Goal feast on the menu for Sunday brunch

I am no fan of early KOs — and I only have a short stroll around to the ground. It seems that very few Blackburn fans bothered to make a crack-of-dawn schlep down from the north-west, but for all those Gooners travelling from far and wide, who might’ve been forced to forsake their Sunday lie-ins, their efforts were well rewarded, with a veritable smorgasbord of a footballing Sunday brunch.

The Gunners produced the sort of sumptuous display that leaves you feeling sorry for the relative paucity of entertainment on offer elsewhere. Thierry Henry picked a good afternoon to introduce his little girl to the Arsenal, but I was more than a little surprised watching MOTD on Sunday night, to see that his ex-teammate, Patrick Vieira had made the mistake of going to Stamford Bridge instead.

Personally, I always blame that dirge of an Elvis song, The Wonder of You for the Gunners failure to come out of the traps at home games. Of all the millions of uplifting, energetic tunes that might’ve got the players’ adrenaline pumping as they’re standing in the tunnel just prior to a game, we had to settle for a downbeat, romantic lullaby more likely to put them in a coma.