet the gang.
Just sign up and we'll be in touch with more details.