Arsenal - MU battle: Something left to remember!!!

The rivalry between MU and Arsenal has been broken. And now, when people suddenly have to talk about the Arsenal - MU pair, it is talking about something that has collapsed, that no longer exists.

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Superstar David Beckham skipped training because he had to stay home to look after the children and let his wife go shopping. How could Sir Alex Ferguson stand it? However, that was still not enough for singer Victoria Adams - Beckham's wife - to "take the top spot" in the list of the most hated people of Coach Ferguson. The press interviewed: "If you had a bullet, would you shoot Victoria or Coach Arsene Wenger?". Sir Alex replied, after thinking: "Can I have two?".

Of course, that is just the “bullshit” of writers. English football is above all entertainment, why should we hate each other so much! But, the essence of the matter is that the confrontation between MU and Arsenal, between Ferguson and Wenger, has been pushed to such a climax. They are the “great duo” of the Premier League.

To talk about the Premier League, we must first talk about them. And we must immediately talk about the most specific, most important, most decisive detail: who will win the race ahead. During the first decade of the Premier League, Blackburn Rovers were the only team besides Arsenal and MU to win the championship, and only once.

But the story of Arsenal and MU in the Premier League began to fade after Arsenal's "lifetime" championship in the 2003/04 season. That was the season Arsenal won the championship with an unbeaten record. More notably, that was the first season that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich owned Chelsea.

The very next season, Abramovich's ruble and the coaching talent of a Jose Mourinho in his prime brought Chelsea to the championship. The Premier League became... a three-man affair. And among the three prestigious coaches, Wenger always had to endure a miserable fate, with an unchangeable script, maintained until now: he always had to play a supporting role.

The rivalry between MU and Arsenal was not just broken. It gradually faded into oblivion. And now, when people suddenly have to talk about the Arsenal - MU pair, it is talking about something that has collapsed, that no longer exists. A new milestone: for the first time in 40 years, Arsenal and MU clashed in the second half of the season, in a situation where both were not in the Top 4 of the National Championship. Let me emphasize: that is the English National Championship, it is history. That is not the Premier League anymore. Because which Premier League appeared the last time that both Arsenal and MU were... so mediocre!

40 years ago, the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, passed away. The French team PSG was founded 7 years earlier. Today's most famous coaches, such as Antonio Conte, Mauricio Pochettino, Zinedine Zidane, Pep Guardiola, are all young boys. The giant Bayern, who everyone knows has dominated German football for generations, had only won the Bundesliga 4 times. And that was when Liverpool won the European Cup 1 for the first time. Now, their number of C1 Cup wins is only behind AC Milan and Real Madrid. That's enough to show how old the story of Arsenal and MU is.

In football as in life, there are things that are only appreciated when they are lost. If only Europe could return to the days when every club had to be self-reliant, relying mainly on self-trained talent, instead of simply throwing hundreds of millions of euros to buy stars, the game might not be as monotonous as it is now.

The “Bosman ruling” - perhaps the most important event, with the greatest impact on all of top-flight football - only appeared in 1995. A few generations before that, Arsenal and MU were competing for supremacy. Then many more generations later, in a different football world, Arsenal and MU were still competing for supremacy. How shocking! It seems that the Premier League has lost something very special, when whether Arsenal or MU wins tonight... it doesn't matter!

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