I said at the beginning of the season I didn't think we had what he takes to win the title. In most campaigns, this squad wouldn't be good enough. And then Chelsea went to shit, Utd are only grinding their way to slow increments of improvement and City have proved vulnerable despite their squad. So I started to doubt my early season assertion and think this is portably our best opportunity in a while, despite our squads failings.

I still have big doubts over Wenger's ability to manage the squad throughout the campaign and if pushed on an answer right now, I'd say no we won't win it. But I want to enjoy a season of football, especially given how much of my time I give to talking about and watching it. It would be completely shit to not have any hope at all every weekend, not able to enjoy beating Utd or beating Bayern Munich. Even if we fall flat on our face again at the end of the season I would look back on those games fondly.

All I want is for us to challenge every season, winning the title would be the icing on the cake of course but all any (well most) fans ask for is watching their team yet their hardest to win each game.

I think we've got that this season from the players, regardless of whatever level of antipathy many of us feel toward the manager. Of course, we've been here before and fallen away a few times and May is some distance away but I'm trying to judge the club on what I can see right now, rather than lean back on where I was three months ago, mostly because it's far less stressful and so far, they've proven me wrong, so I'm up for that continuing if it can.