well the gunners did it the hard way, coming from behind against Fulham. Mad Jens gifted prem new boy Healey a goal in under a minute and Arsenal then huffed and puffed for the first half. It got better after the break, especially after Walcott came on for the fairly ineffective Eboue. On the third time of asking we got a penalty after Toure was brought down. RVP converted and then with a minute to go Hleb (yes Hleb!) stuck in the winner. The whole afternoon turned on its head in 5 or 6 minutes - that's football. So with Cambridge United winning away, the Gunners winning at home, sperz losing and the mancs drawing its been a great start to the season.

Looks like we are going to have to be under canvas for some part of our Skye strip after all. Francis can only book the bunkhouse for 4 days, never mind early September in Scotland shouldn't be too bad and I'm looking forward to another assault on the Cuillins.

Rat watch: Day 2, Albert came out for a bit of an explore but mostly they've been lying low today..lazy sods!