There is no shame in losing to Man Utd or Chelsea, as most teams do, but the disappointing fact is that we have forgotten how to beat them when it matters.

There is talk about our being too young, too small and wanting want to win by playing the beautiful game etc, but the bottom line is we are not good enough – even in a very ordinary Premiership season.

It is noble of Wenger to try and win the Premiership playing ‘his way’, but what we have seen these last couple of weeks shows us all that this won’t happen. I feel it is time for Wenger to take a good look at himself and what direction he is taking the club. It has been proved that to be successful you have to spend money (lots of it!), whether you think it is right or wrong.

Would Almunia, Clichy, Denilson, Song, Eduardo, Vela, Walcott and Bentdner get into any other top team... I think not. I added Song because although he has had a very good season (remember Flamini!) is he really the answer? His improvement has only been noticed because of the very average years before.

Van Persie who is one of our only world-class players is out for the season, and we replace him and his goals with a world class Russian playing out of position.

We are led to believe that Wenger has money to spend, but chooses not to. This penny-pinching mentality is getting rather embarrassing. We will not buy Bordeaux’s Chamakh now for a few million, but we will wait to get him on a free this summer. Who knows, if we had signed him on Jan 1st, he might have scored the goals to win us the Premiership, the investment would have been justified and the knock-on revenue would have paid for his transfer. Same with Smalling, but he signs Sol!

What is the point of having promising players like Wilshere and Simpson out on loan, when they are needed in the first team squad (we are a striker light and Wilshere can do no worse than Walcott). It just does not make sense.

I feel that Wenger thinks that opposing teams and fans must look at us in awe of the wonderful football we play, to the extent that when we score our opponents should celebrate with us and all rise to sing an Arsenal song!

Martin O’Neill is a top manager and his job is to win matches for Villa, so to disrespect him like he did for being a ‘long ball team’ is outrageous. Ditto with refusing to shake Mark Hughes’ hand. There seems to be a trend, don’t win, sulk, make excuses and disrespect our opponents.

I think Mr Wenger should get back to basics and do the things that made Arsenal and him successful. To have an entirely foreign spine to the team does not work.

Let’s be honest, our captain deserves better, and when he heads off to Barca in the summer with possibly Arshavin, where will that leave us?

C’mon Mr Wenger, get a grip before we start to play our full strength team in the Carling Cup every season, as it is the only silverware we will have a chance of winning.