Have we the mettle to become winners?

NO SOONER are we sure that our Premier League dance is done, than fate goes and gives Gooners reason to believe.

The pundits allude to the Arsenal’s substantially less taxing run-in (on paper!) than the top two sides, as reason to suspect that we might still have a say in the title race. Such talk is all the more frustrating because, if I seriously believed us capable of stringing together the sort of consistent run necessary to avoid dropping another point between now and May 9th, we might well be in for a nail-biting finish.

However, despite getting the job done against Sunderland on Saturday, the fact that we couldn’t breathe easy until after an injury time penalty, was yet further evidence of our failure to kill off weaker opposition. Not all of our 11 remaining opponents are likely to be nearly so accommodating.