Over the past few weeks my colleague Patrick Duke has written a couple of great articles about the both the ongoing anti-Arsenal media bias and the different standards that our club is being held to. Since these articles were published, these attacks have continued and reached a new zenith this weekend.
If you’d gone online on Saturday evening or picked up the Sunday papers yesterday morning, you would have seen two prominent themes across all media.
1. Wonderful Liverpool are the new kings of set pieces.
2. Magnificent City show true Champion’s style by winning ugly.
All written with a positivity that you would expect to see on the lower quality fan media sites.
Now leap forward to last night and this morning and what you see is an entirely different story. We scored from two set pieces and grafted for a very hard won three points. So how is this presented online, on television and in print? You can look the actual articles up for yourselves, but the three main tenets are:
- Set Piece F.C at it again
- Ugly Arsenal killing the beautiful game
- Arsenal winning the League would make it the worst EPL season ever
I’m sure that many fans of other teams will try and make this out to be nothing but Arsenal whinging, but its very hard to look at the headlines above without wondering what is going on with the media. It’s clear that they don’t like us, but I genuinely don’t know why? The crowd is too quiet or the fans over-celebrate, the players are trying to walk the ball into the net or boring set piece goals, we cannot win. May be I shouldn’t care, but I do!
I was going to add an additional section to this article, but I couldn’t guarantee that I wouldn’t find myself in some kind of legal trouble, so I will simply finish off with five words and you can draw your own conclusions.
Gary Neville on Sky Sports.
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