Arsenal Independent Supporters Association chair Lois Langton seems the team were to agree to a guard of honour for freshly crowned Barclays Premier League winners Manchester United ahead of Sunday's showdown at the Emirates Stadium - but informed Robin van Persie should expect a ahot receptiona. United closed a 20th domestic title on Monday night once they beat Aston Villa 3-0 at Old Trafford, where former Gunners' leader Van Persie left a hat-trick. The title winners have historically been clapped out onto the message within their next match, with United having done therefore themselves in 2005 for the gesture was then returned by Chelsea, who two years later, and also Arsenal when they found Highbury in 1991. However, with passions still running high among a number of the Emirates Stadium dedicated by the manner in which Van Persie left last summer in a A24million transfer, there has been suggestions those dissatisfied supporters may turn their backs when the teams come out from the tunnel in protest. While AISA chair Langton believes the membership are right to show United value of these results, she could understand why emotions can boil over so far as Van Persie is concerned. "I think as I don't want us to check like we are being small by not providing the guard of honour,", we have to give the guard of honor Press Association Sport was told by langton. "For it not to occur and for supporters not to admit the Manchester United team while they emerge would actually enhance Robin van Persie's confidence. "I would then can get on with the and rather us only acknowledge them Sport - usually the emphasis is going to be on Robin van Persie, as opposed to the Collection team, which can be what we're supposed to be going there to guide. "Having said that, the reality is he'll obtain a warm reception." Langton added: "Football is really a game of passion and feeling, and there are certainly a wide range of supporters who feel very strongly about the conditions in which Robin van Persie left. "We had the seven years of him being wounded around, then he had his one injury-free good season, and at the end of the he made a decision to leave. "The statement he arrived with when he left, that I think he felt showed he identified with supporters, actually showed how very far removed he was from supporters. "He fully named it wrong, he didn't appreciate how Arsenal fans thought about him and about the membership. "He alienated herself from supporters by the way in which he brought about his transfer, that's still felt very strongly by Arsenal supporters and is what's going to generate the response that when he comes home on Sunday." he is going to have Van Persie has continued his great goalscoring kind this season, chalking up 28 in every contests and is in line to get the Premier League's Golden Boot yet again. Langton, nevertheless, feels Van Persie's rhetoric and body gestures have gone little way to calming any stresses. "He in addition has not been very respectful towards Arsene Wenger, with the party after that penalty was scored by him (against Stoke), when he ran over to the touchline and shared (Sir) Alex Ferguson," she added. "It sends out an email that Arsene Wenger has not been the one who brought him to the point he surely got to now, analyzing who got him to where he's today. "When he found us he was a minor persona non grata in Holland, where he'd problems at Feyenoord. It absolutely was a danger buying him, and without issue He have been made by Arsene Wenger into the person he's today." Arsenal - who should do without striker Olivier Giroud for three games after the Football Association yesterday rejected his appeal against a card at Fulham - keep a slim one-point lead over fourth-placed Chelsea and are two before north London competitors Tottenham, albeit having performed a more, as the fight for Champions League diploma seems set to attend the wire. Langton seems the Gunners may move to enhance their team over the summer, when Wenger is said to have a warchest at his disposal. "There can be an realization by the club that something needs to be done to link the gap," she said, "but the hierarchy and fans still have trust in Arsene Wenger to identify who is required to do that, in place of it really being about that we need to buy high-profile players."
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