Call it what you want, the scales have fallen from my eyes. Arsène Wenger may be the greatest spin doctor alive with a 60,000 thousand seat stadium more or less sold out on a match by match basis predicated on the empty promises of a manager who refuses to accept the need to change what he is doing. And to be clear here, I am not one of those rejecting out of hand Wenger’s philosophy and belief in youth, but for God’s sake. We’ve seen before some of the best attacking football we’ve ever seen grounded by a mean defence. We’ve seen youngsters like Patrick Vieira learn about leadership from Tony Adams, Thierry Henry learning how to be a striker from Dennis Bergkamp, what is wrong with backing these kids up a little? There is no way Wednesday night would have happened with any of those four on the pitch. I might even take 42 year old Tony Adams over what we have now!

Perhaps, that’s going a bit far, but I see now there is a leadership chasm on the pitch, there are players on the pitch earning massive money and so thinking they are better than they are. The Baby Bentley effect, I believe it’s called. Anyway, I have no idea where this season will take us, there will be highs and there will be lows. But is any of it going to be worth getting excited about? The Carling Cup maybe, if Wigan don’t spoil the party first. I wonder what Nick Bendtner and Carlos Vela made of Wednesday night, I’m sure they would have loved twenty minutes against a reeling Tottenham, instead we get Eboue, Song and chaos. The new issue of the Gooner was out on Wednesday, the cover bearing the words “Jekyll and Hyde Arsenal”, what an apt summation of Wednesday night. As was one of the highlighted paragraphs in an article by Mark Halfpenny, “The tendency to self destruct and the continual failure to produce an end product is becoming a standing joke in football”.

Ha ha indeed for the Tottenham fans. But I guess such temperament issues are natural when so much of the team is founded in youth. We were all young once, and I know that I, for one, was a right moody so and so!

Apparently, Gallas and Eboue won’t be available this weekend, if Gallas is being “rested”, then I think that’s harsh treatment of a man who didn’t do much wrong on Wednesday and was brilliant last Sunday. But if it’s a precursor to a captaincy decision, perhaps it’s for the best. Not that I think it will be. And the way I feel now, I’m not sure it matters much.

Pulling my head out of my arse for a minute, I guess there were some positives to take from Wednesday night. The atmosphere in the ground was truly something to behold pretty much from the moment I took my seat. The joy that exploded in the stadium when Silvestre equalised; the fact that thousands of people to whom spending £7 on bullsh*t food is more important than supporting the team missed Gallas’ goal and the fact that most of the very same fans deriding us for our lack of support in February had left the ground by the time Spurs got their Lazarus impersonation going.

No surprise to see this become available, I think I predicted it yesterday! I don’t think I’ve ever bought a dvd celebrating an Arsenal draw, but then that’s because the club would never release one.