So much for Villa game being a lowlight...

THERE was me thinking a tortuous, four-hour trek home in midweek, following a dire goalless game against Villa was going to be my lowlight... little did I know!

Unlike Le Gaffer, graciousness in defeat doesn’t usually come hard for me. After all it’s not my responsibility to massage some life back into our players deflated egos. Nevertheless I was bemused by the credit given to Sunday’s victors because sadly the Gunners posed a pale shadow of the sort of stiff test to Man United that might’ve merited such slavish praise.

In fact, although it might not have been anywhere near as significant, in some sense Sunday’s defeat was even more humiliating than our capitulation in last season’s Champions League semi.