LONDON – Chris Christie’s Dallas Cowboys didn’t make it to the Super Bowl this year – but he did spend Sunday watching a different kind of football.

As the Patriots and Seahawks prepared to face off in sunny Phoenix, Ariz., the New Jersey governor was across the Atlantic in chilly London watching Arsenal, London’s Premiere League football club. Christie is overseas on a three-day trade mission to the United Kingdom, building foreign policy credentials for a possible presidential bid along the way.

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“I’ve processed some soccer, and that was about it – or football, as we should call it,” Christie told reporters after he left the stadium and was pressed about his 2016 plans. “I’m not running for anything in the United Kingdom,” he said.

For the match, Christie had some of the best seats in the house. He was in the Director’s Box, right at midfield, accompanied by his wife Mary Pat and a handful of other members of the New Jersey delegation to the U.K. Also seated in the box Sunday was Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and head of the Liberal Democrats in Parliament.



Christie wore a traditional red-and-white Arsenal scarf and cheered for the hometown club.