Gunners’ long Good Friday

HOW fickle is confidence? A week ago, Arsenal were set to conquer the football world. Now they’re having difficulties coping with their own nerves.

While Claudio Ranieri and his Chelsea players enjoy the delirium of Tuesday night's Champions League victory at Highbury, most football observers have focused their ghoulish fascination on a team possibly in the throes of meltdown.

One has to feel a degree of sympathy for Arsene Wenger, who has seen eight months of carefully structured building dismantled in four days.