Evra describes Arsenal as ‘a football training centre’ with no trophies to show

LONDON - Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has mocked Arsenal for failing to win a trophy since 2005 despite playing attractive football.

Evra’s comment comes ahead of Monday’s top-of-the-table Premier League match between the two clubs at Old Trafford.

“For me Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That’s what people remember. It has been five years since they won anything and for a big club like Arsenal that is a crisis,” the Guardian quoted Evra, as saying.

“I hear them being compared to Barcelona, but people in 20 years’ time aren’t going to remember Arsenal’s football. We can lose against them, but at the end of the day, what is there for Arsenal?”

“There is nothing. There are no trophies, there is nothing. Our real enemy is Chelsea. We are more concerned with Chelsea’s results than those of Arsenal, even if we know Arsenal are a great team who can beat Chelsea, us or anyone,” he added.

Evra had also taunted Arsenal in 2009, when he described their Champions League semi-final as “11 men against 11 babies”.

Arsenal had won the 2005 FA Cup after victory over United at the Millennium Stadium, and was crowned Premier League champions in 2004. (ANI)