Football is tough. It’s fleeting joy. It is so ephemeral. One moment you’re there, tearing apart every opponent, dominating the field with your absolute might, and the next you’re struggling to recapture those magical moments you once experienced every year! They say enjoy the journey while it lasts. Arsenal fans should enjoy what they live. Today, they will have a chance to get closer to the title. The one they’ve been waiting for years…
When Arsenal won their third Premier League title in 2003-04, with Arsene Wenger’s ‘unbeaten’ side, few would have thought it would take another 22 years to come so close to another title.
Liverpool took 10 in 15 seasons and then waited almost 30 years to celebrate again. The absolute dominant in the Premier League, Manchester United, has already counted 13 years since its last triumph. And next year Chelsea will complete a decade without a crown at the top of England.
All of these groups experienced periods of absolute dominance. They destroyed opponents, took titles, some even consecutive ones… And then… silence.
The next league that Arsenal will win, which will probably be this year’s with a win today against West Ham, since then the last two matches will be procedural, will be celebrated a lot!
Manchester City was patient for 44 whole years to celebrate a championship again, and between us if the Arabs had not come there was no way it would have experienced it. In Pep’s era he has won a bunch of titles but anyone who thinks that they are guaranteed the future and more championships, let’s take a look at what is happening right and left., Liverpool won last year’s championship, spent almost half a billion in transfers, to have a much worse team this year than the one in the Brendan Rodgers era!
It won’t just be a title for Arteta and Arsenal. It will be the confirmation that history can turn again, that the glory is not lost forever.
Because nothing is certain in the Premier League. The next championship is never certain. The “guarantee” of “tomorrow” is a myth. And for me the biggest problem is to start thinking about the next season while you are still living what is happening in front of you!
Players, coaches, fans – everyone together – must learn to live every moment as if it were the last. When your time comes, paint the world with your colors. Create memories that will last for decades. Clean up the scrapbooks, the videos, the stories you will tell your grandchildren. Because, as we have been taught for the last 30 years, between two triumphs a whole football life can intervene.
The sport itself does not condone inactivity. He waits for no one. And that’s exactly why when you lift the trophy, you don’t just hold it up. You enjoy it. You celebrate it. You live it with every cell in your body.
Because no one knows when – and if – your turn will come again.
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