I share a love for football, and have fervently supported Arsenal Football Club for the past 12 years- looking up to heroes such as Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Tony Adams. Having experienced the highlights of my beloved team throughout my time of supporting them, I would like to share what I believe is an insightful, straight-forward and sometimes controversial view that I hold with the rest of the football world. Sadly, having not been to Europe yet I have not seen the magnificent Gunners play in the flesh, but the day on which I do so draws ever closer and I have watched almost every single Arsenal game of the past eight years, despite often having to wake up at 3 or 4 am in the early morning for the Champions League games. I have seen us go unbeaten in the league, win the title at the home of our rivals United, our reserves and youth team reach the final of the Carling Cup and of course our team that set a defensive record reach the Champions League final. Arsenal is not just my interest in football- I try and watch as many games as possible in order to compare and contrast the game played in England with that played abroad by the teams in La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1, the Eredivisie and the Championship, as well as the cup competitions of those leagues. Also, I watch as many International games as I can, trying to see world class footballers perform on the world stage against other world class footballers.
When fans of the English Premier League refer to the 'top four', they are generally talking about Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Ever since Rafa Benitez joined and started reshaping a Liverpool side that often failed to deceive into genuine contenders for honours and Roman Abromovich came in and gave Mourinho so much money to spend that they could afford to buy 21 million bench players like Shaun Wright Phillips, the top four places in the league table have generally been filled by those teams each season. Finishing in one of the top four places gains qualification for ...
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