This week the brilliant and baffling American television drama LOST returned to our screens. And to be honest it's the only thing that was distracting me from images of Rooney and Drogba running through my mind over and over again as would normally be the case. For those who didn't watch last week’s premiere, the narrative has now been split into two (seemingly that is, you never really know what's happening on this show, or indeed with this football club) with an alternative if not exactly parallel universe being revealed.

Inevitably this brought me straight back to football and I began thinking at how this season has many parallels with the unbeaten season six years ago. Victory over Everton in the opening game, a high profile January signing (yes, Campbell counts) and triumph in the face of adversity at Anfield being just a few. The main parallel that has held very different consequences for the team has been the run of big league games back to back.

In 2003 Arsenal took ten points from Newcastle and Chelsea at home and the Mancs and Scousers away. Replacing Newcastle with their modern day equivalent Villa, and we are in danger of just taking one from a similar run of games. Writing this ahead of the Liverpool home match, I have as much idea of how we'll perform as I do as to why Desmond was on the plane.

However, when the push came to shove for a second time in that season, Arsenal faded just as they did this. Losses to Man United in the FA Cup semi-final and Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final put all treble dreams to bed and the possibility of meltdown was there for all to see. The turning point of this crisis came in... wait for it... the Liverpool home match, where Thierry scored a brilliant hat-trick to keep the unbeaten run alive. Now I'm not expecting Bendtner to do the same, that's a bit far-fetched even to a LOST fan, but I can still see this fixture again being a turning point in our season.

Season six of LOST is scheduled to run from February to May. Let's hope that Arsenal's is too.