Fabregas urges caution with goal-greedy Gunners

MICK MCCARTHY’S sour wit suggested Arsenal would be quaking in their boots at the prospect of having to face Wolves when he prefaced this encounter.

He was joking in his own dour way, of course, and his latent concern came to pass. The idea that Arsene Wenger’s rampant side should be fearful of anything right now is frankly laughable: goals continue to spew from all areas as quickly as they find passing angles undreamt of by those less gifted.

The blinding statistic of scoring 55 times before the Halloween costumes have barely been packed away indicates that if anyone should be concerned it should be Carlo Ancelotti and Alex Ferguson.