William Benn

There initially appears to be just two basic schools of thought on this matter: the first is that Arsenal have a problem with leadership and the second is (amazingly) that Arsenal do not have a problem with leadership. The first is an argument often used by critics of Wenger and the second used by Wenger

But the sausages we’ve been eating haven’t actually been that bad, have they? Sure the quality has fluctuated but at times they have been pretty damn scrumptious and we’ve gobbled them up by the bucket load without a second thought. And let’s just say for one second that we did bring in a new chef and it was only after he started that we realised our kitchen didn’t even have the ingredients for sausages or caviar and we were forced to eat tripe for the foreseeable future. It was only because our previous chef had somehow managed to make tasty sausages out of old Fairy washing up liquid bottles that we had been eating as well as we had all these years. Imagine that. Then we’d be screwed, wouldn’t we?

The core of this piece deals with our mentality but before I begin I want to list some other positives which you are welcome to write out on flashcards, place face down on a table, mix up

The FA – quick as they are –  haven’t seen fit to pick this up and do something about it which to my mind is incredibly inconsistent. Surely a red card offence is a red card offence no matter what? The referee didn’t give a foul which means that he both didn’t see it and that a retrospective card is

Unfortunately I fear my temperament pre-match may have had much to do with the eventual performance of my beloved team. While the papers screamed ‘expect’, and Arsenal fans wrote ‘believe’, I could do little more than hope, so lacking in confidence was I that I would finally get to see Arsenal celebrate. They say that art mirrors life, and nowhere was that more true than Sunday. I was far more nervous for this game than I had ever

Because I am letting Aaron down by not believing in him. Yes I was devastated when he broke his leg. Yes I felt distraught. I even paid money toward a banner in his honour. But a few days later I got up and I walked around and I saw my friends and I lived my life and I forgot about him

Gibbs also had his best game at left back for a while. He looked assured on the ball and I felt there was an air of confidence about him that had been missing from his recent performances. Miquel also looked

Golly. That’s news to me, I must say. I thought when we completely out-passed teams like Chelsea and Man U and still lost that we were comprehensibly beaten? Was that wrong then? Passing is clearly the most important thing in football so I guess we must have been the best team in

The truth is that the Arsenal of 2011, with all its necessary parts in working order, is a well-oiled machine that is capable of beating any team in the world. For all the talk of how we are going to stop Barcelona there is the small matter of how Barcelona are going to stop us and it’s won’t be as easy as press, press, press. Especially not if we are adopting the same tactic, and to good effect as we have

No-one would have expected it beforehand and however insignificant it may seem that we are now one point closer (insignificant?!) it has been, in my crazy eyes at least, a f*cking good weekend in terms of our challenge for the title. That’s right, a F*CKING GOOD WEEKEND! How many more times can we guarantee that Man U will drop points in the league? We can’t guarantee that at all