Here’s my recipe for the sweetest tasting humble pie ever!

1: Take 60,000 dreamers who have been seasoned for 3 years minus silverware
2. Remove your most expensive, French ingredient.
3. Reduce the average sell by dates on the rest
4. Temper the Belo-russian luxury item into essential essence
4a Take Headless Chicken and stuff full of purpose
5. Nip to the Fulham Road shops just before closing time for late bargain- extremely useful and nippy in the centre of the pie
6. Cook in a large stadium in early August at high temperature and remove at the very last minute- your pie is now looking promising
7 Remove Sauerkraut - now seemingly past its sell by date and getting a little flaky
8. Remove overcooked, expensive Russian/Portugese dish from kitchen, still too early to open the 3 year old vintage bottle of Schadanfreude ?
9. Return to large Stadium and simmer until late March, bringing to a boil in May
10. Hopefully polish silverware and serve up to 60,000 hungry souls

Never has being wrong tasted so sweet eh? I thought I'd be whinging till May, maybe we will be miserable by Saturday afternoon - who knows - who cares. Right now this is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. What's more astonishing? Flamini's purposeful graft? Alexandre Song's outstanding appearance at the back against the Toon? (Phillippe- we'll remember only the goal line clearance, eh?), how good Diarra looks, Hleb, the fantastic little Polish goalie etc etc. Arsene knows, we don't . End of story.