We can all sit and point fingers at Wenger for the shambles we are in but I won’t be a party to that. The board in my opinion are solely to blame. Put the cash down and Wenger would strengthen. Why wait till the sales of Cesc and Nasri before we start making arrangements for replacements when all knew they would leave at some point this summer. Why not make the required purchases before

Omomo14 manages to do what I couldn’t, put into words how he felt about our humiliating result at Old Trafford. He is a bigger man than me.

Distraught. That’s the feeling I had after 90mins of total humiliation we suffered at the hands of Man United. I was pretty confident few hours before the game. But as the hour drew closer and reports started flying in about Sagna and Vermaelen missing the game panic. fear creeped in.

I knew a defeat was 80% certain but still had little hope that we could get something out of the game if only we fought like we did against Udinese in Italy.

We had our backs to the wall early on. United came with a very taught out plan and executed it with so much velocity. The pace at which they attacked. us with was scary. Young, Nani, Rooney, Evra went Lords Of The  Ring on  us.  At some point it was as if we were chasing shadows.

Szczesny was great, nothing he would have done to stop 6 or 7 of their goals and it could have been worse had he not made some top class saves. Sad he was at the end, resulting from some awful defending.

Our defence was in “sixes and sevens”, couldn’t match Man United’s attack, stride for stride. Djourou was poor. People will say poor is an understatement and to be honest I won’t fault their view. How he let Welbeck bully him for the 1st goal. I will never understand. Koscielny, his defence mate was on the other hand solid. He  made tackles that you will stand and applaud. His interventions as usual was spot on, His aerial duels was also impressive and his ball  passes out of defence was equally impressive. But as the saying goes, “ a tree can not make a forest” which was the case at Old Trafford.

Oh my. Our full backs on the day were atrocious, I like the fight and fire Jenkinson has but still it wasn’t enough. Young and Evra were too good for him. Frustration led to him being “red carded” which is a bitter pill to swallow for one so young. A much more experienced Traore who has played the EPL before with Portsmouth and went on loan to Juventus last season should have performed better but he was worse. Traore’s positional sense was poor to say the least. He was caught out times with out number. Can’t say more!!!

Our midfield was makeshift, Coquelin, Ramsey and Rosicky were no match for the vibrant and forceful duo of Cleverly and Anderson largely because they had the pace of Nani and Young on the wings and Rooney who dropped deep to increase their numbers in midfield. In my opinion Coquelin did reasonably well but at this point reasonably well  to be honest didn’t save us.

The only positive from this disastrous performance is that we have got goals in this team. We could have levelled the scores when we were 3-1 down  had we taken two chances missed by RVP and Arshavin. Not to mention the penalty missed.

We missed the likes of Vermaelen, Sagna, Gibbs, Frimpong, Song, Diaby, Wilshere and Gervinho plus the departures of Cesc and Nasri in the game but still that doesn’t take away how good United were. They were the better side for vast majority of the game.

RVP sums it up perfectly: “Injuries are not an excuse. They have players out as well. You can’t hide behind that.”

Our supporters on Sunday at Old Trafford  were nothing short of awesome. They sang their hearts out even as we were drowning in goals again and again. Three Thousand fans rocked the stadium and I must confess I had goose bumps all over. I’m truly proud to be a supporter of this great club. Fact that things aren’t going as planned for us doesn’t take away the fact that we are ARSENAL FC! We are GUNNERS!  We shall move past this Ugly Ballad.

We can all sit and point fingers at Wenger for the shambles we are in but I won’t be a party to that. The board in my opinion are solely to blame. Put the cash down and Wenger would strengthen. Why wait till the sales of Cesc and Nasri before we start making arrangements for replacements when all knew they would leave at some point this summer. Why not make the required purchases before sanctioning their transfers? I see most clubs that lost key players this summer replace them before effecting sales. So why are we different? Leaving it this late is unacceptable.

I would give an arm to be next to Wenger now, he really needs some comforting. I’m sure he is distraught. A 2 weeks break isn’t what we want right now, we need a match fast to right this wrong and I mean NOW!!!