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rsène Wenger believes Arsenal now have the players to win the Premier League. Of course he does. He also thought they had the players to win the league when Igors Stepanovs was in the squad.
Yet as they stopped saying at Arsenal: Arsène knows. Except, this time, maybe he does. Arsenal should win the league. That doesn’t mean they will, or that they will have failed if they do not, because Manchester City and Liverpool, in particular, look very tough opposition. Yet here’s what they are not anymore: the plucky underdogs.
There was a lot of sympathy for Arsenal, and Mikel Arteta, as City hunted them down last season. Many observers considered taking on the beautiful machine Pep Guardiola has constructed an impossible job. When
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