In England, it feels as though almost nobody, other than Arsenal supporters or anyone-but-City fans, wants them to win the title. Arsenal, meanwhile, would be a rebuke to other upper Premier League sides, as Leicester were to smaller clubs. There is a subsection of online Arsenal fans that is extremely sensitive and obsessed by imagined plots against the club; there’s a reason that fan TV reached a mainstream audience at Arsenal rather than any other club. Arsenal fans seem to have spent much of the last week digging out statistics to prove their games are not actually unusually disjointed, but that’s certainly how it feels. Arsenal could argue, with some legitimacy, that they don’t have City’s resources and, besides, football is about winning; no marks are awarded for artistic impression.

Source: Irish Examiner March 09, 2026 18:07 UTC