Back to the wobble - can Gunners keep focus?

If the thought of stretching our lead to 8 points isn't enough to fire our boys up to a win then I don't know what is.

This is being described as a test for us because we did not win on Wednesday.

How many "big tests" have we had this season?

We started the season with win after win but obviously that meant nothing as we had played no-one as Seville & Spuds (away) didn't count. So Liverpool away was the first big test. Only drew 1-1, but played them off the park so that one was passed.

ManU at home would sort us out they said. Wrong.

O'Neill's Villa then. Perhaps not.

How would they recover from losing against Boro? Here we go, Chelsea next game. They'll crumble now. I think not.

Big test on Boxing day against a big, strong Portsmouth team down there. Didn't play well but comfortable 0-0, should have won it. Poor result many said. But have Chavs, Mancs & Liverpool won down there this season? No.

Then Everton away. They're 'on fire' are Everton. Arsenal can't play against tough teams from up North, especially when it's cold. That'll be 4-1 then.

Here it comes then. Arsenal will suffer badly from the ANC and especially after only drawing at home to Birmingham. Just watch ManU run away with it now.

Now look at that, Arsenal lost badly at Tottenham. It's all gone t*ts up for Arsenal now.

ManU Champions elect, no problem.

So here we are 5 points clear after ManU crumble amid a couple of ridiculous excuses while their manager can't bring himself to talk to anyone.

Yet we lose badly to ManU in the FA Cup because we only pick 4 first teamers, 2 of whom aren't 100%, because our manager allowed our players to consciously or sub-consciously dismiss the FA Cup and suddenly we are in crisis (again) having to face the World & European Champions.

We drew 0-0 having outplayed Milan and unlucky not to be 2-0 up. ManU play sh*te and scrape a lucky 1-1 draw in Lyon yet are the ones with the momentum according to many.

And according to Ray Wilkins amongst others even Chelsea have a better chance than us of winning the league as our players will crumble as they are not winners.

Look at the League table Ray. What team has had to pass all those tests, and has? Which team has only lost once?

All these "experts" are hoping it's just a bad dream.

Its worse than all those SATs at school. The most tested team in history, but will still need to win.
Man U lose its a bad day at office.
Arsenal lose its implosion.
Arsenal draw it is a crisis.

How many prem games have we lost? One - must keep on testing because we havent played any hard games yet.

The logic behind it is Padre, that even when ManU lose they'll win, because they are winners.

So the more they lose, the better chance they have of winning the League.

And the more we win, the more likely we are to lose the League.

It's obvious.

hopefully adebayor will score a hattrick tomorrow at the place he got his debut goal

--------------almunia---------

sagna-------gallas-------senderos-----clichy

walcott--------cesc------flamini------hleb

--------------adebayor---eduardo

and did you guys read matt le tissier's preview on this game? still thinks senderos is not good enough

what does everyone want him to do? score goals? we have only conceded 1 goal since he replaced toure and when he didnt play we conceded 4 goals against manutd

He does score goals very good against Blackburn

Once you get a reputation you can't shake it off.

Senderos has a couple of shakey games against Drogba at the age of 20 or so and no matter what he had done before and has done since, he "is an accident waiting to happen".

Ferdinand, however, can play as badly as he likes and people still call him world class, despite having never done anything that would put him remotely in that category in the first place or since.

Swiss has got the right attitude. He just gets on with it.

my favorite on ferdinand is in the Man u V Liverpool game. Torres tried to knock the ball past him and pace him but ferdinand managed to get in front of him and use his heavy @#$%& to let the ball roll out for a goal kick. The ''experts'' in the sky studio replayed that about 6 times and consistently talked about his super normal ability as a defender and how he is one of the best defenders of the world. Simply because pushed torres of the ball. I mean the situation is just ridiculous. Defenders such Puyol, Nesta, Cordoba, MALDINI, Thuram and Ayala put ferdinand to absolute shame. on his absolute best he is a decent strong CB....full stop

i got used to that.

I no longer get annoyed.

Warning: Supporting Arsenal is not for the faint at heart... It requires hard balls...

Agreed red_n_white.

Lets hope Arsenal win and go 11 points clear of Ray Wilkins darlings Chel$ea and see what he has to say about that.

Arsenal must give the brum game 100%, if they do not and we drop points then our critics may have a point, cos if the team can not see how important this game is then it is hard to see how we will remain ahead of the chasing duo

from now on every game is important. every single game. What game can we afford to lose? next FA cup game? for both of us, next league game? Next CL game? Crucial, most important, biggest test...they'll keep coming, week in week out. Enjoy.

here comes the big wobble