Our talismanic captain Robin van Persie has been in fine form and is currently leading the goal scorers log with 11 goals. His hat-trick against Chelsea is still fresh in my mind and I really can’t help thinking the level he would have been at, had he stayed injury free 2 years back. He is currently on 29 goals in 28 games in the league this calendar year(2011), a feat only bettered by Ronaldo of

4 wins in a role in the league since we last lost to our tiny neighbours at the Lane. After the game the feeling in the Arsenal camp was all doom and gloom, crisis talk everywhere and the talk of finishing outside the top 4 for the first time in Wenger’s reign, some even went as far as saying we would be in a relegation battle.

Fast forward to the 7th of November and the mood has definitely changed, we have put together 4 wins in the league, gone through to the quarter final to face Man City in the Carling Cup and are top of our Champions league group ahead of Marseille and Dortmund with 8 points.

To think only some few weeks ago, some fans were asking for the head of Wenger. That in it self, is truly despicable. Where is your f**king faith? In as much as I didn’t like the state we were in, i never for once questioned the most successful manager in our history.

I know we aren’t there yet but the signs are good. We have climbed from 17th on the log to 7th and are level on point with King Kenny’s Liverpool. Our run of 4 straight wins in the league has seen us dispatch Sunderland(3-1), Stoke(3-1), Chelsea(5-3) and West Brom(3-0), a run of wins that Cesc and Nasri couldn’t boast of last season.

Our talismanic captain Robin van Persie has been in fine form and is currently leading the goal scorers log with 11 goals. His hat-trick against Chelsea is still fresh in my mind and I really can’t help thinking the level he would have been at, had he stayed injury free 2 years back. He is currently on 29 goals in 28 games in the league this calendar year(2011), a feat only bettered by Ronaldo of Real Madrid and Messi of Barcelona.

Only 5 players have gone on to score 30 or more goals in a calendar year in England and RVP looks set to join the gang. The media and their dogs haven’t seen anything negative to write about the Arsenal lately, so instead they have come out to tag us as a ‘one man team’ which is definitely bull crap!!!

After the West Brom game I came across some interesting facts on twitter concerning the ‘one man’ team bull crap; In the last 5 games, Spurs have had 5 different goalscorers while United have had 6 different goalscorers and Arsenal on the other hand have had 9 different goalscorers. (Via  @ArsenalGent)

I actually do not care if we are a ‘one man’ team, the idea of having some one like RVP is that he is there to bang in the goals and hopefully he continues to do so.

The Verminator has returned from injury and has started our last 2 games which we have gone on to keep clean sheets. He has been paired with both Mertesacker & Koscielny and has done brilliantly with each of them.

Vermaelen in my opinion would always be first to the team sheet along with RVP but who partners him at the back remains Wenger’s biggest head ache, a good head ache to have though. Koscielny has been the man on form and single handedly kept our back line together against Chelsea in the first half the other day. Mertesacker has also done well and came in to save the day when things wasn’t rosy with his experience and calming influence.

I’m a big fan of Koscielny and Vermaelen combo but sometimes I wonder if they have got the right balance. In my honest opinion the right balance would come from the Mertesacker and Vermaelen partnership. Well its not for me to decide and I’m sure we would see more of our top 3 defenders in league permitting injuries.

Carl Jenkinson is one player some section of our fans love to hate reason because he was bought for a tiny £1m. When Fergie was coughing out £18m for Phil Jones and King Kenny was churning out £16m for Henderson some our fans were expecting Wenger to do the same. What if Wenger had gone on to buy Jenkinson from Charlton for say £10m, then the love from all would have come naturally…. That’s just sad!!!

I know Jenkinson didn’t help his course with less than average performances against Man UTD and Spurs but we can’t brush aside what he has done in some other games. I’ve seen him dominate Seb Larsson(Sunderland) and Andre Ayew(Marseille), put up fine performances in the home and away tie against Udinese in the Champions league qualifying tie and come out tops just recently against West Brom.

For me, the game against West Brom was his best in an Arsenal Jersey. He dominated the right flank, didn’t let Jerome Thomas get a sniff and ventured forward with relative ease. He also put in some wicked** crosses into the box which on a normal day, we have found it hard to come by.

We have just one fullback(Sagna) lagging behind in the ‘decent crosses’ department and hopefully he learns from the likes of Jenkinson, Andre Santos and Gibbs.

The other day I got into a mild argument with somebody on twitter… He was like he doesn’t  “know what Arteta brings to the team?” WOW, I was kind of shocked….. It is there for all to see! Like I said a while back, Wenger didn’t buy Arteta to replace Cesc and in this current market, you won’t see a like for like replacement for Cesc.

Arteta came into Arsenal with a wealth of experience and has formed a solid partnership with Song in the middle of the pack. Arteta keeps the ball well, his short and long passing range is top class and can pass the ball with either foot. His defensive ability shouldn’t be understated. He has come into the side and given our midfield a sense of belonging, now Song can venture forward and add to our attack in the final third knowing he has the experience of Arteta just in front of our defence.

We have also started to see the best of Ramsey which is a welcome development. In the past few weeks I’ve seen him come off the bench to score the winner in the final minutes of the Champions league game against Marseille, put in a brilliant assist for Gervinho against Stoke, also put in a glorious through ball to Gervinho who in turn set up RVP for the 1st goal against Chelsea then against West Brom he disected their defence to put Theo through on goal who couldn’t finish but RVP was there to mop up and set us up for all 3 points.

Like I said earlier in my write-up, we aren’t there yet but the signs are good which in my opinion is a massive positive, plus we go into the interlul with joy in our hearts for the first time since the season started.

Ok! I’m done for the day… Hope the interlul works for you guys. Bye!!!