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The penny has finally dropped – they came to see the Gunners!
RAY Parlour once summed up what we all think about football when he poetically described the sport as “the beautiful game”.
Yet while football sure is beautiful – and we are living in a time when anybody can be England captain, its Theo’s turn next – the teams who play the most beautiful, elaborate football don’t always win. 
It turns out that while Arsenal have played the best-looking football, hoofing it up to someone who is big would have worked just as well.
Chelsea dismantling Arsenal’s passing game with shameless long-ballery on Sunday was a revelation. It was like that penny-drop moment when you work out that those protracted algebra equations and Pythagoras theories they taught you in school maths classes have no relevance in modern life, however fancy they looked on the chalkboard.
No surprise then that tickets for Chelsea’s home matches against Wigan and Middlesboro are on general sale. This in effect means that anybody who wants one can have one, no need for membership.
Yeah, it sounds romantic and like the old days, strolling up to a ground at 2.50pm on Saturday and buying a ticket.
But in reality, it just shows that Sunday’s sellout – full of fickle fans who left The Shed half-empty in the 1980s and 1990s – equated to only coming to see the Arsenal.
AFTER the 4-4 draw against Chelsea and yet another night of consummate entertainment at White Hart Lane last week a Gooner friend of mine thought it would be funny to thank me for doing them a favour, same as we did when we played United off the park a couple of weeks back. 
Unfortunately for him the real joke is that no matter how many points we, or any other team, take off Arsenal’s title rivals, they still just aren’t good enough to win the league.
You can pretend it’s down to United having one superplayer if you want. But what the bulk of the United team – and Chelsea’s I might add – has that Arsenal’s doesn’t is the experience to handle the extreme pressure of a Premiership title run in.
Just look what it’s done to poor old William Gallas. The man is falling apart before our very eyes and he is the only one who actually has been there before.
Evidently the rest of the Arsenal kids are finding it just as tough, and have managed to turn a five-point lead into a six-point deficit in nigh on two months of boring, lacklustre, and most importantly, winless Premiership football.
Well done. Now try taking a break, chill out, stop stressing about it and accept that you’re not going to win anything again this season.
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