Arsenal: I hate it when we prove the “experts” right

The sports media is generally pretty stupid, not to mention biased against Arsenal, so I really hate it when we go out of our way to prove them right.

It was about a month ago that everyone laid out the remaining schedules of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham. And everyone sat around and talked about how there was just no way that the Gunners would make it, despite the fact that they had the easiest schedule.

They had no match-ups against top-six clubs and their toughest matches were away to Wolverhampton, away to Leicester City and away to Watford. Now don’t get me wrong, those are tough matches, but not as tough as what their direct rivals were up against.

If they could claw four points from those matches, and do what they had been doing at home, everything would be okay. We’d be in the top four, in control of our own fate, and the Europa League would be a nice added bonus to an already Champions-League-bound club.

I swore up and down that there was no way the Gunners wouldn’t get into the top four, not with how much was in their favor.

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But here I am, absolutely wrong, while all those “experts” sit their, still with their thumb up their arses, but, in this instance, right. And if there is one thing I hate, it’s when these “experts” think that they’re actually smart just because they got one prediction right.

When you think about what had to go wrong for the Gunners not to finish in the top four, it’s truly remarkable. It’s so incredibly unlikely that even the experts have to be surprised how bad it went. In the last four matches, they have taken one whole point.

All they would have had to do is take three points from those four matches and they’d still be in the running. God forbid you take four whole points from that, you’re tied with Spurs, five whole points and you’re swapping places with Spurs.

It has been an absolute, colossal screw up and, dare I use the word ‘Spursy’ to qualify it? I don’t know. We’ll have to see what happens in the Europa League before I start going to those depths.

In the mean time, we have to live with the understanding that, not only did we not make the top four, but we have to stomach how righteous we made all these haters feel. Lovely.