Another collapse underlines what Arsenal are missing

ON all the available evidence it isn’t just a pair of centre-backs and a new goalkeeper that Arsenal require: they also need a new, stronger mentality to see out games.

This game may have been a reminder why football is the most popular sport across the globe. But it was also a reminder why Arsenal are not good enough to win the Premier League. Too often when Arsene Wenger’s side have gome looking for leadership this season, it’s been sitting injured in the stands or not available. “Arsenal need men,” Glenn Hoddle said this week. He had a point.

Those Wigan fans who left the ground early, confident the game was over and that Arsenal’s two-goal lead could not be overtaken, must be cursing themselves this morning after a simply astonishing last 10 minutes saw Roberto Martinez’s men come from two goals down to win this encounter 3-2.