This piece was originally published here on The Arsenal Collective, but it's a fitting preview for what should prove a very exciting season ahead.
"History will not remember who played the best football
but who won the trophy."
I have to say, over the last several years as a Gooner, I’ve
heard or read reasoning to that effect countless times. It’s nigh on impossible
to go more than a week without being reminded by a hack journalist or by a
rival supporter of the time passed since the last time the Arsenal lifted a
trophy.
In the 2007-2008 Premier League season, from August to
February there was one team head and shoulders above the rest in England. We
lost our first game to Middlesbrough in December of that season, and would only
lose twice more, to Chelsea and United, in the run-in. Half the Premiership XI
wore red shirts with white sleeves that season. There were matches where our
midfield swarmed opponents in the same manner Barcelona regularly do today.
