Chavs have been doing it to us for years. Running at our defenders, lumping the ball over the top and letting a powerful striker barge it into the net. Now we have a player who could have done that, but we religiously keep the ball on the deck and play it short. Tidy little patterns until we lose the ball on the 93rd pass, never shoot, always look for the next pass, move it left, move it right, trying to drag a tightly disciplined defence around that simply refuses to be dragged around. We probably could have played another 90 minutes of pointless tippy tappy and not had a strike on goal. When Wenger sees a stats like that, no shots on target, it will only encourage him to work harder on the 93rd pass.

And as for running at defenders, it's Ozil and Cazorla who should be doing that, not Jack. So he plays Jack as the focal point through the middle to guarantee another route to losing the ball. Play those fullbacks high so we are desperately exposed when pass #93 goes astray - recipe for disaster, the same half baked lasagne week in, week out. We usually get away with it against crappy teams, although this season even that's not happening. Against the big teams they just laugh at our naivety and tuck in for the 3 points.

How many times did we see Ivanovic and Azpilicueta charging up the pitch yesterday? How many times did Terry bomb through the middle like Kos was doing? Merts was the only defender who was disciplined - and he's the one getting most of the stick from the media and fans He's the grown-up in our defence and he needs to have more responsibility. Instead it's Arteta who is the captain - a guy being played out of position every match, a midget asked to be a destroyer. Ludicrous.

What about the subs? When the gameplan is yielding nothing what does Wenger do? He takes off the hardest runners, the guys keeping things together despite the awful tactics. Then he puts another victim into the same system, like for like. The only time he changes things for real is when injuries force us or he's desperately rolling the dice after the game is lost. What was the Podolski sub about yesterday, when we had already lost? Ridiculous. Why the hell bring Cazorla off? It beggars belief. Was he injured? That would be the only possible excuse.

Where's Walcott going to fit into this? More tippy tappy and backward play on the right wing? Or sprinting into space beyond the defender from balls played by our skilful but abused midfield? I think we know the answer.

We are relying on individual moments of excellence to pull our arses out of the tactical fire. Even with all our possession, possession the chavs were happy to concede yesterday, it all breaks down in the final third unless 2 or 3 individuals execute some training ground stunt with the required absolute precision. Other teams just find the space and run. The have other runners pulling defenders. They get in behind and lump the cross in. They play it ugly if it needs to be ugly. When was our last pub scramble in an opposition box where we eventually lashed the ball home? We don't do that, it's beneath us.

We have excellent players and a manager who doesn't have the foggiest how to use them. Or he probably does but for some reason thinks there's an even better way. A way that hasn't worked for years but you know, any day now it will work. Just keep doing the same thing over and over again and eventually it will work - or you will be carted away in a straitjacket, one or the other.