In Uganda, the local press continues to publish predictions that give the championship to Man U. Some of the material published in the Ugandan press is plagiarised from UK tabloids. Therefore, it seems even in the UK, pundits still refuse to accept that they got it completely wrong on Arsenal. I don’t know why.
I watched Arsenal pre-season during the Emirates Cup and the Amsterdam tournament. They beat during those tournaments big Italian and Dutch clubs. They did look young, but the kind of soccer they were playing was as fantastic as the media has come to accept of recent.
I thought at that time that this team was going to do well when the season begins. Ofcourse the pundits were also watching, I just don’t know why they didnt seem to want to give it to Arsenal despite very clear signs that the likes of RVP, Flamini, Walcot, Eduardo, Bendtner etc were really appearing very good.
Then the season began and so did the silky moves and they started to win. Then the pundits acknowledged the quality of the soccer, most also accepted that they got it wrong at the start of the season. Some ofcourse are yet to conceed how completely wrong they got it. They are still hoping like Ferguson and Grant, that the big collapse will finally come.
During the Chrismas period, when Man U won at Everton (By chance really and out of the sheer stupidity of an Everton defender) and we drew at Potsmouth, these people must have sighed with relief, believing that the big collapse had just come.
But surely drawing at Potsmouth cannot be a collapse when loosing at Westham isn’t or drawing at Lutton isn’t. This is exactly what Man U and Liverpool have done in the last few days. The pundits still say Man U will take the championship and Arsenal will collapse.
But where is the evidence? Look at the team now, they have played 21 games, lost at Boro, drawn at Blackburn, Man U, Liverpool, Newcastle, Potsmouth. Half the season is gone. They have done better than everyone else really and the table shows it. Now they have lost Toure but that is almost it. With RVP back, they could be as good as they started the season.
When will they collapse. The evidence is that they won’t. People like Sagna fortunately do not even understand the language of the pundits. Flamini and Gallas as well speak little English. Even Fabregas, Almunia do not understand much of Ferguson’s mind games. It doesn’t matter that Avram is also making a try at mind games. OK Walcot could be distracted but even if he did which is typical of English players, they could lose just the Carling cup.
To the pundits who keep claiming that Arsenal can’t last the distance and that Man U are the real champions: where is the evidence?
