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Pretty much. I'm for the first time havng doubts about Wengers sharpness, sounds crazy I know, but he;s let certain things fester too long...Especailly the gk thing.

On a budget!!

Arsenal are lacking many parts of the machine, it's been apparent for a while now.

Essien wishes he was as consistent.... I think that's the third or fourth game in a row where Tiote's only misplaced one pass. Incredible. One cheek Teeotee There's only one cheek Teeotee Top draw. He gives all around him more time, just by being available and in the correct positons. His anticipation of where danger may come is astounding.

This side has crossed the Rubicon with this result. Let's hope we can get a run going.

Arsenal's main issue is that they don't have a natural leader ie a Viera or Adams anymore, so when Plan A starts to go wrong there is nobody there to galvanise the side and get it fighting. Wenger is doing a lot of things wrong atm ie starting Chamak and leaving Walcot too wide.

Tiote is already a 10m def midfielder as far as I'm concerned. Better than Mikel and getting to the zone that Essien inhabits.

I love the way the rest of them have cottoned on to the fact that he's always available and never loses it. The last player we had who I was as confident of taking a ball even if marked was Rob Lee. Yup. You can see how 3 often crowd him as soon as he gets the ball, word has obvioulsy got round. The yellows are mounting mind.

It seems topical to talk about class so I can't help commenting how classless Fabregas was today - nasty, whinging and diving all day. Did anyone notice his off the ball "collision" with Barton just before the swing at Carroll that as mentioned should have seen the twat walk? Not to mention that he was utterly gash. Arsenal are only classy when they're winning. When it's squeaky bum time they're as nasty as any other side. Why in the name of god does Wenger persist with Chamakh?

Tiote is the key to everything we do now. He is the rock we have been missing since Batty. He has the confidence and the presence to lock it down. Watching him covering space and balancing and re-balancing our def posture is a real joy.

World class keeping from him today, one saves especially.

Just hold it together.

Try and hold it to half time and they will get frustrated.

My internet starting magically working when I went outside for a fag. So, should be a good game if they don't score early.

Sent.

I'm upbeat.

Internet armageddon goes off on scant informationa and a false identity. Tinternet tbh.

Wifi went down this morning and I've just managed to get it going. Omen?

This looks like it's going to be ok.

That's massive.

Phew! WW3 postponed.

Fair amount of wasted cash there if you look closely. Pav, Bentley and Giovanni at £25m are all pretty poor imo.

1. Vedran Corluka, Manchester City, £8.5m 2. Roman Pavlyuchenko, Spartak Moscow, £14m 3. Cesar Sanchez, Real Zaragoza, Undisclosed 4. David Bentley, Blackburn Rovers, £15m-17m 5. Heurelho Gomes, PSV Eindhoven, £9m 6. Giovani dos Santos, Barcelona, £4.7m 7. Luka Modric, Dinamo Zagreb, £15.8m 8. Gilberto, Hertha Berlin £1.9m 9. Alan Hutton, Glasgow Rangers, £8m 10. Jonathan Woodgate, Middlesbrough, £7.5m 11. Chris Gunter, Cardiff City, £2m 12. Kevin-Prince Boateng, Hertha Berlin, £5.2m 13. Danny Rose, Leeds United, Undisclosed 14. Younes Kaboul, Auxerre, £8.2m 15. Darren Bent, Charlton Athletic, £16.5m 16. Adel Taarabt, RC Lens, Undisclosed 17. Gareth Bale, Southampton, £5m – £10m 18. Ben Alnwick, Sunderland, Undisclosed 19. Ricardo Rocha, Benfica, £3,5m 20. Mido, AS Roma, £4m 21. Pascal Chimbonda, Wigan Athletic, £4m 22. Steed Malbranque, Fulham, £3.5m 23. Didier Zokora, St Etienne, £6.5m 24. Benoit Assou-Ekotto, RC Lens, £3.5m 25. Dimitar Berbatov, Bayer Leverkusen, £10.9m 26. Hossam Ghaly, Feyernoord, Undisclosed 27. Danny Murphy, Charlton, £2m