Previews

A solid and composed if unspectacular performance, with the help of Diaby’s freshly healed ankle, in the midlands gives us our seventh away win of the season and sees us leapfrog Liverpool into third place in the table and maybe a bit of confidence injected back

It's time to stand up and be counted. The next three league matches will shape our season.

A solid and composed if unspectacular performance, with the help of Diaby’s freshly healed ankle, in the midlands gives us our seventh away win of the season

While we avoided losing four consecutive games in four different competitions, we still need to avoid the unenviable feat of being knocked out of three cup competitions in eleven days. We go into a game against a boring side, trailing 1-0

After five cup games in a row and thirteen televised games in all competitions in a row, we return to the Premiership on Saturday for a 3pm

Time to move on and look to yet another cup. Let’s win this one to make up for the weekend. Thanks to probably the most sleep inducing football match that will ever be played at Ashburton Grove we have another fixture squeezed into our already congested list. Not many teams more fitting to face the wrath of a thoroughly pissed off Arsenal side ready to kick seven shades of shite out of anyone in our way following 'The Battle of Cardiff' or whatever Sky will call it.

So the Champions League finally kicks off again after a two and a half month break. The players only a day to recuperate after, er, doing very little on Saturday and will now be in Eindhoven preparing to face PSV in the Phillips Stadium. Wenger has talked about the importance of scoring an away goal, and he has a point.

So here we are. The kids have finally gotten us to a Carling Cup Final after years of owning Premiership sides up and down the competition but never quite making it to the last stage

I’ve only just about recovered from last night. God only knows how the players are doing.

So we go from playing one set of northern time wasting fouling moaning knobs, to, er, playing another set of northern time wasting fouling moaning knobs. And on Saturday, we play some northern time wasting fouling moaning knobs if we win on Wednesday. Best league in the world. We return to our most favoured of northern hunting grounds after