The problem I've had lately is that I still see Arsenal as a genuine title contender year in year out. Ever since the beginning of season 1998/99 really. The double year preceding didn't count as going into that year there was almost no sign of that on the horizon.
So this year began and even though all the signs from the 4 campaigns previously said otherwise I still had a reaction to every defeat or bad performance in the most negative way as if it was really going to affect our chances of topping the league come end game time in May.
This may have led to an overly harsh opinion on many of the players, the manager, the club as a whole.
As of the end of 90 minutes today it's over. We are a team challenging for, at best 3rd or 4th. And doing well, especially this year, to be making it.
So colour me Rose from now on. I'll not be critiquing the performances of the players brought in as they are not going to win the major trophies. I will merit them and judge them on the games against the mid to lower table sides. Against their equals if you will.
As long as we mount a challenge towards the upper echelons of the table, even as good as top 2 for half a season, I'm going to be happy. It's not like Arsenal have never been pushing mid table or higher before. And in them days the days of school, where bragging rights were everything, I managed to get through ok as an Arsenal fan.
So goodbye League title aspirations. But still, hello Arsenal.
It's not like I'd leave you high and dry.
And this has absolutely what to do with todays match?
That was my assesment on the season as a whole.
If you want to be a bad ass, rejoin the police Spudmasher.
That's the most I've laughed all week. 
A better keeper would have been positioned better and would have had stronger hands to push it over the bar when it was crossed in. Watch his positioning on 2 crosses that went across our 6 yd box before they ever scored - he has zero concept of positioning, angles or controlling his area 
We have an absolutely shite keeper, a 35 year old back up at centre back, more wilting flowers in our midfield than there are in the dutch poppy fields and we have a 5ft 6" centre forward with our only redemption coming from a danish beanpole who thinks he is pele but his goals stats suggest his is more like that of a striker for a mid to bottom table club - oh and I havent forgotten usain bolt, our english wonderboy ( 
