No Red faces despite coming off second best

I HATE to say I told you so — and there’s my first fib of the day — but you might recall I did warn last week that the general writing-off by both media and fans of Arsenal this season was an absolute absurdity.

A point Arsene Wenger’s team rather spectacularly underlined on Saturday, as we all saw and freely admit.

And perhaps, as I wrote two weeks ago, we may have been in danger of over-valuing our own true worth — in much the same manner as our shirt sponsors had been doing for the previous two years.