TERRACE TALK: Arsenal - Vital points and players dropping like flies

Carrow Road might well be one of the most congenial away days of the season, but it felt as if the Gunners travelled to East Anglia expecting the Canaries to gift-wrap all three points as an early Xmas pressie.

Instead of which, not only have we ended up throwing away seven potentially massive points in our last three league outings, but perhaps far worse, we witnessed Alexis and Koscielny, two of our most influential players, limp off with injuries that might well prove far more catastrophic.

I live in such dread of the Gunners dropping into the Europa League, by finishing third in our Champions League group, that I was quite ambivalent about beating Dynamo as I headed to last Tuesday night’s encounter.