1. AW press conference 5 Feb, regarding no signings in Jan: "I know that in England all the problems are always sorted out by buying players. I don't believe that."
Arsenal's first team squad has 30 players according to the website. 29 of them were bought by Wenger. Apart from Wilshere (Gibbs joined from the Wombles at 18) they are all players bought/signed by him. Virtually this entire team and squad of players has been bought, signed, brought, trained, coached, developed, managed, motivated, controlled and educated by Wenger. He has and has had that power. The results, good or bad, are therefore more or less solely attributable to him. Like Rafa Benitez - if you want total control and power over all football decisions (and more) at your football club, you have to take responsibility for everything, including when it goes wrong. But the Board and CEO also have to take responsibility for allowing such an unchecked concentration of power to develop.

2. One of the top players (I know a friend of his) has questioned Arsenal's medical and dietary set-up, implying that it might have been advanced in England 10 years ago but not now. Personally I think that our annual vast number of injuries cannot be only bad luck / co-incidence, and I also think there may be a problem with the warm-ups.

3. Arsene Wenger said last month that he was too busy with all the injuries to focus properly on signing new players in January. If true, then this is the ultimate proof that he has too much power and needs to delegate and get other competent people to help him (management is a team game as well). If he is not interested in teaching defence then why stop someone else doing it? (Don Howe? Martin Keown? Tony Adams? Steve Bould? George Graham? etc) If he's not interested in tactics then why stop someone else doing it? If he's not interested in improving how our players communicate with each other on-field then why stop someone else doing it? If he’s too busy to sign players then why stop someone else doing it? For him and for us. He could then just turn a blind eye, let someone else do such "dirty work" - but know that it would be necessary for the good of the team. Just like David Dein used to do the dirty work on transfers, like dealing with agents, stuff that Wenger would rather not know about. Why not now also with the team?

4. Originally, I was against the Campbell signing on the basis that
(a) signing a 35 year-old contradicted everything AW says about killing the opportunities of younger players
(b) it appeared less logical than signing a true Arsenal legend like Vieira who could have sparked something and brought some winning mentality - and a dressing-room link to the most recent winning past
(c) our apparent current philosophy that we have to sign better than we have (given that he also says that so many clubs are in financial difficulty across Europe - and therefore need cash - it seems strange that he couldn't have signed anyone better than Sylvestre, with an assumed £20-40m transfer budget)
(d) he played for Sperz (I was also against his original signing - would/could you ever love and/or trust a man who left Sperz for Arsenal or vice versa? what does that say about his morals?)
HOWEVER, having said all that, watching the Stoke game I was glad he was there – as Stoke chucked long balls he just won the headers and that made me nostalgic. Vermaelen is relatively good in the air for his height (and great for all the other things he brings) but Arsenal are still vulnerable in the air all over the pitch and especially at centre back (where it's most crucial). English football is played to a large degree in the air and a centre back who can just win headers - even if he can't do anything else - reduces pressure on the whole team and has done 50% of the job of a centre back in England (and apart from kicking people, Willie Young literally couldn't do anything else!) This crap about small centre backs like Ayala and Cannavaro being successful is fine but can you name any such small centre back ever winning any title IN ENGLAND?? Des Walker was the only top small centre back in England I can think of and he won little and had to go abroad. Gallas at Chelsea maybe (but alongside an aerially dominant player like Terry).

5. Not unrelated to the previous subject, looking at our players (especially our keeper and defenders) not communicating with each other - season after season - I wondered whether it might be possible to communicate some simple tips to our keeper/defence as fan mail (since the coaching staff will not - or are not allowed to - do it). By the way my only coaching experience is a kids’ team, I have no badges, yet I think implementing the following eight simple schoolboy/Sunday league defending tips would save Arsenal at least five goals a season. By the way, this is deadly serious - not facetious.

Tip 1 = If you are going to make a clearance/challenge/interception/header, or come for a cross – then call your own name (your own name - so language is not relevant). That way your team-mate will leave it to you and you won't bump into each other or both leave it. Kids’ teams and Sunday League teams do this but Arsenal FC do not.

Tip 2 = If an opposing player is approaching one of your team-mates and your team-mate seems unaware, then loudly shout “MAN ON”. This will allow your team-mate to take appropriate action and he won’t simply be dispossessed - and then p***ed off that no-one told him someone was coming. Kids’ teams and Sunday League teams do this but Arsenal FC do not.

Tip 3 = If a ball is played into the space between defence and keeper - if you (like Gallas or Vermaelen) are a good judge of differentiation but your keeper (Almunia) is not, then do him a favour by loudly shouting "KEEPER" when he should come and claim it (so he doesn't stay frozen on his line like a rabbit in the headlights). Kids’ teams and Sunday League teams do this but Arsenal FC do not.

Tip 4 = Look at the opponents in advance of matches and consider their weak points and then give a short matchday briefing to the relevant player. Are any opposing players carrying injuries or just back from injury? Are they weaker on one foot rather than the other? Etc. Like most football fans, we Gooners naively believe that this stuff is automatically done at a professional club like Arsenal FC - are you sure?

Tip 5 = If your football philosophy means that you (personally) don't believe that you need to adjust, or even have, tactics then let someone else intervene and make suggestions (e.g. during the FA Cup semi last season when Theo was getting no change out of Ashley Cole, why not switch him against the slow and suffering Ivanovic? No, he and his manager just stuck to the same wing. No imagination, no intelligence.) Kids’ teams and Sunday League team do this but Arsenal FC do not.

Tip 6 = If you are a full back and there is a player in front of you who might cross the ball – then get a bit tighter so you are more likely to block the cross, and so the cross won’t make it into the box (thus not putting pressure on one of your team's main weak points, namely defending high or crossed balls). Man Utd and Chelsea full backs stop crosses at source. Arsenal's full backs back off and stop many fewer. Not because they can't. But, I guess, because they've just never been told.

Tip 7 = If you are a full back then, when it comes to offside, you take your position (along the line) from the centre backs (not vice versa). This is not intellectual or secret tactics only for those in the know, Lee Dixon has said this on national TV. It is one small tip which can help a professional player to improve their own ability, career and happiness - why is no-one giving them this tip? Look at a very good, but still unfulfilled and under-developed, full-back like Sagna. In the Champions League semi at home to Man U last year (and in other games) he stands, looking along the line, five yards behind the rest of the line (playing the Man Utd forwards onside)!!! He does not understand the offside rule in practice - someone just needs to explain it to him and what it means for him in a game situation. Then do a bit of work on it in training with some simulation exercises. It's called coaching. This drives me nuts. It's so unprofessional. It really wouldn't cost anything. (Clichy's positional sense is best left for another day...)

Tip 8 = When defending a corner put two of your shorter players on each post to help the goalkeeper. The player should stay on the post and not wander off.

I know there are many great things about Arsenal, but every week schoolchildren and hungover Sunday league players across the country manage to do all these eight simple things more effectively than Arsenal's first XI. And doing any of these things would not compromise Arsenal’s playing style and philosophy at all. It's embarrassing. And so frustrating. It would cost nothing.

6. If Wenger suddenly walked out or had to leave Arsenal tomorrow, for some reason, or, God forbid, keeled over with a heart attack, who would replace him? Do you think the board/Gazidis have a shortlist? (not the famous non-existent "Plan B" that PHW referred to...) Do you think they have a confidential or informal verbal arrangement with someone? Do you think any of them could name a shortlist of promising candidates?

7. Has anyone compared how Wenger’s reign at Monaco came to an end with how things are going at Arsenal? (great first season, good middle period, then gradual decline) Or how other managers with total control went into gradual decline?

8. Do you think Wenger was consulted about Gazidis' appointment? Or do you think he approved Gazidis’ appointment?

9. The saddest thing of all this is that he is also possibly going to ruin his own legacy – he is certainly using up the large reservoir of goodwill. The man is an Arsenal legend – he should not destroy his legacy, and what he has done for the club.