Wallet. Check. Oyster Card. Check. Season Ticket. Check. Anti-Depressants. Check. And it's off to The Arsenal we go!

Rather than discuss familiar angles being addressed by fellow Gooners and, one can but hope, some highly-paid employees of the Club, I'll take a different tack - just for a change. But first let me get you smiling, or at least shaking your head. As an Arsenal shareholder, I'm fortunate that, as from last May, I now have the chance to attend an annual Q&A with Arsene. Membership has its privileges, as an old advert once said. Last week I received official email confirmation of this Thursday's event and the note continued: "This confirmation must be printed out and brought as proof of entry. Admittance will not be permitted without this document".

Two inches later - well, perhaps just over one, but I am a bloke - the email continues: "Think before you print this out. Do you really need a hard copy of this email?" Classic Arsenal. Surely an own goal to rival the joint venture between Kolo and the hapless Fabianski on Sunday.

I ranted recently about Arsenal's lack of concentration and over-celebration of two important goals. Both were scored at Anfield; the first a tap-in by one of the world's top strikers - in his own mind, anyway - in the Champions League quarter final last season following Theo's amazing run. Barely a minute later the referee had the excuse he needed to give Liverpool the latest in a long line of highly dubious penalties. This season Arshavin scored to make it 4-3 at the end of the 90th minute. I desperately wanted our players to concentrate but it took the referee a full minute to restart the game. Again we'd over-celebrated, lost concentration and soon conceded. Madness. To borrow from a pop song from my youth: you never [count your money] celebrate when you're [at the table] on the pitch / there'll be time enough for [counting] celebrating, when the [dealing's done] game is won. (Ed’s note – that’s The Gambler, by Kenny Rogers, for our younger readers!)

Contrast this amateurish approach with the aftermath of Manchester United's wonderful - it has to be admitted - third goal last Tuesday. Watch the incident again, painful though it is. Ronaldo, the scorer, and several other United players made for their technical area to celebrate. Ferguson and his staff motioned to get back over the halfway line. And this with their opponents needing five - yes, FIVE - goals. What a difference in approach.

If I summon the courage, I'll mention this little lot to Arsene on Thursday, although how to turn a mini speech into a question I'm not quite sure.