Man City just gave Arsenal fans another reason to want revenge

The Premier League has a huge stain on it right now, and everybody knows it. Man City themselves must know they are the stain, even if they protest their innocence. Of course, they have every right to an appeal, but good luck convincing any fan you're innocent when the guilty charges are in the triple digits.

Arsenal won at the weekend. It was an ugly win, but it was a deserved win in the end. Yet, as an Arsenal fan, the joy of the win lasted little over 24 hours.

Any win feels pointless when, let's face it, the Premier League is in its most sorry state ever. This season, unless Man City face the necessary repercussions, fans are bound to be disenfranchised.

Man City players sent a clear message to the Premier League

What makes matters worse is how Man City is acting. There is absolutely zero remorse from the club or the players for taking this beautiful game away from us and making it ugly. They have embodied the villain role, and it doesn't suit them. Like, at all.

The banners from the fans are one thing - as much as we can scoff at them, they are fans. Fans stick by their club regardless. My disdain for Man City comes from the players.

It was the first time we have seen them take the pitch since the Premier League's statements, and nobody is surprised by how they acted. The smug looks at the camera, the 'we know who we are' body language - if it was ragebait, the whole football world was baited.

There is a lot of talk right now about the 'Red Cartel,' and how Financial Fair Play rules were introduced to protect Arsenal, Liverpool and Man United's monopoly over English football. That is a subjective conspiracy theory - what is objective are the rules that everybody (including the Red Cartel) is expected to follow. Man City didn't follow them.

Football (the sport) must win, even if football (the business) tries to stop it

All hope is not lost, of course. If this appeal drags out for as long as fans expect it to, the only saving grace is for teams to challenge Man City on the pitch, and Liverpool did. Up until Ryan Gravenberch's red card, whose legitimacy you could certainly argue, the Reds were the far better team.

There is no denying that Man City's closest competition this season is Arsenal. It was good vs evil last season, and Arsenal won that battle. Now, they need to do it again.

The truth is that, while Man City's charges have made the mainstream over the last few weeks, the impact of them has been felt for decades. Everybody knew deep down that Man City were operating in their own unfair lane. That sick, empty feeling we all got when Man City were winning titles? That was it. That was us knowing.

Man City players' cockiness and clear loyalty to their club- the club everybody knows has cheated- only add fuel to Arsenal's fire. At the end of November, evil comes to the Emirates Stadium. It will be cinema.

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