YOU should all want Arsenal to win the league.

I grant you, Spurs fans may have a unique perspective and can tap out of this, but there is good and bad in this title race and it’s time for “neutrals” to pick a side.

I’m no celebration police chief inspector and as Liverpool busted a gut to claim a draw against Arsenal which will do them no good whatsoever in their near mid-table ramble through the league season on Sunday, their fans understandably danced enthusiastically.

But the telling creaks Arsenal are showing with the Manchester City ogres breathing down they necks should be deflating for everyone. When you saw City trounce Bayern Munich like they were swatting a pub team in the Champions League on Tuesday, what you were watching was the best illustration yet of how the team which spends the most amount nearly always wins. That “nearly” is slowly being rubbed out of that sentence – for we are reaching a point where City will most likely be treble winners, matching Manchester United’s 1999 achievement.

It will also be three league titles in a row.

United may see every other accomplishment destroyed. Liverpool’s records could tumble. Who is to say that this will not become four, five, six or even ten in a row for City, as Italy saw during Juventus’s dull decade of domination?

And yet here is a team boringly manufactured with money from a nation state sponsor – a state with dubious human rights record to boot, which only gets mentioned in the far reaches of a Sunday supplement.

In mainstream focus, we only hear how sublime it is to watch Manchester City play, as if Alan Shearer or Danny Murphy have yet to clock a simple truth that if you buy players for £100 million a go, then however you dress it up, that team will win everything, all the time.

They won the league two years in a row, and then bought the lethal striker Erling Haaland. They would have won the league without him no doubt, but why take chances.

Maybe the result against Bayern will wake the rest of Europe from its slumbers and show, that while Arsenal may feel disappointed not to get a prize for the endeavour and craft shown from a squad of players nurtured from within or acquired closer to the £20million shopping basket, this isn’t about the Gunners – it’s about them too.

There will be no Champions League trophies for any of the European teams as City spend and win. Sunday’s thrilling match of football was described as an advert for the best league in the world. It cannot possibly be that if the same team wins it every year ad infinitum.

So, six weeks to go… pick a side.