I woke up on Saturday morning in a reasonably good mood, started the say with a nice fry up and got ready for what was in my opinion one of the biggest days of the year. The mood slightly changed when we got to London Bridge and found out that the brilliant minds that are Transport for London had chosen the day in which two London clubs play each other in London in a big cup game, to close one of the main ways to get to the stadium (Jubilee Line), which meant we had to go the long way round.

When we finally got to Wembley Stadium, we had a little walk around like most Arsenal fans where doing, to have a look at the stadium that took so long to be built.

To be honest when we got into the ground, it looked very good, but it seemed to be missing a special feeling, which in my opinion the Millennium Stadium brought to the F.A. Cup.

But then the teams where announced and this was my reaction. ‘Are you serious, no Arshavin?’ Now, let me see if I can get this right, Guus Hiddink had already in the Daily Mail suggested that he feared Andrey. He hadn’t played on Wednesday which would meant he would have been fresh, he has in some ways revitalised the team and helped us get back on track. So the question has to be asked, what the bloody hell was Wenger thinking? But if that isn’t enough, it’s not even like we had Nasri to play in that role. He puts RVP there who in all fairness tried his best, but he isn’t a midfielder he is a striker. Also Alex Song, as an article a few weeks back pointed out, has been in brilliant form recently, so why has Wenger opted to play Diaby who has only just returned from injury?

To be honest, I did in some ways see this coming. In recent seasons Arsene has always seem to adopted a policy of playing defensively against ‘big clubs’. But when you haven’t won a trophy in roughly five years you would have thought that would have been a priority and would mean we would attack to our best standards.

But then, and this is going to sound like all I am doing is moaning, and that’s because I am, he makes the changes, and takes off possibly our two best strikers. Bringing on Arshavin was the right idea but maybe he should have taken off one of the three central midfielders (although I have heard that Van Perise had a groin injury). But then Adebayor for Bentner, why? Surely when going for an equaliser you would want as many strikers as possible, I don’t know whether this is true, but apparently he wanted to save Ade. For what? We play Liverpool this Tuesday in a game that doesn’t really matter. Fourth place is basically secured so why are we saving players for that?

After all of this moaning I am going to try and look positive, the Champions League is still available, Man U have still got the Premiership to fight, which means they cannot rest players. So we need to focus on that, we have the players to do it, so that needs to be our number one priority.