I'm always amazed at how consistently and hilariously biased British commentators are towards British players and teams. I know that most of the english language audience are either from Britain themselves or EPL obsessed foreigners, but the lengths to which certain guys go to talk up their favourite guys and gloss over their shortcomings is really astounding. There's one dude in particular (don't know his name, cockney accent, pompous sounding calls lots of premier league games) who I heard a few weeks ago trying to criticize AVB for not starting Lampard all the time despite the fact that he was having a terrible game right in front of his eyes. Isn't feigned impartiality supposed to be one of the main requirements of any sports announcer?
To be fair to the Sky Sports guy, he did admit that Arsenal were playing terribly, it just took him an hour longer than it should have. Maybe he felt that pointing out how bad they were would ruin the drama of the moment (it is the champions league after all).