TERRACE TALK: Flamini brings steely resolve to title challenge

A crisp sunny day for a drive out of the Big Smoke, the lilting Welsh accents of the genial locals, a clean sheet, three goals and a return trip back across the Severn Bridge, plumped up by a seven-point cushion.

Pretty much the “perfik” away day.

We Gooners have experienced enough false dawns during the silverware-starved doldrums to know better than to inauspiciously commence banging our own drum.