One game in hand, top of the league, albeit only by the smallest of margins of more goals scored, and yet to be beaten this season. It is great being an Arsenal fan nowadays but somehow you still get that weird feeling in your gut about what might happen when we do finally lose a game. Do we crumble and fall? Do we pick ourselves out of the gutter the very next day?

Consistency throughout the season? You wish that would happen but there's always the question of injuries, suspensions, losing Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue to the Africa Cup of Nations. The list goes on and on about what is and might happen.

So, will Arsenal be consistent? Have we peaked too early in the season? Are we still a player or two short of becoming a true contender in every competition?

'Remember how the press and public wrote us off before the start of the season?'


I wish I could see what Arsene Wenger sees during training sessions and in huddles with the lads. Obviously everything we read on what he says is PR stuff, which is great -  you never want to hear Wenger come out and say that the team spirit is down, or that he threw a shoe at Becks (oops, wrong team). I've always liked the fact that Wenger never comes out to criticise the team, instead he does it quietly for the sake of team morale. Unity is perhaps his greatest tool; without unity, there is no Arsenal.

No player is bigger than the club, not Thierry Henry, not Patrick Vieira, not even Cesc Fabregas should ever stand in the way of true supporters losing faith. What we have already accomplished this season is above and beyond expectations. Remember how the press and public wrote us off before the start of the season?

"Oh, you've lost Henry, you're stuffed!" "Arsenal finishing fourth? No way, Arsenal will be mid-table." "Too young, no experience and Wenger has lost the plot." "Who the hell is Eduardo?"

Suddenly everyone is quick to praise us when we're doing well. No one has owned up to say that they were wrong. Watch how quickly they bring us down when we (ever) lose our first game of the season. No prizes for predicting how many headlines will have "Arsenal crumble" as the main story.

Arsenal is like a wife, good and bad, sickness and health. I stand by this magnificent club. No club has a richer history or is better run than the Arsenal. If there is ever an indispensable person, it is Wenger.

So I say, bring on the rest of the season! Let's prove every doubter wrong.