Reminiscent of a 1994 Graham team; Did Arsene forget about Theo's injury?; Don't blame Aliadiere

I'm really not in mood to write too much today. I'm still sickened by our dire performance yesterday. It was like a performance from a George Graham team in 1994.

Wenger said this of the performance : "We are jaded physically and, although we created plenty of opportunities, the final ball was not good enough. This month has been mentally very hard because we lost against Blackburn in the FA Cup in the last minute, we lost against Eindhoven in the Champions League in the last minute and we have lost here in the last minute."

Indeed, the final ball was horrendous. It also doesn't help when in reality your full backs are playing like extra centre-halfs, your wingers are playing as full-backs, and as a consequence your strikers are playing in midfield. In effect, your strikers are looking to play a ball to... well, nobody really!

The Irish Independent reports that Walcott is out for the season:"You can see that now. He was on for only 10 minutes and his shoulder popped out, you cannot play football like that."

Two things bother me about that report. Firstly, we all knew Theo's shoulder liked to pop out: So why is this news? Secondly: Why was he playing? Didn't Arsene know?

In yesterday's blog, I ranted about the defensive selection.

Goodplaya, on the other hand, gives an accurate assessment of the midfield and forward selection:

"Wenger’s front six at Goodison had three goals from 69 Premiership starts."

That would be a shocking statistic even for a team content with 17th place.

And before the rest of us hop on the already crowded 'Blame Aliadiere' bandwagon , we should perhaps reflect on Goodplaya's assessment of the much-maligned striker's performance.

Aliadiere: Missed one good chance, which contrary to what Andy Gray claimed, did appear to skip up. In a struggling side, Aliadiere has hardly set the world on fire when given his chance. But equally, his general play has not been so bad. 6

I normally dread an upcoming international-break as it usually interrupts the purr of a smoothly running Arsenal engine. On this occasion, I'm hoping Arsene remembers how to start the damn thing... or buys some petrol or something. Whatever it is mechanics do on those occasions

Ah, that's a bloody awful analogy. I'm off to Paris for a few days. See you all this weekend.