Time for us to show the fight the Gooners have. It is important for us to show a united front for this game. What happens off the pitch should be left off the pitch. I hope Wenger does shake things up. I dont think it will be as groundbreaking as one hopes.

I think the most important thing is for us to win without conceding a goal - Even one nil is better than the leakiness of the recent games.


Sorry this is so short I am bloody knackered after the last couple of sleepless nights! - The thing is I wont be sleeping tonight because some nasty man called Anonymous (who I suspect is a gary glitter type (he wanted me to take off a school uniform for him, DIRTY!)) has been calling me some very naughty names. I have made an effort to avoid foul language in my blogs just in case it causes offence. However this person has decided that i have been in need of some C bombs, for everyones information I have had this treatment before...It doesnt hurt as much when its not your mother calling you a c**** 33 times in a 5 minute call. Apparently I am not a true fan.

To be honest mate you are probably spot on. I just travel across the country to watch my team as often as I can afford and spend most of my free time thinking about either how Arsenal can be better or what they are doing well. I don't want to appear to be high and mighty but I dont think someone who analyses an artical and comes to the conclusion that I love myself with my hand is going to win any sort of prize (other than maybe an extra star on his McBadge). I am sorry that I have upset this person - WAIT no I'm really not. Everything I say in this blog is my true feeling and there is a reason for the comment section is for grown up discussion, criticism or even a positive comment??! If you want to abuse someone go to White Heart Lane and give Sol some Racist abuse.

Just remember - sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me naa naa na naaaaa na. Man up pal...u just look pathetic.

Rant over!

RED ARMY 3 points tomorrow!

Now I have been a stern critic of Gallas in the past and am fully aware of the fact that it’s easy to blame him for the problems of the team. Having read that he doesn’t mind being blamed for it then it’s all good! I shall tear into him a bit more...

I am disgusted by the prospect of a fighting fit Gallas having picked up an injury somewhere between being fine while playing against Spurs and being informed that Arsene was partially blaming him for the loss. Wenger is due to make a number of changes for Stoke and I think the CAPTAIN of Arsenal FC ruling himself out is an attempt to dodge the being dropped bullet.

If you look at sport on the whole it is obvious that a player is picked to lead for 2 reasons. The first is because of strong leadership abilities and the second is because the player is consistent. It is rare that a player can meet both of these demands. For example Michael Vaughn captained England because he was a good leader and could read the game very well, he resigned because his form was letting him down and did not think he was worthy of a place in the team. Where as someone like Becks was picked because he was an outstanding player. Martin Johnston was picked because he was both. William Gallas is neither!

I am not saying he should stand down at Arsenal but I am saying the he needs to learn to lead the team or needs to become consistent quickly! The only player to be close to either is Almunia (even though he had a bit of a mare on Weds)

At the risk of alienating readers I'm going to have a go at Britains most popular newspaper (famous for changing sides in order to sell more copies).

Sick of this...the sun have been picking on us which is annoying. As far as I can see the players deserved to be humiliated by Wenger, obviously Clichy did screw up (I cant remember much of it because I repress things!) and according to an "Arsenal source (traitor SCUM)" he was almost in tears which is pretty harsh because he by no means had a rubbish game.

I think the arrogance of the team is to blame and Wenger has probably had to get stroppy more this season than in the last 2 years. I have said before that the Arsenal squad is too divided - there are obvious groups within...The African players, The French players, the Chelski players (with Gallas) etc. This would appear to be dangerous for the squad and I think that Cesc is the only player who seems to get on with everyone. Another reason to make him captain.

I have one major question - Why does Adebayor keep speaking to the press? Does anyone give a toss what he has to say?

I really do hate moaning about Arsenal but I can't help it these things need to be said, even if I do sound like Ade! On a positive note I shall quote my mate Rich (a Newcastle fan) "I love Spurs, no mater how s**t our season is they are always worse!"

Right here are a couple for you...

1, Our manager seems to see everything that goes against us but never sees anything that should go against us.

2, Our defence are bloody brilliant in the Opositions box (Gallas has scored 4 this season...same as Nikki B) but as soon as we have to defend they turn crap? maybe we should play Ade and RvP at centre back?


These arent really contradictions but they are really quite annoying...

It would seem that Clichy has stopped attacking the way he used to a few games ago. I think he is world class but still cant believe that he let Traore go to pompey, we have NO cover for an injury prone player, i think traore was kicking off about not getting enough pitch time.

We continue to play Denilson a player who I thought had a really bright future but has not made the grade at the moment and cant gel with Fabregas - when we have Diaby who was on fire last week but is now not getting a chance.

Right we got turned over through shear stupidity - I have struggled to recall being quite as angry as I was after the game. It just shows that the big derby games lose their importance to the foreign players. Do you really think the 1998 Gooners team would have thrown away the 2 goal lead in 6 minutes?

As I said previously that has killed our season, not so much from a points position but from a mental one. There is a strong possiblity that we could come from a distant third and catch the leaders but we won't win the league. I also don't think we have a strong enough team to do well in the Champions League and we are likely to meet a big 4 club in the FA cup earlier on. I hate to put the team down but I think they deserve it. I promise I will never complain about a team going into the corner again because you CAN get stung!!

There are some things that have started to annoy me in the post match ratings on other sites. It would appear that reputation plays a major role in what people say about a player - Fabregas always gets 1 or 2 points more than he deserves, last night he was pretty quiet but people were still giving him 7s this also plays out badly for the likes of Gallas, Ade (but he deserves it for being overated and rubbish) and Eboue.

Cesc's quote about the Ladies couldn't get beaten was the Sun twisting it he actually said something along the lines of the Ladies are so good that spurs would struggle to beat them. It was also said a while ago so it wasn't a prematch dig at the scum from the wrong end of North London.

I almost think it would be better for the team if they had shed another goal in the last seconds because drawing a game will not give a big enough kick up the backside. I really do feel that Arsenal need to stuff Stoke at least 4-0. A clean sheet is vital Considering we leaked 4 goals against a team bottom of the table (STILL) who were also playing a 4-5-1...VILLAGE

Right, it would appear that we have the full squad avaliable to face the Spurs (obviously not the 2 long termers). People have been writing the Tots off for good reason (mainly because they have been woeful...banter!) I am a bit more concerned they won their last game and have another Brilliant manager - I dont know what they do to them - Could Spurs turn Wenger rubbish? They have done it with Jol and Ramos.

I think its going to be a typical Derby game that we can win easily if we keep our shape and discipline. Spurs have lost their attacking options but dont let that fool you, they have a number of players who could spark into life and upset us.

Gooners do not count your eggs. I have been looking forward to this game for a long while and I just hope we can DESTROY THEM!

This is the biggest game of the season without a doubt and 3 points is critical, if we drop points we will not win silverware this season. Obviously they will defo ruin our season by playing on our pitch....

I was just wondering if anyone knew about the FA coaching badges ie the cost and how easy they are to get? I had a look and it was a nightmare!

i have been snowed under and have been bored by England but anyway...

We are a 2 man team we can only fire if Theo and Cesc are in the side! Walcott gives us so much more width and sucks players in!

Cesc has a contract til 2014 anyway so I wouldn't worry about these morons stirring up rubbish hes ours and it will stay that way unless there is a massive bid!

That is all!

Right, as we are all aware we thumped Porto. In saying that they didn't pose any problems that we cant cope with. So what I am trying to say is that there was no real challenge.

When we had to defend corners it was easy. I think Umpa Lumpas pose more of an attacking threat from crosses that Porto. Defensively they were pretty weak. we ran all over them. We wasted a number of chances.

Sunderland are going to be a big test. The Porto match achieved nothing at all, all I can see is that we categorically should have won 8 nil. The only real good thing from that match was that we will have built confidence (especially RvP).

There are not many teams who can be slated for winning 4-0 and I hate to do it but I only do it through a positive love of the club. My expectations of Arsenal are admittedly very high but this is only because I have seen what we can achieve but not if we keep making the same mistakes!

Not to be boring and go on about it but I am still convinced that Adebayor is average, he may score goals (admittedly most are easy) but he wastes so many chances. I was excited that Wenger said that there would be changes made (there was one and it was Nasri coming back). If Bendtner was given a chance and Arsene showed he trusted him the big Dane could really make his mark.

van Persie looked pretty good against Porto although I think our Carling cup side would have done them by the same score! I dont understand why he always finds himself on the right when he cannot hit the ball with his right...he needs to have a word with ade

Ade has come out wish some rubbish about wanting to score good goals, dont care. Just want goals and lots of them.

Apparently it looks like we are going to swoop for some young gun Juve boy...Geovinco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjzDRmNJ644 he looks like quite a cool finisher but if he is whinging about money at Juve he doesnt have a chance at Arsenal!

I have got a ticket to the Sunderland match not that anyone cares but thought it was worth saying. Does anyone use the Supporters Clubs?