There seems to be a lot of negativity flying around the Arsenal sites since our 3rd Prem double point drop. I must say I was expecting much better from the team playing a pretty average Black Cats side missing star players. On the bright side Villa and Everton both drew, even Liverpool drew but the chances of catching them are pretty limited. I often see the Ebel ads for predicting the earliest goal of the month and have thought one month we won't score, it won't happen.

It is becoming more of a talking point whether Arsenal make it into the Champs League and I am not worrying about it until we have 10 games left this season. As fans bitch and moan about us being financially ruined not qualifying for the CL i begin to think about their thinking method. Our board who have justified building the second biggest club ground in the league will have obviously accounted for a dip in form at some point and us not qualifying for the CL will not ruin us and cause us to drown in a pool of debt.

My next point is a bit odd because I am going to compare us to Spurs, this is something they spend their lives doing with us. We have NEVER lost! If you look at the amount of money they have spent over the last 5 years signing (and resigning) players only to play in the UEFA cups first couple of rounds, they can somehow make the figures work so it won't be a problem for a financially responsible club.

Remember what built Jose's reputation? Winning the UEFA Cup and then the CL with Porto. It could be done by Arsene.

Missing a CL place will mean our whole squad will vanish. Obviously this is an almost direct quote from the mirror or some other fictional news source. I would say that any player who is willing to leave after missing the CL for one season because of their own poor form deserves to go. There are only a couple of players at the moment who deserve their shirt.

Our Back 4 have obviously been sound and Almunia has been rock solid as usual. People ask why we are not scoring goals and I think the base of the problem can be found in midfield. Although Song and Denilson have both been sound they are not exactly the key to unlocking defences. Add to that Clichy has stopped making as many forward runs and Bendtner starting.

Wenger refuses to admit that there is a problem. I think this reflects really badly on him for not taking responsibility. A conversation with Wenger seems like it would go like this :-

"you aren't beating teams Arsene?"
"Oh they are defending too much"
"do they do the same against Man U?"
"Yes"
"do United win?"
"yeah"
"why aren't you then Arsene?"
"dunno"


Some cretin a while ago had a go at me saying "you don't remember the days when we had the likes of Steve Marrow and we were bad" it has eaten away at me ever since and really annoyed me so to him any other fans who lack the ambition to criticise the squad I say to you "you don't remember the 2 doubles, an UNBEATEN SEASON, countless FA Cups and a CL final in the last 10 years. Why aren't we doing that now?"

We have had a fair number of injuries this season but in saying that who has been brought into the first team and actually shown they deserve to be there? Or at least not looked like they were a reserve? I would say Djourourou was the only one.

I just think that Arsenal have lost their soul and have no real fight. Sad times.

Oh and UEFA isn't nailed on the way they have been playing. Bendtner mate, you might want to turn your talk into action because no one likes people who are all chat.