Arsenal’s triumph in finally winning the Premier League again after 22 long, often eyeball-wrenchingly tortuous years has gone down like a Keir Starmer motivational ‘I’m not leaving!’ speech, which is ironic given the Prime Minister is an avid Gooner like me. It’s hard to understand why a club that boasts a fanbase including us, Jeremy Corbyn, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, the late Osama bin Laden and Prince Harry (whose matchday allegiance has followed a similar path to his royal duties, in that he never turns up) attracts such opprobrium that we were recently named the ‘most-hated supporters’ in the league. But as with Millwall in their hooligan heyday, if no one likes us, we don’t care.
Throughout Sunday’s coronation at the (Crystal) Palace, the 3,000 travelling Arsenal fans proudly bellowed: ‘WE ARE UNBEARABLE!’ Though my smug glee was momentarily suspended when I was allowed to walk across the pitch with my sons to witness the trophy-lifting, and various groups in the hospitality boxes began chanting: ‘Piers Morgan is a wanker!’ I wouldn’t have minded so much, but they were Arsenal fans.
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