Thrill-a-minute ties bringing back good old days

HMM. What was I saying in my very final paragraph just last week? That we shouldn’t be wholly deceived by our Big Five wins, and that Wenger was surely right to be proclaiming he had seen future glory during his twin Manchester setbacks.

Cue six Arsenal goals — again! — to contrast with United’s off-colour Euro-tie, followed by a shambolic Saturday against a team fielding not one player who’d even make our reserves.

That said, I’m going to be contrary again and suggest this: forget the whinging about what we have recently decried — six home concessions in three games, and a flurry of substandard individual displays — and instead let us enjoy the overall ride. After all, in recent years, can you recall any previous triptych of successive home games that have contained such breathtaking excitement, such a pell-mell of incident and controversy, so many ‘games within games’? No, nor me.