TiVo means watching the early season Arsenal-Chelsea fixture over two nights nearly ten days after the match is played. Yes, Arsenal lost, as they did in the Community Shield. Yes, Thierry Henry needs to be patient as the team adjusts to new midfielders who don’t serve him as well as Patrick Viera did. But worthy game all the same, and I’m glad that I can stay willingly ignorant of the score all this time. Yes, the Chronicle prints brief scores in the paper, but I avert my eyes, and I rarely visit sports websites. To me, the game was new, and that’s all that matters.
Now I have to hope I can duck the Chelsea-Tottenham score until I find time to watch that match, too.