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ROMESH RANGANATHAN

Why are you an Arsenal fan?

I’m Crawley born and bred, and people are forever having a go at me for not being a Crawley Town fan. It’s my dad’s fault. When he first came over from Sri Lanka, he stayed in north London and soon became a really militant Gooner. He ended up opening what was just an Arsenal-themed pub in East Grinstead. Punters would come to watch my dad lose his

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