I have just read your latest editorial with incredulity!!! It has become increasingly obvious over the past year that you want Le Boss to go and replaced with… I think your suggestion was Capello (oh dear!) but your one eyed editorials have become so ridiculous that I would laugh if I didn’t realise that you were actually being serious! (Ed’s note – If I wanted Wenger to go I would have said so. I did put forward the idea that at times the players might be better motivated by Capello but I have not explicitly called for the manager to go, just for the decision to go solely with youth to be revised)

The run of five wins and one draw which has put us back in the title race has been largely ignored whilst you appeared to relish picking apart the defeat by the Chavs. The excellent victory over Villa who had recently won at Old Trafford as well as having beaten the Chavs and Liverpool was overshadowed by your criticism of bringing Fabregas on even though he won us the game and in the process kept up the momentum about which you continually emphasis the importance! (Ed’s note – I’ve read my piece on the Villa game and I’m at a loss to understand where you got the idea I criticized the entrance of Fabregas. Maybe you’re confusing me with another writer?)

You then wrote an editorial before the West Ham game criticising Arsene’s team selection before he’d even picked the team and then skilfully covered yourself so that you were right come win, lose or draw! ‘Even if the team get through (as is possible given the Hammers seem equally keen to exit the competition for reasons of their own) there will come a time when the policy of handicapping the side bears its inevitable rotten fruit.’

But now you have outstripped your previous efforts by blaming le boss for calling off the Bolton home game late (Ed’s note – speculating he might have had an influence on the decision to wait as late as possible before the game was called off, inconveniencing a good number of supporters). A weather forecast is exactly that, a forecast not a prediction. It was absolutely right that Arsenal wait until a reasonable time before the match (almost four hours) before announcing postponement as they had stated at lunchtime that if conditions didn’t worsen then the game should continue. No, we don’t want a fixture pile up and yes it would have been good to get the game out the way but the chances are it will be played within the next few weeks anyway as neither side has League or FA Cup commitments.

Given the prospect of two vital league games in the following six days, a depressingly lengthening injury list, the departure of Song and Eboue to Africa and that run of games at the end of the month my only issue with the West Ham team selection was that both Gallas and Vermaelen played as they have appeared in every important match this season. Nasri and Diaby both came off the bench to increase the momentum and Arsenal duly won the game, with two assists from Vela who you condemned as having a bad game. With the run of games which follows the 4th round I will be more than happy should he field a similar team and in addition how on earth are players like Ramsey, Wilshere, Gibbs, Vela et al supposed to gain experience if they never play.

Though I was and still am baffled why Arshavin didn’t start against the Chavs what I am sure of is that Wenger did not do so just to make a point and I think after what he has achieved for our club he deserves far more respect than such a ludicrous accusation. (Ed’s note – I referenced Myles Palmer’s opinion on this because I am still totally bemused by the decision but hoped it was not the case.) In the past I have often been reassured by the measured tone of the editorial but it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between your column and the ramblings of people like the Highbury Spy. Before the home match against Stoke Radio 5 Live asked a number of supporters if ‘Arsene still knows’ following the defeat to the Chavs. Given our infamously fickle home support which sees no problem with booing its own I feared the worst but to a man and woman they backed le boss. I think it’s time the Gooner did the same.