Ed’s note - Ok, confession time. It’s been a busy time at Gooner Towers for all kinds of reasons since last summer, and posting the survey online has been one of the things to suffer as a consequence. Basically, it requires a hell of a lot of html formatting – far more than an ordinary posting. Many thanks to Gareth Bracken for actually doing the necessary work to get it online ready at the turn of the year. Since then, we’ve been waiting for a quiet day to get the ball rolling. A fortnight without any Arsenal fooball seems a good time. So yes, this is well late, and our sincere apologies for that. But hopefully, it will provide some memories of a dramatic campaign, even if an ultimately unsuccessful one. The survey was voted for by fans using either a form in the printed version of the Gooner or the online form found from this site at the end of last season. Please bear in mind that the commentary on the results (which were printed in the first Gooner of the current season!) were written last July…

Once again a big thank you to all who made the effort to vote in our annual poll. It was another disappointing season in the end (how many more can we put up with? – see below for the majority opinion on that one), but taken as a whole there was more to be happy about than at any time since 2005. Well, that’s my opinion. Let’s see what everyone else thinks.

Arsenal player of the season 2007-08
1. Cesc Fabregas - 30%
2. Gael Clichy - 25%
3. Emmanuel Adebayor - 20%
4. Bacary Sagna - 17%
5. Mathieu Flamini - 8%

After collating the votes for first, second and third places, we get the above percentages. To be honest I’m surprised it was this close. From August to November the boy Fab was truly world class. The inevitable annual tapping up from Spain is underway as I write, but that is one of the costs of having Wenger as manager: he makes players great, so they’ll always be in demand.

Most disappointing Arsenal player 2007-08
1. Emmanuel Eboue - 73%
2. William Gallas - 8%
3. Philippe Senderos - 7%

Go on, tell me you’re surprised. He must have some compromising photos of Arsène molesting a goat or something. What other explanation is there for not only his continual inclusion, but M Wenger’s supportive statements to the press? Maybe he’s fantastic in training, but it sure as hell isn’t showing on the pitch.

Most improved Arsenal player in the last 12 months
1. Flamini - 39%
2. Adebayor - 27%
3. Walcott - 24%
4. Song - 6%

I think the result is about right, but I also think Song deserves a special mention (and perhaps even a song) for having the guts to recover from the mauling we collectively gave him early on. Shame we are not going to reap the benefit of Mathieu’s improvement, due apparently to greed and a rather short memory of who made him the player he now is.

Best team performance of the season
1. AC Milan (A) - 88%
2. Spurs (A, League) - 4%
3. Slavia Prague (H) - 3%

Hardly worth asking this question. We’ll be lucky to see a handful of performances that good in the next 20 years. It’s the sort of match that makes you believe someone at Arsenal understands tactics. If they don’t it just means it was luck, and therefore we’ll be suffering plenty more 1-1s at home to the likes of Villa, Birmingham and Middlesbrough.

Most disappointing team performance of the season
1. Man Utd (A, FA Cup) - 51%
2. Spurs (A, Carling Cup) - 28%
3. Middlesbrough (A) - 12%
4. Wigan (A) - 5%

Another easy one to predict. It’s not every season we go to our main rivals and get stuffed 4-0, never mind in a manner that had ‘surrender’ and ‘damage limitation’ written all over it from the time the teams emerged from the dressing room. In any other season a 5-1 thrashing at the Lane of No Hope would have walked this category, but at least on that night there was a bit of fire in the players’ bellies, albeit mostly misdirected at each other. Purveyors of commemorative tat in N17 must not be allowed to cash in like that this season.

Best three Arsenal goals 2007-08
1. Adebayor v Spurs
2. Fabregas v Milan
3. Adebayor v Liverpool (A, CL)

Only one winner here, with close to two-thirds voting Adebayor’s swivelling volley top, and nearly everyone else selecting it in the top three. I don’t know whether it ended up winning the BBC Goal of the Season or not as I’ve given up listening to the boy Line-aker, but the bookies clearly thought something dodgy was going on when people started betting on it in large numbers. Nothing dodgy about the goal itself, but if he’d done it with his left foot I might even have started taking him seriously as a replacement for King Henry.

Best goal against Arsenal 2007-08
How is there a ‘best’ goal against Arsenal, you may ask? And many did. Those who didn’t went for: 1. Torres (Liverpool, A, CL) - 37%
2. Keita (Seville, A, CL) - 25%
3. Hargreaves (Man Utd, A, PL) - 21%

Hargreaves? All right, that’s enough of that. Move on.

How many players do you think we need to buy this summer?
Three 51%
Four 36%
Two 7%
Five + 6%

At the time of writing I don’t know what we’ve got, and even when you read this the window will still be open wider than Jodie Marsh’s legs. Anyway, this rather depends on how many get sold, or disappear to Lire-land on a free. If we get five in (I won’t say ‘buy’, as two thirds will probably be under the age where clubs are even allowed to hand money over) and eight leave, we’re still up the proverbial junction, with a squad thinner than Posh with dysentery. So I think this question is really asking how many extra we need, and let me tell you now if it’s not AT LEAST three we’ll be lucky to finish higher than last time.

Which department of the team do you think needs addressing most urgently?
Defence 65%
Midfield 26%
Goalkeeper 6%
Attack 3%

Well I’m sorry (no I’m not) but only three per cent got this right! Considering how many gilt-edged chances we make – which is down to the whole team, by the way – the number that get converted is smaller than the average IQ of Girls Aloud. We need attackers! Non-injury prone, two-footed ones.