Sunday was fun, Sunday was funny! It was great to watch us humiliate their team at the Toilet Bowl and even better to see the utterly crushed looks on the faces of their long suffering, deluded fans. But and it is a massive but, we mustn’t get carried away, Historically they are considered to be our local rivals, however the reality is that we are in a different league then them (quite possibly literally very soon) and have been for many, many years. Our rivals are City, Chelsea, Liverpool and still United. Theirs are West Ham and Palace.
That is what we must take on board from Sunday’s funday at Three Point Lane. We know that had they somehow contrived to get even a point from the match, they would have celebrated like they had won another second rate, tin pot bit of silverware and they’d still be dancing in the Walthamstow swamp lands as you are reading this. It was their Cup Final; whilst every game in the Prem is now a cup final for us, if we draw or lose at home to West London’s nouveau riche next weekend then the nerves will return to players and fans alike and the media in all its duplicitous forms will restart their massive anti-Arsenal agenda https://arsenal-mania.com/arsenal-media-narrative-vs-reality/
I am 100% certain that Mikel would have told them that during the short trip back down the Seven Sisters Road and hopefully the majority of fans inside the Emirates this coming Sunday will know that too. Chelsea blow hot and cold and if we start well it could be a relatively easy afternoon, but if the boys take to the pitch with a sense of guaranteed entitlement and the fans occupy themselves with thoughts of the earliest ever St Totteringham’s Day we could be in for a very short, sharp shock.
So it’s time to put all thoughts of an 8-2 aggregate score out of our minds and look forward to going again. I cannot imagine for one minute that any Arsenal fan will console themselves with beating some no-mark relegation fodder if come May we are picking up our fourth consecutive runners-up trophy.
Simon Boynton