Lucky, lucky Arsenal

Apparently, Chelsea fans are "distasteful", after chanting "Rapist" at Rapist Van Pussy yesterday. I think the girl he raped, would maintain that he was more distasteful than we...

Seldom do we see matches at the Bridge these days where a team comes and gets as much luck as Arsenal did. We hit the woodwork three times, and had at least another 4 shots which would have been scored 9 times out of 10 on any other day.

In the end, it took an Essien wonder strike from 30 yards to keep the point. The introduction of Robben saw the game change, and from then on, we destroyed them. They couldn't deal with threat down their right side, and had we started with the wingers, and not with the diamond, we'd certainly have collected all three points. It is hard to argue with a performance though, which could have yielded 4 or 5 goals on any other day.

I have to say though, I was disappointed. We read every day that Arsenal play "beautiful", "easy on the eye", stunning football, as if played by the football gods themselves. I was expecting a feast, a footballing lesson from the masters. To be shown how it really should be done. Alas - it is all a myth. They played well, in one system, for one season. That was in the past. History. And it isn't coming back any time soon, judging their weekend performance.

So it is 8 points behind the Mancs, with a game in hand, this week against Newcastle. Certainly not unassailable, with well over half a season to go. It will still be them with Fergie's famous "squeaky bum" come the run-in.

The great thing about yesterday though, is that it left every spectator in no uncertain terms as to which team is the mightier. The Gooners celebrated a draw like they had won the European Cup. Every Arsenal supporter knew they were lucky to come and get a point, and that is the reality these days. One team in London.