Fast Forward: Imagining The Day Arsenal Win The 2013/14 Premier League Title
Imagine: It’s the 3rd of May 2014 and it’s a brilliant sunny day in north London. We’re at the Emirates stadium where a scintillating Arsenal side is beating a dogged West Bromwich Albion side 1-0 with a minute remaining in the penultimate game of the Premier League Season.
Arsenal are 1-0 up thanks to a goal from Golden Boot winner Olivier Giroud and know that if they hold on, they will win the title thanks to Chelsea losing the day before, and thus the lead would be four points which would be impossible for Chelsea to recoup.
Referee Phil Dowd looks into his watch and blows his whistle. Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny embrace warmly; their marshalling of the defence with the most clean sheets in the league was admirable. Bacary Sagna, fresh from signing a new three-year deal which will probably lead to him retiring at Arsenal, jumps up in the air in celebration. In the middle of the pitch, the figures of two young Brits hugging on the ground can be seen.
The young men are Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey, who had both dovetailed brilliantly throughout the season and dominated many a midfield. Up ahead, Olivier Giroud is carrying Theo Walcott on his shoulders and masquerading around the pitch proudly. Mesut Özil and Lukas Podolski are also ecstatically hugging each other.
Most importantly though, the camera shifts to Arséne Wenger, and the tired Frenchman is actually laying with his knees on the ground, face in hands and shaking it in disbelief. He had waited so long, suffered so much, tried so hard and in the end he had earned his just reward. He had won the Premier League with an excellent record of 28-8-2.
It was their day, and it was only the beginning…
Just imagine.
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