I  know why I look for this teams results its because I saw them a couple of times a year, every year during the Easter holidays from school when my parents used to take us away for Easter to visit my mums side of the family which is enormous,  my mother comes from a family of 9 whom most of them were farmers and their children have had children etc and so my family have seemingly populated half of the west Country with the last count nearing 150 relations!!

Anyway for my sins I am a closet Exeter City fan, I have not been to watch them play since I was dragged along to those games all those years ago by my cousins and it has to be said that Exeter FC was the very first team I watched in a live game, and yes it was at least a few years before my father took me to see my first game in 1968 against Stoke City.

I have a lot of friends in and around Exeter and my elder brother moved to Devon when he was 16 and has lived there ever since also my mother and father did likewise after they had returned from Europe.

On the many times I have visited my family since those early days I have met many of my brother friends and shared a few scrumpy's etc and have enjoyed all of the banter of me being an Arsenal fan and them going to watch Exeter on their tractors, I have even mentioned the amount of times I have been to Wembley to see Arsenal play as well which I think is about mid 30's and reminding them that they will go to Wembley but only if they own a greyhound (one for the older Gooners) but it is all good humoured.

There has been many many things I have seen in football over my 40 plus years of watching Arsenal regularly and other than seeing Arsenal win the Champions League and watching Arsenal retain a title I think I have seen most things .............except one.

This is one of those really quirky football statistics but when you concider how old Arsenal FC are and how successful Arsenal have been in cup competitions etc and how long Exeter have been in existence, the two teams have never meet in competition.

It has been a fixture I have been looking forward to seeing for many many years and actually we were one place away from drawing them in one of the cups only a few years ago, but alas it was not to be.

Even though we have not met on the field of play Arsenal do  have a historical links with Exeter City, do you know what they are?

The old cowshed stand was knocked down a few years ago and a new one built and renamed The Bastin Stand should give you a clue, the most obvious tie is that Cliff Bastin one of Arsenal greatest players of all time was bought from Exeter City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Bastin and furthermore one of my friends Syd is actually Cliff 'Syd' Bastin's nephews and we are meeting up for a few beers this Sunday as Exeter City take on the might of Cambridge in this seasons Conference play off final at Wembley.

So this weekend I will be troopsing off to Wembley and I will no doubt be reminded that Exeter got to the new Wembley stadium before the mighty Arsenal did, and good luck to them as well. Here is to a great day out at Wembley on Sunday.