One Of Us Speaks – We Keep Getting Misunderestimated

Arsenal has finished higher than the Guardian’s preseason prediction for six years running. You know, their writers aren’t idiots – as a group they’re about as good as it gets in the football world.
And I’m sure you’re aware that they’re not the only ones – Arsenal’s slide has been predicted all over the place for at least ten years. In August 2003 we were about to drop out of the top two because we hadn’t done any business, while both Chelsea and Manchester United had added to their squads.
On a train journey during that hot summer I remember picking up a discarded tabloid and reading an opinion piece suggesting Wenger would be a managerial casualty in 2003-04. Yeah, we know what happened next.
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