Published: 24 April, 2014

ARSENAL by Richard Osley

WHO'D have thought at the end of the 1980s that wanting somebody else to win it for a change would mean Liverpool? But here we are, most neutrals, hoping they see through their Premiership push.

There is a feeling that Liverpool should have it because somehow they are classier than the grotesque money-burners at Man City and Chelsea, knights ready to outrun the baddies.

It's  a myth. For all the talk of Stephen Gerrard's blind loyalty to Liverpool, he was once close to accepting a fat pay packet at Chelsea. The club have not been skinflints in the gluttonous transfer market either and if we must talk about class, then Luis Suarez's corny theatrics and public disloyalty at the start of the season, not to mention a suspension for biting, makes the argument all a bit futile. No club can now claim the rights on “being classy” any more.  Look at the embarrassing way Jose Mourinho's Chelsea faced defeat to Sunderland.  Then there's Tottenham's laughable endless manager-swapping, traditional West Ham's fans singing  gas chamber songs at Spurs, and Newcastle's head-butting manager. Man United became an impatient sacking club this week.

And you can't, sadly, leave out Arsenal, selling the name of their new stadium to a sponsor to the highest bidder.

So it's just better for none of us to claim our clubs exude class in the way history book fantasists still believe.

Liverpool are the pick now for what they do on the pitch, always exciting to watch. And for not being Chelsea. Or Nasri. Good luck to them.

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