1 Nil 2 The Arsenal!

Well another win chalked up for the Gunners against Birmingham (2-1 for those that didn’t catch the result) but the game was a little overshadowed by the sending off of Jack Wilkshire. He went late on in the game for a studs up lunge which in all honesty was a shocker of a tackle.

It was nice to Wenger come forward after the game and say that it was a red card and that he’ll be having a word with Wilkshire to make sure he realizes that kind of play is unacceptable. If only the likes of Mick McCarthy would follow suit!

Birmingham were lucky to keep Stephen Carr on the pitch during the first half of the game. He went flying in studs up and stamping which really should have been a straight red card as well. Consistency please Ref’s!

Aside from that we looked pretty good, the beautiful passing game looked very good and three points is three points!

Well after a very strange weekend in the Premier League in terms of results we should probably take some time to reflect upon the points dropped at home to West Brom on Saturday. Losing at home sucks and but losing at home to a team that are amoung the favorites for relegation sucks even more!

How on eath we allowed West Brom to go 3 – 0 up I’ll never know but they just cruised through us like we wern’t even there at times. We’re used to seeing the Gunners hit teams on the break, not the other way around! The defending for the third goal was nothing short of shocking and if it hadn’t been for Nasri getting us a couple it could have looked seriously embarissing.

Nasri’s second goal of the game was a peach after a slick drag back he banged the ball into the bottom left of the goal but even then it felt all like a little bit to late.

Fortunitly Chelsea lost at Man City this weekend and Manchester United could only manage a 2-2 draw with Bolton. It leaves us in 2nd place on goal difference with Chelsea top of the League on 15 points, us on 11 in 2nd, Manchester United in 3rd with 11 and Man City 4th with 11. Man United do however have a game in hand over everyone.

Well it feels good to beat Spurs in their own back garden and it might have taken till extra time for us to give them a good beating but we sure as hell managed it in the end. To be honest before the second half started it wasn’t a great game but once extra time hit things started to get a lot lot lot better!

Spurs actually didn’t look too bad once they’d recovered from going 1-0 down in the first half. Robbie Keane scored a decent goal from about 20 yards out and for a while they looked like they might come right back into it.

Two penalties in extra time soon put pay to that, both of which were slotted home by the in form Sami Nasri may I add and once we went two clear they were never coming back.

The only disapointing thing about tonights game is that Wenger was serving a one match ban from the touchline and couldn’t enjoy the victory with the players at pitch level. It once again shows the quality we’ve got waiting in the wings at the Emirates. Times ahead look bright!