Wenger curses Gunners’ sloppy habits

ARSENE WENGER expanded on two familiar themes as he was forced to contemplate his side’s failure to finish off a West Ham side who completed an impressive comeback thanks to a disputed penalty.

The Frenchman knows his Arsenal team should have been celebrating a fifth successive league victory that would have moved them to within one place and one point of second-placed Manchester United after establishing a comfortable two-goal lead inside 37 minutes.

Instead, they left Upton Park with a solitary point after allowing a struggling West Ham to recover with two goals in the last 16 minutes and hold on despite losing midfielder Scott Parker to a second yellow card in the 85th minute.