Student and gooner, Arsenal remains my one and only love - although Arsene Wenger would run pretty close. Eternal realist and strong believer in securing a long term future over short term trophy aspirations.
Christmas is upon us and naturally, Arsenal are doing everything within their power to ruin it for us. As if our league position, injuries and the fact we are level on points with Tottenham wasn’t bad enough, our last game before the big event happened to end with a Martin Skrtel 96th minute equaliser.
Put simply, it’s been a very underwhelming campaign so far. 12 wins, 8 draws and 6 losses. Hardly the ‘season when it all changed’ that we were promised.
From 3-0 up, at home, with less than a half of football left to play against Anderlecht - Arsenal's shambolic collapse on Tuesday night has managed to scupper any hopes of topping their Champions League group even if they do achieve a win over Dortmund in two weeks time.
Arsenal's rocky start to the season had left much to be desired before their disastrous trip to the Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday night where their almost-thrashing at the hands of a ruthless, but not quite clinical, Dortmund side surfaced many of the issues that have perhaps been masked by a fair share of luck in the opening stages of this season for Arsenal.
Firstly, I'm afraid to say this is about England. So feel free to stop reading, I know I would. However, if you are one of the few people that still gives a damn about the national team, here are my thoughts on the dwindling support for the national team in the last 5 or so years:
