However if I was to take an educated guess, a vast majority of fans would say that the sheer unpredictability of football, that element of chance, the hope of seeing something special that will lodge in the memory bank forever would, by way of definition, be some of the things that most fans would identify with.
On the other hand, there are some that would say that it's the controversies that are constantly thrown up in football that make it so appealing. And what is invariably at the root of the controversy that surrounds football matches played all over the world every day of the week? In no small part, it is the human error displayed by referees and their assistants but more often than not it's the dark arts of skulduggery acted out by players, some of whom that have been put up to doing it by their managers, that conjure up more talking points than anything else. That was the case on Saturday.
As I said in my preview to Saturday's game, the onus may have been on us to make sure that the game was ultimately won but it always takes two to make a football match a spectacle and to that end, the onus was very much on Blackburn to play their part in that. But it was clear from the moment Flitcroft flew into Bergkamp seconds after the game kicked off that they were clearly not interested in that.
And now that I come to think of it, the post match comments of Mark Hughes smacked of a man that knew he would have to defend his teams actions whether they had won, drawn, or as things turned out, they lost the game.
Hughes admitted to sending his team out with a "game plan". Just by saying that it almost felt as though he was admitting that he sent out his team to stop us at any cost, by fair means or foul. He banked on his players trying every trick and every cheap shot in the book and getting away with it often enough in the hope that someone in the Arsenal ranks would react and then get himself sent off.
There are legions of people that will hide behind the fact that winding the opposition up is just part of the game but there is a difference between winding people up and constantly doing things that are outside of the rules and that are just downright cynical in order to wind people up. That, quite frankly, was all that Blackburn were really about on Saturday.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time in this life and it says something when the press and the media, who have often come out in the past and applauded when such tactics have been used against us in the past, roundly condemned Blackburn's antics almost to a man.
Whatever he goes on to do in his career at Arsenal, Robin van Persie will not forget Saturday's game in a hurry - though I don't think that he will remember an awful lot about what happened immediately after he had scored his second and Arsenal's third, of course.
The lad's two strikes deserved to win a far better semi-final than Saturday's but whatever doubts we Gooners have about his temperament it would be churlish for any of us to question his ability now.
And if justice was eventually done on the pitch last Saturday then when I heard that the FA were going to haul Andy Todd into the dock for his cheap shot on Van Persie.
I don't care what anyone says, Todd knew what he was doing. He knew that he and his team had been outwitted and outsmarted and, like any thug that anyone has ever known who has been has been outwitted by someone that is actually more articulate than themselves, Todd resorted to using the one thing that in his own mind could make him feel a whole lot better and that's his fists - or to be more accurate in this case, his elbow.
I wonder if Todd will call up Jimmy Hill for advice on how to defend himself at Soho Square. Because in the eyes of that old relic, the fact that Van Persie was knocked spark out by Todd didn't matter a jot. He was just a typical foreigner making an absolute meal out of nothing!
Mind you, this IS one of the guys who, in spite of knowing full well that missing a routine drug test is tantamount to actually taking a banned substance under the laws of the game in this country, he campaigned bitterly for Ferdinand to be acquitted anyway because there was no proof that he was actually taking something. All I can say that there really IS no fool like an old fool.
Of course, the upshot of all that went on over the weekend was that the Arsenal have another chance to get it on with ManUre once again in the final and over the last few days I have a few workmates, none of whom support either the Arsenal or ManUre telling me how much they are looking forward to it and what a good game it's going to be.
I told each and every one of them that I couldn't give damn if the final turns out to be the worst, most savage final there has ever been just as long as we win it and we get some way overdue revenge. And as anyone that knows me will tell you, I'm not the sort of bloke that says things that I do not mean.
Oh and by the way, for those of you that are out are out there reading this and thinking that my sentiments on this are as draconian as the actions of Blackburn on Saturday well, at least I'm not being a coward and pretending to hide behind a veil of innocence and half truths like a certain Blackburn manager did. Does it make what I am saying right? No, probably not. But it's ManUre I am referring to here and where they are concerned I do not make any concessions and I certainly do not make any apologies.
I also make no apology for the terminology that I use in referring to Arsenal's opponents on Wednesday night either. Arsenal fans have probably beaten the subject of our alien neighbours to death ever since Abramovich arrived in this country but without going into all kinds of things that have been chronicled over and over again, the question, for me, that everyone (and not just Arsenal fans) need to ask themselves is this - when was the last time you saw a club in this country announce recent pre tax losses (note the words PRE TAX) approaching £90 million yet find themselves comfortably in a position to win the Premiership title? Once? Twice? Try never.
A genuine football club run on the basis of a good old fashioned turnover and a club that is genuinely run on trading profit and losses (as virtually every other club outside of London SW6 still is) would struggle at the very least to even BE in the Premiership let alone bloody win it!!
Safe in the knowledge that the Russian sugar daddy will probably have to bankroll the franchise he has created in West London until he is well over 60 in order to come close to most of the things Arsenal have achieved in spite of and NOT because of having someone like him around, I am actually fairly chilled out about the fact that it is unlikely that we will retain our title.
I'm now prepared to play a longer game. Yes, as everyone loves to point out, we haven't won back to back titles and yes, we haven't won the Champions League. But for now, I will satisfy myself with the fact that WE are the club that have won more major trophies than anyone else over the last three seasons, WE have made no less than FIVE cup finals (if you include the UEFA Cup of 2000) in the last six seasons and WE will go into this year's FA Cup final with a chance of becoming the only club in this country to have won at least one major trophy in each of the last four years.
If, as learned souls such as Karren Brady for example, consider that to be the exploits of a club in decline then what the fuck does that say about the likes of her club (the mighty Birmingham City no less) and a whole host of others?
I would take this current trend of "decline" we are currently on any day of the week because NO other club in this country can match our achievements over the four seasons - NO one. And guess what? It didn't cost us a combined amount of £60 million to buy some guy called Rio Ferdinand or Wayne Rooney and anywhere near £300 million pounds of some foreign benefactors money for the privilege of saying that either.
And as for Wednesday night's game well, as far as I am concerned the only thing that the Arsenal have to focus on is playing their own game and I'll tell you why.
People outside of Highbury may be saying that there is no difference between finishing second or third in the league. You try telling Old Purple Nose and in particular Arsene Wenger that. After all, it is our man Wenger that has never failed to finish outside of the top two in a full campaign since he has been at Arsenal.
What's more, from a personal point of view, being usurped in the league by an alien entity is one thing but seeing us beaten by what I consider to be one of our more GENUINE rivals is another.
I want to see us finish as the best of the REAL football clubs in this country. To take a step closer to doing that we will need to go to the Bridge and get something. Despite the fact that certain key players will not be available to us, I don't have a problem with that and nor should any Gooner.
It's not a question of whether we have the ability to beat them that concerns me it's a question of whether the players want it enough. We Gooners will have an answer at around ten o'clock on Wednesday night.