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Restless Arsenal fans experiencing rare contentment

Reared on a decade and a half of frustration and serial unrest, Arsenal fans everywhere are rubbing their eyes and wondering, could it really be...?

What is happening at the top of the table?

Manchester City, having won back to back titles, signed the most terrifying goal machine man has witnessed since the days of Dixie Dean and the WM formation and as a result are going to finish... second?

As someone observed on social media recently, "You can take the man out of Dortmund..."

Prior to the season, there was a school of thought that Haaland might disrupt City's state-of-the-art passing game by forcing too many opposition kick-offs. By the time the big Norwegian had scored his 15th league goal, nine games in, people were inclined to think this wasn't such a great problem.

Erling couldn't have counted on Arsenal suddenly morphing into the noughties version of themselves and taking the league by storm.

The personality of the Arsenal fan had been moulded by the long civil war over their former manager-for-life Arsene Wenger.

From at least 2009 onwards, boiling frustration was the default mode of the Arsenal fan. After a while, it began to seem that Arsenal supporters had gotten into the whole football fan business primarily for the iconoclastic thrill of raging at a fallen deity. The famed Arsenal Fan TV became a market leader in the new growth area of viral football fan rants.

Their most celebrated contributor was the late Claude Callegari, so prominent a talking head that he was subsequently honoured with a Wikipedia page. A ferocious critic of Wenger in his latter years, Mr Callegari regularly delivered himself of the kind of rants capable of triggering an avalanche in Peru.

But Claude was just one of a host of stars. A

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