Posted by The Foo in And everything else...

My little nephew who lives in Wales, United Kingdom is a big Arsenal football (soccer) club fan. He was lucky enough earlier this year to be randomly picked to visit the old stadium (before they moved into their new bigger one), mingle with the soccer players and see them train. What a great treat it was for him! However, I heard today that he was picked to go to their new Emirates Stadium to see them AGAIN! How lucky can one boy be ?? i.e. getting picked once is great but twice in one year - what would be the odds of that? I am very happy for you. Enjoy rubbing shoulders with the likes of Thierry Henry, Fredrik Ljungberg, Arsene Wenger and co. … wish I was there with you!

One Response to “The luckiest boy in the world!”

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   His mum says said: @ 2:34 am
   August 9th, 2006 

   
   

   This lil Arsenal Gunner, might I add, is only 7 yrs old but he has visited the Highbury Stadium for photocalls(random selection), the Arsenal Kids Christmas party (random selection)and for matches on 7 occasions! Apparently, we were told by the Arsenal Mgt. that their computer randomly picks 5 children out of a pool of 22,000 for the pre-season photoshoot annually and as he has been picked at random in 2 consecutive years, they worked out the probability of him being picked again in the 2nd year…. 1 in 4.84 million chance!!! TRULY UNBELIEVABLE! He is really a lucky boy and he now has his fingers crossed that he will next be picked as the MASCOT for one of their matches in the Emirates Stadium (random selection as well)Wish him more luck!

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