For a decade under Arsene Wenger, we were Southern sofites. We were naive. Unable to grind out results. And now we are doing just that, in 3 tough away games, Arteta is being compared to Tony Pullis and Sean Dyche.
This is a team, remember, that scored a club record league goals last season, breaking the record set the year before.
These opening 3 games were never about style, they were all about results. We could not have won the title in the opening 5 of the season but we could have lost it.
Instead of being 9 points behind City after 5 games, like many predicted, we are just 2. And I guess the Manchester and Liverpool pundits do not like that!
We stay together. We back the manager and what he has built, and we will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.
The Arsenal are now unbeaten to Manchester City in the last 4 games. They have failed to beat us twice in a row at the Etihad. Despite their players trying to criticise our achievement, they are clearly scared of us.
We have proved in the last 2 away games against them that we are now their equals. Head to head there is nothing between us. We now need to do it for 38 league games.
My final thought is finishing 2nd behind Manchester City is not a failure considering what they have spent (on both transfers and salaries) in the last decade. Yes, some fans will point to “net spend”, but we all know this is meaningless. City are currently spending “less” because they have a well establish team built over the last 10-years.
We are in the race.
Keenos
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