Arsenal’s game against Aston Villa today might not be make or break but, such has been the ratcheting up of the pressure on Arsene Wenger in recent weeks, it feels like it is.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger accepts goalscoring captain Robin van Persie will always grab the headlines, but maintains it is a collective team effort which has turned the Gunners’ season around.

Arsenal 1 Everton 0

THE POOR old FA Cup has been subjected to more battering in recent years than the Spanish version which Sergio Ramos let fall under the wheels of the Real Madrid bus.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not.