Arsenal are the next visitors to Villa Park. Good old Arsenal.
When you’ve written about a club a few times it can become difficult to find something new to say. When the club are Arsenal that’s no problem because they keep coming up with new things to say, and in any case the old things are still good enough.
There’s the Arsenal who have the most entitled set of supporters in the country, the sort who protest when they lose a couple of matches and look down on everyone else. There’s the Arsenal who have the luvviest supporters in the country, the sort who really do believe that clapping along to the club song and dressing from head to toe in club merchandise is a good thing.
Then there’s the Arsenal whose supporters are happy to pay a fortune for season tickets then not go to half the matches because they’re only playing Wolves or Burnley. As was memorably said in H&V folklore, Arsenal supporters en masse kook like they’ve read a book on how to be an English soccer fan, written by an American. And they’re proud of it.
Then there’s AFTVV, the most dramatically regal of drama queens. Anyone with any dignity would run them out of the ground. Arsenal supporters love them. And Piers Morgan. Osama bin Laden was reckoned to be an Arsenal supporter. If he was, and if he was still alive, he still wouldn’t be the most reviled Arsenal supporter on earth, unless Piers Morgan was in a spaceship. Is that enough scorn and loathing to be going on with?
At the moment they’re top of the league and keeping our place warm until we fancy taking over. They’ve got American owners and a Spanish manager, which is where the comparisons end. They’ve also got a few players we wouldn’t mind having for when a few more of ours get injured. And they’ve got Piers Morgan. Another win and we might start getting noticed.
