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Adebayor is the first player ever to score a hat trick twice against the same team in the same season. Nothing succeeds like success and this player is now on his way to greatness.

Now Shytetanta, full of shyte declared that Arsenal's biggest problem was trying to walk the ball into the net. No it wasn't, it was shyte shooting of which not so reliant Robin I think of first. In the early stages of the game he had a perfect ball with only the keeper to beat, I was certain he would score. Just the chance a rusty recovering player needed to get his confidence back, but he skied it.

More Shytetanta, "that's why he hasn't scored since October" they declared. Well if we discount his penalty against Bolton, I still don't see how that explains his not scoring in open play since October. Couldn't the fact he has been injured for 5 months have something to do with it? Indeed when he did finally shift the rust, and score a very good goal his injury reasserted itself, and he went off at half time. Perhaps he was missing Rosicky. More shyte was the comment, "Toure's foul on Babel", what foul was that you gormless assholes?

When RvP missed his open goal the golden rule came into play and Derby scored almost immediately afterwards. Which brings us back to another concern far more important than "trying to walk ball in" clichés; and that is that Arsenal fail to concentrate whenever they take the lead. That is a cliché Wenger will have to work on. Two really soft goals, the first seemed to be a muddle between Fabianski and the defence. I am yet to be convinced he is ready for number two just yet.

The second was "that goal", you know the one, and I have mentioned it here a hundred times before It's the one where Arsenal push up too far and mistime the offside trap, and any Muppet can score, and they did. Earnshaw doubled his season's tally and Arsenal's defence should be fined for making us endure the worst goal celebration since Robbie Keane.

However enough analysis, it might "only have been Derby" but for twenty minutes they were the more effective team, and I was thinking oh my God we are shyte, when Bendtner scored against the run of play. However Derby's equaliser only served to spur Arsenal on to step up a gear and from then on in the Gunners dominated, apart from that second lapse.

The Gunners played some wonderful football, and a dozen would not have flattered them, but most of the forwards lacked the cutting edge of Ade. Walcott's goal was sublime, as was van Persie's. Eboue is the only midfielder with a worst shooting technique than Hleb. But it was easy on the eye, and eight goals in a little to play for match on a sodden Monday night is little cause for complaint.

Walcott gets the idea

Oh! I forgot Fabregas, he was sublime, fat bruisers were trying to clobber him but they couldn't find his legs. His passing was magical, he was the puppet master pulling all the strings, on any other night he would have been man of the match, but it has to go to the man with the match ball.

Arsenal have now won third place, so we are better than Liverpool whatever their cup exploits. The league table doesn't lie.

 Arsenal now have 9 points more than last season, and Adebayor has 24 goals, with 30 in all competitions. Who predicted that with the departure of Henry?

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