Man Utd started the Premier League season terribly but hindsight is not quite as harsh when considering the subsequent brilliance of Brighton and Brentford...
. “I can’t even banter Arsenal fans no more. There’s teams below that I can’t even banter,” he continued, a pundit so in sync with his brand that the primary concern at consecutive defeats to start the season was an inability to adequately merk people without reproach.
Supporters of both clubs will be familiar with the vaguely belittling sentiment. Brighton have beaten every member of the Big Six in the Premier League since May 2021 and the only such scalp Brentford are missing from their collection since promotion to the top flight 18 months ago is that of. The reaction tends to be that of disparaging incredulity, like Goliath responding to defeat against David by complaining that he should only be vulnerable to foes of a comparable size.
Even viewed through rose-tinted glasses, no amount of hindsight can reflect kindly on Man Utd’s opening fortnight of the campaign, when a team like Brighton embarrassed them at home and a team like Brentford humiliated them on the road. But those results, chastening and transformative as they were in forcing a period of overdue introspection at Old Trafford, do look a little less shameful in February as opposed to August.
Eight of the 11 players who started against Southampton earlier this month played for Brentford in the Championship, yet still defeated captain James Ward-Prowse insisted after a 3-0 defeat that “I don’t believe they’re a better team than us”. The reason Saints lost, you see, is because complacency at this level will “get punished, even against teams like Brentford”. And there it is.
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