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Prepare for a hostile reception, Robin... but deep down Arsenal fans



The bottom line is that I want to win trophies with Arsenal, not with anybody else. It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I’m just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it.'


That's Robin van Persie speaking in February 2011.


Well, less than a year after 'listening to the little boy inside him' and moving to Manchester United, having sat in around the top table for 3013 days with his tummy rumbling, the Dutchman has satisfied that hunger.







Same, same: Robin van Persie has simply kicked on since leaving Arsenal for Manchester United...









The sale of Van Persie last year was sold to the Gunners faithful as a 'football decision'. Sure... and financial. Though, after a season in which he has already scored 24 league goals to earn United an extra 20 points, the £24million paid for the 29-year-old barely covers the inconvenience.


The only 'football decision' came from him.


Seeing players return with title medals draped around their necks is hardly a new experience for Arsenal fans.


But when Van Persie arrives at Emirates Stadium on Sunday, the guard of honour he and his newly crowned team-mates will receive will sit more uncomfortably than any other in the last eight barren years.


They will point to the wasted years where horse placenta treatments were the only way the striker would make back page news. They will lament the petulance he showed in his early days - red cards at Stoke and Southampton proving particularly costly.







... with his brilliance enhanced by the better players and environment with which he was surround...








But most of all they hate the fact he hasn't done it with them. His final 18 months were among the best of any player in Arsene Wenger’s reign, laced with moments of genius that combined the powers of Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp in their pomp. And he did it without the supporting cast so enjoyed by the 2004 vintage.


The boos and jeers will be loud come Sunday, deafening even. The overriding emotion will be one of anger, make no mistake. It will, though, be borne out of begrudging respect above anything else.


It is why the 29-year-old was right to turn his back on Arsenal, a club seemingly adverse to ambition, at the peak of his powers.


What stands Van Persie out from the countless others before him out the exit door in N5, is that the glory he basks in this morning is his, all his. It is no bit-part triumph, like those of Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri the year before him.




Dreams come true: And he has got his just rewards, winning the title after eight barren years at Arsenal



Van Persie has been THE reason United have strolled so comfortably to the Premier League title, not so much wrestling it back from rivals City as showing such strength in signing the division's best player to render a fight pointless.


It might even be argued the destination of the title was decided not with three magical whips of that fabled left boot at Old Trafford last night, but with one of his right hand when he signed the contract in July.

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