Collection Independent Supporters Association chair Lois Langton seems the membership were right to agree to a guard of honor for newly topped Barclays Premier League winners Manchester United in front of Sunday's series at the Emirates Stadium - but informed Robin van Persie should assume a ahot receptiona. United sealed a 20th domestic championship on Monday night if they beat Aston Villa 3-0 at Old Trafford, where former Gunners' chief Van Persie created a hat-trick. The concept champions have traditionally been clapped out onto the message inside their next match, with United having done so themselves in 2005 for Chelsea, who then came ultimately back the gesture two years later, and also Arsenal when they came to Highbury in 1991. Nevertheless, with passions still running high among a few of the Emirates Stadium devoted by the way in which Van Persie left last summer in a A24million shift, there were suggestions these disgruntled fans will turn their backs when the groups come out from the canal in protest. While AISA chair Langton feels the team are right to show United value of the results, she can realize why thoughts can boil over as far as Van Persie is worried. "I think we have to give the guard of honour, when I do not want us to check as though we are being petty by not giving the guard of honour," Langton told Press Organization Sport. "For it not to take place and for supporters not to recognize the Manchester United team because they emerge would really increase Robin van Persie's confidence. "I would then access it with the and rather us only recognize them Sport - otherwise the focus will be on Robin van Persie, rather than the Strategy group, which will be what we're said to be going there to support. "Having said that, the truth is he will get a hot reception." Langton added: "Football is really a game of feeling and interest, and there are a large amount of followers who feel very strongly about the circumstances where Robin van Persie left. "We had the seven years of him being wounded with us, he then had his one injury-free good season, and at the end of this he made a decision to keep. "The record he arrived with when he left, that we think he thought showed he identified with supporters, actually showed how very far removed he was from supporters. "He fully called it wrong, he did not appreciate how Arsenal fans felt about him and about the team. "He alienated himself from supporters by the way where he created his move, that's still felt very strongly by Arsenal supporters and is what's going to create the answer that he's going to have when he comes back on Sunday." Van Persie has continued his great goalscoring kind this year, chalking up 28 in all contests and is in line to get the Premier League's Golden Boot once again. Langton, however, feels Van Persie's rhetoric and gestures have gone little way to calming any stresses. "He has also not been terribly polite towards Arsene Wenger, with the party after that penalty was scored by him (against Stoke), when he went over to the touchline and appreciated (Sir) Alex Ferguson," she added. "It sends out a note that Arsene Wenger hasn't been he was brought by the one who to the point he surely got to now, ascertaining who got him to where he's today. "When he stumbled on us he was a slight persona non grata in Holland, where he had difficulties at Feyenoord. It had been a threat buying him, and without question He have been made by Arsene Wenger in to the player he's today." Arsenal - who should do without striker Olivier Giroud for three games after the Football Association recently refused his appeal against a card at Fulham - keep a thin one-point lead over fourth-placed Chelsea and are two before north London opponents Tottenham, albeit having played a more, as the struggle for Champions League diploma seems set to visit the wire. Langton feels the Gunners can go on to boost their group on the summer, when Wenger is said to have a warchest at his disposal. "There is definitely an reputation by the membership that some thing needs to be achieved to link the gap," she stated, "but the hierarchy and followers still trust Arsene Wenger to establish who is needed to do that, rather than it really being about that we need to buy high-profile players."
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