Arsenal can count themselves lucky to be top of the Premier League table. There, I said it.
Yes, I am a Tottenham supporter and it's hard to see the Gunners top of the table. Again. After last season.
This year feels a bit different though, with Arsenal smashing all-comers in their path in 2024 so far, albeit getting a bit fortunate to beat Brentford 2-1 on Saturday evening.
I want to get one thing straight though — I don't think Arsenal have got lucky in terms of their matches — Kai Havertz dive-gate apart. I think they're lucky that Liverpool are not ahead of them in the standings.
Now, I've openly admitted my Spurs bias already, but while watching Arsenal win the league would be galling, seeing Liverpool do the same would be almost as bad. I've never been a Reds admirer, I find many of their supporters tiresome and self-entitled, given their profitable history. Man City are the lesser of three evils for me, even with 115 FFP allegations hanging over them.
On to my point though. It is a long time ago now, but Reds supporters will not forget what happened at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on September 30.
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The two red cards on that day, in my opinion, were rightly brandished. Liverpool can have no qualms with them at all. However, there was a Luis Diaz goal that was ruled out, incorrectly for offside in probably the worst VAR mistake that will ever be made.
It was a goal. VAR made a mistake. A big one. And Liverpool should have had at least one and could have even won three points from that game had it been correctly allowed, given it was 0-0 at the
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