Now I've calmed down enough to reply here's an open letter to the Highbury Spy in response to his recent pile of sh*te ’Highbury Spy: There is a complacent cancer running through the club’. Despite the fact that I have the Spy's email address and could write direct I think it is altogether more interesting to respond in public, so here goes:

Only a jerk would wear a Citeh shirt amongst Arsenal ticket holders - did you or was it just the reflex witterings of a madman? (Ed’s note – In fact he wore a sky blue short sleeved shirt to indicate he was backing Man City, although if you saw him, you’d just have thought he was wearing a shirt for a sunny day that happened to be sky blue)

Only a total jerk would wish a scumbag like Adebaywhore to score a hat-trick against us - is it just your usual extreme wind-up nonsense or have you really totally flipped this time?

Surely only loon would claim we have only three decent players (Cesc, Thomas and Robin), or did you perhaps mean only three world class players? How the **** can a team with only three decent players finish as high as us in the league and make the last eight in the Champions League? Or perhaps maybe you were trying to make the point, in an obscure kind of way, that without each of them for vast tracts of the season we did seriously well to get as high as we did for as long as we did. Somehow however I doubt that was your intent.

Only someone who follows the more extreme or retarded Arsenal forums would want a new manager on any number of counts. Then again perhaps it's far too much effort for you to actually follow what's been really going on over the past few seasons rather than throwing a knee-jerk wobbly along with your toys out of the pram.

If I were you I'd be very careful what you wish for when requesting a new board. The new broom you wish to see sweeping through the club: would it be like any of the ones they had sweeping through Liverpool, Pompey, Hull, West Ham, Citeh, Birmingham, Villa or Newcastle, or would your new sweep invoke changes to put us even higher up the league than that little lot? With Usmanov hovering and an already uncertain summer for our shares anything is possible. Or perhaps you really want us to go bust, hock the Club up with debt or have a new manager every other season. Not that it matters because none of us will have any say or any choice in the matter in any case.

Apparently we only have three decent players (Cesc, Thomas and Robin) but somehow Merida, Bartley and Wilshere are already good players in the eyes of the Spy. Merida (20) is so good he's running off to Spain because he's bottled fighting for a place in our team. Bartley (not yet 19) is good on the basis of what I can only presume is the one Champions League game and the eight reserve team fixtures he's played. And the Spy can't quite figure why Wilshere (who had his 18th birthday as recently as January) has been on loan playing for a Premiership club given that he's such a ripe old age now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you want them all to be playing? This despite complaining bitterly about Wenger's youth policy in the very latest edition of The Gooner?

It's just so totally easy and spineless to slag off the whole shooting match rather than being constructive. But if you're gonna slag off my team in such a manner I think you've asked for a strong response, mainly because if you were any more negative you'd be a Black Hole.

That said the Spy is spot on for consistently slagging off our pitiful Charlton shirt. So we agree on something.