JOB done. Well, more or less.

ARSENE WENGER has always maintained that his Arsenal side have the belief to win the Premier League title this season and they proved their credentials on Saturday by cruising to victory over West Ham.

AT the final whistle at White Hart Lane yesterday, Harry Redknapp took Alex Ferguson’s hand and whispered a sweet nothing into his ear.

THEY were playing the theme music from ‘Lord Of The Rings’ at one point on Sky Sports yesterday, as if to prepare us all for not just any other super Sunday but something more along the lines of an epic adventure of fantasy football.

NIALL QUINN may be making moves to utilise the services of the former Foreign Secretary David Miliband at Sunderland, but it was Alan Pardew who was the true diplomat in the wake of ugly scenes at the end to this latest Tyne-Wear turf war.

A RELAXED looking Minister Micheál Martin was at home with family and close political friends yesterday as most commentators were caught up in the will he? won’t he? mount a leadership challenge debate.

NORTHAMPTON can become the first team through to this season’s Heineken Cup quarter-finals tonight — but Saints boss Jim Mallinder is taking nothing for granted.

THERE might have been a time when Peter Stringer was in awe of French opposition on French soil but these days, not even the mention of a plethora of international names associated with Toulon makes the veteran Munster and Irish scrum-half shiver.

MANCHESTER UNITED will avoid the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League after coming from behind to draw 1-1 with Valencia and finish top of Group C; but, as so often this season, it is hard not to feel a little underwhelmed.

MEET the musicians who are going to new heights to lift the nations’ spirit on budget day.

SO now we know: nice guys don’t just finish last — sometimes they don’t get to finish at all.

ARMAGH secretary Patrick Óg Nugent has warned that a shortage of referees could prevent the Orchard county completing its league programme in 2011.

TONY McGahan is a master of keeping his feelings to himself.

THE WikiLeaks highlights make great reading, though strangely enough most of the information is no surprise to the public and no doubt to countries diplomatic services.

PAUL WARWICK has stressed the necessity of Munster sprinting from the blocks at Stade Felix Mayol on Sunday afternoon, knowing that anything less could signal the end of an era for the Irish province.

IF this is a phoney war, then Toulon will be completely bamboozled when they sit down and watch the video of Munster’s final Magners League match before returning to European duty next Sunday in the south of France.