Arsenal have quite simply lived rent-free in the heads of so many fans of our typical rivals. Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool fans have throughout the season questioned with puzzled expressions how Arsenal could have gone from eighth, to fifth and now to potentially first so quickly whilst overtaking their own projects and in some cases, “cough” Chelsea and Liverpool, watch as the mistakes made by them lead their clubs further and further down the table.
It's perhaps introductions like this to articles and similar smug tweets from other Gunners supporters that get on the nerves of our fellow rival fans and spark such disdain. I have a sudden sense of awareness for the Liverpool-supporting editor who will be reading this and inevitably rolling his eyes.
This Arsenal arrogance has been a long time coming and we’ve earned it after the years of stick and equally irritating arrogance of our rivals with very little outside of historic records and FA Cup glories to come back with alongside our assertion that this project will, to steal Mikel Arteta’s words, “bang!” But this is exactly what football is all about and after years of infighting at Arsenal due to the club’s purgatorial placement in the league between third and eighth without much hope to challenge the dominant force that is Manchester City, I am glad to say is all but over; or at least I desperately hope is.
