Arsenal’s attention being taken by Spurs & Manchester United

Arsenal are onto something. While all the blind faith in the team over recent seasons has come back to bite fans in the backside, this time it feels different. The vision of future is crystal clear.

As a supporter you want more of this; you want more of Arsenal under Mikel Arteta. Beating Watford 3-2 with some devastating attacking play just builds the excitement. The football is fun, it is efficient, and it has the Gunners in the top four.

Who is being spoken about the most in all this? Is it Martin Odegaard? Bukayo Saka? Arteta? Thomas Partey?

None of them. It’s Tottenham and Manchester United.

Arsenal’s attention being taken by Tottenham and Manchester United is positive for Mikel Arteta’s side who can continue away from the spotlight

Instead of focusing on the exceptional talent on show at Arsenal, including the in-form player in the Premier League right now in Odegaard, and the unrelentingly exquisite performances of a 20-year-old who is integral in the future of the England national team, the headlines are being stolen elsewhere.

United’s hilarious collapse against Manchester City where they threw the towel in at half-time is getting its fair share of airtime. The club’s search for a permanent manager is underway and every single day a new leak from inside the dressing room wriggles its way onto the morning paper’s headlines.

Then there is England’s darling, Harry Kane, surpassing Thierry Henry’s all-time scoring record in the Premier League as they blew an impressively catastrophic Everton side away 5-0. Kane is back at world class form and the adoration for him from the press will never wane, but this is after Spurs recently lost four out of five Premier League matches.

United, meanwhile, are behind Arsenal in the table having played three more matches. Yet still, despite what is being cooked up in the red half of north London, Arsenal are left mostly untouched.

Major pundits in this country like Gary Neville will tear United a new one only to then say that they ‘don’t trust’ Arsenal and think United are still in a strong position to claim top four. Arsenal are being dismissed from numerous quarters.

And you know what? Good.

While Arsenal should, realistically, be given more attention, the media light being shined elsewhere is precisely what this team needs. The job isn’t done yet and the more that gets spoken about Cristiano Ronaldo and Antonio Conte is more time for Arsenal to lurk under the radar and keep accumulating points.

Let the spotlight hone in on the media favourites. Let Saka keep putting in performances that leave you speechless. Let Arteta keep working on aspects in the training ground while Sauron’s eye is fixed on Rivendell.

Day by day, game by game. That’s Arsenal’s focus.