Terrace Talk: Elements can’t rain on this Gooner parade

The only good thing about my increasingly decrepit memory is that I was thoroughly oblivious to the fact that, until Saturday, the Gunners had lost our last four finals playing in yellow. 

Otherwise this would’ve only added to the litany of other superstitious drivel (like us being lumbered with Wembley’s unlucky end) that was fuelling my anxiety in advance of this grand finale.

It would’ve been a big deal if the Arsenal had lost to Villa. Capping off our third place Premier League finish with such an imperious FA Cup performance and yesterday’s curtain-call of a Town Hall trophy parade was the perfect, positive climax to this season’s campaign, leaving us going into the summer recess in a buoyant mood.