I was at the stadium on Sunday. What is worse, I had my 7 year old son with me - this is the first time (in about 10 games) that he has seen Arsenal lose at home live. Especially difficult as three of his cousins support the enemy. Cue long conversation on the way home about "good" days and "disappointing" days - but how the disappointing days make the good days feel even better...

But let's be realistic. What are Chelsea? Organised, efficient, clinical, experienced. What are Arsenal? Technical, great football, inexperienced and inconsistent.

So why did we lose? Unfortunately, we have had the heart ripped out of the squad this season with injuries. In particular, many of our larger/stronger players were absent on Sunday (Bendtner, Diaby, Van Persie - why do you think Wenger always plays at least one of the former two when he can? Even though most of us would suggest there are better options. Djourou, also missing, is not exactly small either). In addition, several of those who did play were just back from injury and therefore nowhere near match sharp (Denilson, Nasri, Eduardo especially, Walcott, Vela). And Arshavin is off form while Traore looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights.

I acknowledge that the first two goals were the fault of several or all of Sagna, Gallas and Vermaelen, while the last was due to a reckless challenge from Fabregas coupled with appalling positioning from Almunia (he started about a yard in from his left hand post, had to move to the right and then couldn't get back). However maybe these more experienced players were under extra pressure trying to make up for their struggling colleagues?

Chelsea were just about at full strength. We were coming off a defeat. I anticipated being embarrassed - and, sadly, was not wrong.

It is very disappointing, and likely a terminal blow to our title aspirations - but I really can not see how ANY of our Premiership rivals would be in a better position in the league with equivalent injury problems.

It may be worth having a separate debate as to why we seem to suffer so much more with injuries than anyone else (Poor medical treatment? Style of play inducing late tackles? Having injury prone players?) but that is not the subject of this posting.

Does this mean that Wenger's project is a failure? No. Does this mean we need to spend loads of money we don't have? No. We need to be patient and accept that, in the current situation, we are having a bad run of form for understandable reasons. Arsenal have a long term vision which I am very confident will have a superior long term outcome. Maybe not trophies this season, but pretty certain there will be plenty of trophies over the next five years.