Earlier in the season Arsene Wenger spoke of a hurricane coming through the financial world and he was right. It has hit very, very hard but let me tell him that another hurricane is coming, that for him and thousands of Gooners is even more dangerous. As AW tries to piece together what is left of our broken team, if he stops and listens hard he will hear this storm brewing in the north west of the country and it is due to hit our demoralized team some time early Saturday afternoon.

I fear that at OT on Saturday we could go down by five or six, and if certain permutations are put together it could even be more. The inclusion of Fabianski, Silvestre and Diaby in the same team could see the kind of beating handed out on par with the 6-1 defeat in February 2001 or more seriously the 6-1 hammering we took at the hands of Leeds Utd at the end of the 1973 season.

That hammering by Leeds ended the ‘71 double winning team as a force and saw Arsenal nearly relegated in seasons ‘74 and ‘75 finishing 16th & 17th respectively.

Ferguson's new "detente" with Wenger is due purely because we are no longer a threat to his team. However that has not stopped him prodding certain players in his squad to get them a little more angry than normal to coincide with the Mancs’ title winning match on Saturday, I'll take a 3-0 defeat now and any kind of a draw the following week against that "pass and move" team Stoke City.

Glass half empty? No, the glass got smashed a long time ago probably when we never tried to sign a goalkeeper or a centre back etc, as a paid up member of the "told you so" brigade, I will not go on about the reasons why the last few weeks have been like watching the same car crash over and over again but there’s one thing I do know about our team.

What Wenger has achieved with this squad is nothing short of a miracle. No other manager in the Premier League could have taken this collection of players to a Champions League spot. Many would not have even tried, certainly Ferguson and Hiddink would have laughed and demanded millions to put the squad right and give it a better balance. The best of the rest would have been lucky to reach a Europa Cup place.

Just one problem with Wenger's great achievement. We are Arsenal not West Brom, we were "Invincible", now we are just the best team outside "the top three" - well for this season anyway.