Mean Lean

I hate International week, mostly because it means there is not much Arsenal news to talk about.

Apologies for the absence in the last week or so. That's what moving house does to you I suppose. I was going to talk in detail about the Everton match but

Its not been a great time for us Gunners in recent weeks. Out of the FA Cup to an average Blackburn side, losing the Carling Cup final to Chelsea after outplaying them for long periods of the game but the killer blow was getting beaten by PSV in the champions league

If anyone needed convincing that Arsene Wenger was going in the right direction with his young project then this surely was the answer.

I didn't want to write about it after the match so I thought I'd wait for a few days and hopefully I'd see it a bit clearer. Nope, still pretty much the same really.

Talk about doing this the hard way! Hopefully that will put the Reebok curse has been put to bed once and for all.

Why oh why do they allow matches to be played on Valentines day.

Robert Pires who was on the same wavelength as his french compatriot Thierry Henry. Freddie Ljungberg's well timed runs were rarely ignored by the classy Dutchman and this produced many goals for Arsenal. For all the negatives we can say about him we had the best left back in the premiership probably in European football.

The injury list continues to grow. Julio's beastly groin had been pulled against Bolton and now is a doubt for the carling cup second leg

As we are heading to a new year, it finally seems as if we are getting closer to having all of our first team players fit and ready for selection. This is obviously a really good thing for the club, fans and the manager but it will also mean that the latter will have some serious decisions to make in the up and coming weeks.