WHO could wish for more from Santa the Gooner, than a nodding Arsenal bulldog to adorn the dashboard of my motor and three points from our encounter with the Blues, which guarantees that the Gunners will ring in the New Year if not as leaders then at least as the capital’s top dogs?

IF some French floozy has managed to distract an obsessed Arsene Wenger from his spreadsheets and his wall-to-wall diet of world football, long enough for some extra-curricular activities, well all I can say is that she must’ve presented him with some seriously attractive statistics.