Terrace Talk: Arsenal - Optimism but fans not getting carried away

After a week when we beat one of the best teams on the planet and temporarily tasted the rarefied air at the top of the table for the first time in 20 months, it would be easy to get carried away.

We’ve witnessed more than a few false dawns in recent times, but after having endured so many seasons where the limit of the Arsenal’s ambitions was a top-four finish, I’m not about to pass on a rare opportunity to revel in the possibilities.

In these hysterically capricious times, where clubs are only ever one dodgy result from see-sawing between comparative clover and supposed crisis, the current mood of optimism can be so ephemeral you simply have to make hay while the sun shines. Yet I still can’t escape the sense our campaign continues to rest on the knife-edge. In the past, evidence an Arsenal team truly has the bit between its teeth has been the way Arsène has been able to rotate the squad, with confidence sufficiently high players are able to seamlessly slip into the roles of their counterparts.