The Premier League has started. There were some surprising results, as well as some expected results. Interestingly enough, there was one match that contained both of those things.
Arsenal won 6-1 as guests to Everton. Now, the result might have been unexpected by some, due to summer problems that Arsenal supposedly had.
The pundits talked and wrote millions of words; they gave thousands of opinions, explained, discussed, and argued how Arsenal is about to fall apart, or how they are still found wanting. The club was labelled as the fourth-place-to-give-away team this season.
They have been considered as title rivals by very few.
Another team from the Premier League, Manchester City (which was also hugely debated throughout the summer), spent mind-blowing sums of money to buy players. In contrast, Arsenal sold two of theirs and brought only one.
For some, that signalled the capitulation of the London club; it signalled the transformation of the club from a top European football club to a mediocre one, annually fighting for a place for the European tournaments. It signalled its inability to contest with the big teams.
They were dismissed as title contenders even before the season started. But let me ask: Why?
If the answer of this question is because they will get a lot of injured players sometime along this season, then I will ask you how you know that.
A lot of people have learnt that history does not lie. Arsenal has not won anything for four years now. Wouldn’t stating that they will fail for another year be considered a safe bet?
The truth is that it is a safe bet. It is safe because it has already happened in the not-so-distant past. It is still fresh in our minds; nothing has been changed, and failure for Arsenal is expected to happen again.
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