Everybody loves to win right, especially a commanding win, but when the manner of that win is so utterly devastating against your arch rivals, that win has a sweetness to it that is hard to describe. It's a win you can almost taste.
Current champions Manchester City were utterly destroyed by Arsenal yesterday afternoon.
Sure, the boys in insipid pale blue flapped around a bit like a fish on a line but the sheer might of Arsenal‘s teamwork and individual performances landed us one of the biggest wins in recent memory.
Earlier this season at the Etihad Stadium, meeting Myles Lewis-Skelly for the first time, City’s toad-faced Erling Haaland demanded to know: "Who are you?"
That proved to be an angry and ill-temptered 2-2 draw that saw Lewis-Skelly pick up a yellow while still warming up as substitute!
Well, Haaland won’t need to ask twice.
Yesterday afternoon Lewis-Skelly, at just 18, inspired a 5-1 win that keeps Arsenal right in the title race - and delivered a goal celebration for the ages which took aim right at City's sulking striker.
A name that was once unfamiliar to the gibbon-mouthed muppet Haaland will now be burned on his pea-sized memory.
For after scoring his first Arsenal goal, Lewis-Skelly dropped to his knees before crossing his arms in the meditation celebration so often used by petulant man-child Haaland himself.
The teenager relished this moment of pure theatre. His Arsenal team-mates gathered around to allow him to milk every second.
In an instant it became an iconic image that sealed Lewis-Skelly in the hearts of every Arsenal fan.
Our five goals came from Ødegaard (2'), Partey (56'), Lewis-Skelly (62'), Havertz (76'), and Nwaneri (90'+3)
After Lewis Skelly's amazing goal it was perhaps that final goal that shared the honours of defining the match; 17-year-old Ethan Nwaneri, picked out superbly by Declan Rice, bent a fabulous shot into the far corner.
The crowd went absolutely bat-shit crazy.
Any hopes or fears that had been shared at the gaygooners meet-up beforehand turned to wild and ecstatic celebrations in the pub afterwards.
Keeping pace with league leaders Liverpool was all we had hoped for but to do it in such a fashion makes you realise why you go to football in the first place - to savour such incredible passionate scenes of joy and delight.
Onwards and upwards my friends.
@Arsenal
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