It was Manchester United that used to mock Manchester City, calling them, "the noisy neighbours". Ofcourse they dare not say that again now, Manchester City have walked the talk. The noise seems to have moved to London.
It was a common saying by opposition fans that Arsenal were too noisy for much of last season. This season also Arsenal has been accused of thesame, as people question their "excessive celebration" after victories that have not amounted to trophies.
Someone said since those who complain about the noise are more, therefore as they say in democracy, majority wins the vote.
Well the majority could be wrong at times, you know. I'd say there's no mystery about Arsenal's celebration, it breaks no rules, it is supported by the freedom of speech law in many countries, it is financed by the Arsenal fold. So why all the complain against it?
They say "big man, big problem", in my country, meaning a wealthy man usually has bigger challenges to grapple with.
The "big man" being Arsenal.
The truth is that England generally was not expecting this giant of English football to bounce back to reckoning under the very young and inexperienced tutor called Arteta. The tutor embraced the challenge and he indeed staggered and faltered in his opening years, but surely he was growing daily.
Today the opposition is in shock, some of them are even ex-Arsenal fans, who have experienced multiple heart-breaks and they wish Arsenal doom daily.
So from the FA to rival clubs there's this shock and then jealousy as to what Arteta is doing, so they keep attacking it. Now it's even better, last two seasons the attack came with deliberate poor refereeing against Arsenal. It was as clear as daylight to the neutral.
So when we see these attacks on Arsenal's celebration it's all another phase of thesame shock. They are irritated by the turn around.
There is a massive turn around right now!
People want to kid themselves by saying, "how many trophies has Arteta won?". That's a cover-up question to mask the fact that there has been a turnaround, nay A MASSIVE TURNAROUND.
When I say, "This is Arsenal", it's a testament not just to more victories today, but an entire paradigm shift in the way the club is run, starting from the mentality of the players now to the quality and future of the ongoing project. The renumeration of the players are better, in short excellence smells all over the place.
It's a new Arsenal!
But many folks are simply shocked and together with jealousy, they just won't agree with this fact, so they look for cover-up questions or cook up irrelevant criticism of celebration.
Well, that's what being a big team is all about.
Furthermore, this again shows how much youth can be despised. If it was an Ancelloti or Bielsa that was manning this revival, this hate wouldn't have been like this, but as it's the "little kid", Arteta, who does he think he is? Plus he doesn't have the kind of popularity in the country, his contemporaries like Lampard, Gerrard and Terry have. People want to mock at him and many don't even know that they are been driven by jealousy. So sad.
Whether they like it or not, a new Arsenal has been born.
THIS IS ARSENALLLLLLL
Cheers
