Terrace Talk: Arsenal - Time to put down marker again in Europe

Although it was marvellous to witness the Boys in Green bloodying the noses of Germany, for the remainder of the international break, I found myself being offered eight matches on the red button, none of which were worth the princely sum of my TV subscription. 

So after a seemingly pointless fortnight of tedious football, where aside from the incredible demise of the Dutch, the only object seemed to be the elimination of minnows such as Gibraltar and San Marino, I was salivating at the return of some proper Premier League entertainment.

Especially after last Thursday’s appetiser of the Arsenal AGM, where obviously the trouncing of Man United in our previous outing somewhat tempered the whiff of revolution in the air. Nevertheless, there were plenty of the unlikely-looking peasants amongst the Arsenal shareholders, who were intent on expressing their dissatisfaction at our disastrous Champions League defeats to Monaco, Zagreb and Olympiacos.