Passion is back

Not only in the team but amongst fans. I for one got fed up with the lies and delusion sold and the show that was put on in previous seasons. It was about 2 seasons ago when I started to watch football less and less to the point even watching 2016 European championships became a chore, and not even bothering much with WC this summer other than big games.

Europea league debut last season was the first time I purposely went out of my way to avoid watching Arsenal. Call me spoilt, but simply watching us struggle against European farmers was not what I had in mind.

Emery’s reign started off quite badly with two losses albeit against two very good teams. But still bad losses nonetheless in black and white view. It took a while, defence was still as garbage as past few seasons. But this team started grinding out wins regardless. 18 unbeaten since the 2nd of those defeats in quite remarkable. The best bit? Performances are only getting stronger.

I don’t tend to look at unbeaten records with too much notice in first part of season but when majority have been victories, it’s hard not to get excited. The game against Liverpool was the first time in donkey years where we actually property dominated a class team start to finish.. A draw was slight reminiscent of when we would play well but end up getting sucker punched in the past even end up losing. But you knew this was not a one a off.

Then yesterday, a game where in pasts in all fairness we pretty much have always shown up especially at home. But nothing like that. I saw players sticking up for each other the type where Arsenal used to be known for back in the day. Not sure what caused the confrontation when Dier scored but it’s great to see subs coming in and really causing mayhem. It really did make it a proper derby that this league in whole hasn’t seen for a while. I think the added aggression from both sides playing style only made it better. Gendouzi always is getting involved. The lad loves getting stuck in whether on pitch or from subs giving it large to the opposition.

Guys like Bellerin who have often been accused of being fairies have become men. When one player gets a kick you can expect another Arsenal player not to far behind to back his mate up.

As a suffering fan, things like this make you love football again.