ARSENAL fans may be dreaming about the title this year, but this didn’t stop them from still feeling bitter about former ace Robin van Persie.
Van Persie famously left Arsenal for Manchester United in 2012 where he won the only Premier League title of his career after scoring 26 goals and adding 15 assists for United in the 2012/13 season.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1640061685581881345Robin van Persie tipped Arsenal to win the league this season[/caption]
Getty Images – GettyVan Persie was an Arsenal icon before leaving for Manchester United in 2012[/caption]
AFPArsenal fans could not forgive him leaving as he won the 2013 title with rivals United[/caption]
The Dutchman, now a coach at Feyenoord, may have been attempting to reconcile some of the bad blood between himself and the fans of his former employer as he tipped them to win the title.
Van Persie, 39, told Sky Sports: “If you look at this period of time this is where every point really counts.
“They had a couple of difficult games [but] they got the three points there so that is what a champions team can is made of. They’ve proven that.
“The last stretch is always the difficult one, so interesting to see.
“But my personal feeling is they will go for it and that they will win the league. It’s been a while so I’m happy for them to win it.”
However, Arsenal fans were not in a forgiving mood online.
Taking to Twitter, one fan wrote: “We don’t care about this guy chatting about us. Could’ve gone down as a club legend but sacrificed his career legacy for one trophy.”
A second wrote: “This guyyyy man, stick to one team.”
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A third declared: “Sorry RVP but we’re not friends anymore.”
“We don’t know who u are stop talking about us,” typed a fourth.
A fifth said: “We don’t care man.”
A sixth added: “But he didn’t believe back in the days….”
Meanwhile, another said: “Oh, the little boy inside him got a realisation?”
Arsenal are on track for their first title since 2004, sitting eight points clear of second place Manchester City with just ten games left to play.
United legend Patrice Evra has revealed how Van Persie was surprised by how much harder the Red Devils trained compared to Arsenal when he joined.
Evra said: “Robin, he’d say, ‘Patrice, I’ve never seen people so professional. Training the way you’re training in the training session’.
“He’d say he’d finish the training session, everyone is in the gym. Before training in the gym, after training in the gym.
“That’s why he was like, ‘When I was playing at Arsenal, I was still on the pitch and I’d see kids with convertible cars already going to Harrods or whatever’.”