It's my last day off today before returning to work and I spend the late afternoon with a few friends on my first visit to the Emirates Stadium in London, watching Arsenal v Aston Villa in the 4th Round of the FA Cup. On the walk with the crowds from Finsbury Park Rail Station to the ground, I'm half tempted to get an early dinner prior to kick off from one of the many stalls which appear to line the routes to the ground on match day for a few hours before disappearing for all but the swirl of fast food debris until the next home game.
I resist numerous burger vans, a curry stall, a hog joint and a temporary sweet shop to watch a game that showed the bad and good sides of the home side, after being 2-0 down at half-time, Arsenal eventually won 3-2.
With dinnertime falling at the final whistle I was tempted by some pub grub, or one of the stalls, now packing up, as we backtracked towards the rail station. Given the lack of decent curry options in Cambridge (despite the number of such establishments) I decided to drag everyone the short distance to the Angel, Islington to an area of some better pubs and Marsala Zone, a decent curry place where I had a Mutton Grand Thali with a Dhaaba Roghan Josh curry. The comparatively small amount of excellent mutton curry when combined with the numerous other items that came with the Grand Thali was surprisingly filling with a focus on tasty spicing rather than pure heat. I accompanied this with a bottle of Kingfisher, before the train home, sated.
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