I dislike winning big games because fans for literally 8 years now act like one win means things have turned around.... they haven't. ONce again we get Walcott, who was dire, saying the win against Bayern means Arsenal are for real... seriously?
We lost two games against dramatically easier teams but that is ignored, we won a game, lets pretend we'll win a title, get thrashed next time, everyone will act like it's Arsenal being Arsenal.
What I do is take the season as a whole, I don't do the stupid fan thing of "zomg we won a game, we'll win the title, zomg", nor the lows of "zomg we lost a game, worst team in the world".
We won't win anything significant with Wenger again, nor with Walcott as a starting striker. How many times has Giroud come on the pitch and made Arsenal a threat while with Walcott we look a joke? He passed to the keeper what a half dozen times last night. Even the one genuine save he produced, well Martial from a much much harder position scored from a header by actually putting it in an unsaveable position. His other shots and multiple crosses were horrific.
But screw that, it's that he and Arsenal fans take a single win as a sign of things, I don't, it's the same old Arsenal. We beat Utd and people act like it's the first win against a top four team in years, it isn't. What Arsenal have done for most of the last 8 years is only win 20-40% of our top four games when to win titles winning 50-75% of them is what is required.
I thought we'd win this game, honestly, why? Same reason as always, we were expected to win the first two easy games and we fluffed them, we were absolutely expected to lose this game, see any difference. Pressure, it's Wenger's key problem with this team int he past 8 years. We crumble under pressure and excel when no one expects anything of the team. Conversely Bayern had both made this game unimportant by being so dominant and put themselves under pressure from an unbeaten run no one would shut up about.
This all screamed Arsenal producing a good performance and winning to me, then Arsenal fans getting all giddy, Walcott as always shooting his mouth off despite another woeful performance from him. What will follow, after beating Bayern we'll be expected to be good away to them and win other games in this group and most likely we'll fluff them with the pressure on. We beat Utd, but we'll fluff another game.
This has happened every year multiple times, the win a game no one expects them to, massive hype about what it means, then crashing down to earth 2-3 games later with an embarrassing loss. Literally 8 years and fans still react like these things are coincidences and not predictable. The problems are clear as day, the players who suck continue to suck, the ones Wenger plays constantly regardless of how much they suck, the top players we lose because they don't settle for this rubbish.
No team in Europe spends anywhere near as much as we do to fail to win the league title or a european title, none. Other teams that haven't won a european or league title in the past 8 years are spending 100mil less than us a year. Several teams who spend 100mil less than us(Dortmund, Atletico) have won things and both have reached a CL final. There are no bigger failures in football in the world currently and Arsenal fans are happy with this status quo.
