Match Reaction Arsenal 1-1 Shadow Dwellers

[Letters]

Its why unlike you & others, I don't get excited by beating Man Utd 3-0 because I know whats coming next.

I didn't get 'excited', but I was pleased we won a game which I know that a couple of years ago we'd have lost.
A team we've got a poor record against who are a top 4 rival and who were 3 points above us when we played them.
Would we have won that a couple of a few years back? Would we balls.

So things like that - and it's not the only one - are tentative signs that we might finally properly challenge this year. Whether we will remains to be seen but we're level with City right now, I think we'd have all taken that at the start of the season. While we stay in touch I'm not going to hand in the towel. If you want to then go nuts.

[Dein-machine]

I didn't get 'excited', but I was pleased we won a game which I know that a couple of years ago we'd have lost.
A team we've got a poor record against who are a top 4 rival and who were 3 points above us when we played them.
Would we have won that a couple of a few years back? Would we balls.

So things like that - and it's not the only one - are tentative signs that we might finally properly challenge this year. Whether we will remains to be seen but we're level with City right now, I think we'd have all taken that at the start of the season. While we stay in touch I'm not going to hand in the towel. If you want to then go nuts.

Don't understand why you look at individual games so much. So we beat Utd, didn't do that very much a few years back. - We got outplayed by the Spuds yesterday & couldn't beat them in 2 league games last year. a few years back we were beating them every game - don't understand where your logic is coming from. We are the only team Chelsea have spanked this year, took our worst ever European beating last week - you are so single minded when it comes to these things its actually funny.

[Letters]

Don't understand why you look at individual games so much.

I hope you appreciate the irony of you then going on to talk about some individual games...

And I don't, but there are some individual games which I know we wouldn't have won a few years back, we're starting to get results in them now. If it's a one off then yeah, so what, but I've given a few examples - enough to have some optimism that we're getting better in that regard.

And Chelsea didn't spank us It was 0-0 till Mike Dean stuck his oar in and handed them the points, even then it was only 1-0 when Dean sent off the 2nd player, just to make sure they got the points. Even at the time people were pretty much unanimous in agreeing that we can't conclude anything about our chances from that result.

End of the day we're 12 games in and we're level at the top, that's the only thing that matters right now. I think we'd all have taken that at the start of the season.