When Anthony Taylor blew his whistle to bring the FA Cup final to a conclusion last week, two young Arsenal supporters erupted in joy from the seats in front of their television thousands of kilometres away from London.
At their home in Kozhikode, a district in the South Indian state of Kerala, 12-year-old Ahmed Yaseen and 8-year-old Ahmed Yahya were beaming when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's brace helped Arsenal defeat their rivals Chelsea to lift their 14th FA Cup trophy. Having grown up with Gooners, there wasn't anything anyone could say that could wipe the smiles off their face for the rest of the week.