Terrace Talk: Arsenal - Gunners rediscover killer punch in slugfest

Unfortunately, an enduring lack of match fitness has forced me to be a little bit more discriminating about exhausting away days of late.

Yet with Mahrez, Vardy and the rest of Ranieri’s Foxes in such effervescent form, an encounter between two of the most entertaining outfits in the top flight was such a mouth-watering prospect that nothing was going to stop me from making it to the East Midlands.

Especially as we were travelling to Leicester with us Gooners still high on the intense surge of midweek euphoria, after Flamini almost singlehandedly surprised our own irritatingly noisy neighbours into stunned silence, by knocking Spurs out of the Cup last Wednesday night.