i just checked to see if my gooner friend had posted yet but perhaps like me she is still licking her wounds.. what a shambolic display! I know its not our first priority but 9,000 arsenal travelled to the stadium of prawns to be publically humilaited. shreck's grin just got wider as the game went on, he couldn't believe that toure and gallas could be so accomodating. ok so who's to blame? lets start with gallas, he is the captain and he showed no fight for most of the game and blamed others for his mistakes - he also seems to enjoy scoring so much in manc/arse games that he does it at both ends! toure looked like he was still in africa, hoyte and traore looked out of their depth. fab was not fab yesterday and gilberto is frankly past it (sorry but love him as i do his confidence has gone and his heart is not in it). hleb did ok, bendtner tried and eduardo i thought was our best player - running around trying really hard everywhere. jens did little wrong despite conceding 4 goals.. that leaves eboue.. what can i say? he is an accident waiting to happen and in the summer i would like to see his bum firmly repositioned onto a plane out of london. ade's dive was disgraceful and flamini was asleep when they got the fourth. hopeless the lot of them.. but wenger must carry some blame. they are young players (average age is just 7..) and need direction. his direction was that he would rather not play this game with the league so tight and the milan game on wednesday. united on the other hand were probably told that after losing to citeh last week they would have their expensive testicles removed individually by a specailly trained gorbals born torturer if they didn't improve against us. they did, they were very good - but we made them look even better. Wenger now has to get them into the right frame of mind to beat milan - it will go one of two ways: we will raise our game, repay the fans who tarvelled, and make wednesday night a great european night at the grove or.. it will start the decline in our season. i think it will be ok, we will beat milan and then (more importantly in my mind) beat birmingham at the weekend. at the end of the season this game, like the 1-5 to sperz, will be a footnote in a successful season. my fingers and toes are crossed.

more positively cambridge came from a goal down away at halifax to win 2-1 despite going a man down with 20 minutes to go. so with other results going our way the U's are up to 3rd at least until aldershot and stevenage play today. Im hoping to go see them at home on saturday agaisnt forest green (who thrashed us earlier in the season), i will see how the week goes.