Today was such a bad result for us to lose to our rivals in such a manor but what makes it worse deep down for me is how the team played. What can we actually come up with to find the answer to this performance, was there still bruising in the mentality from the Tottenham result which was exposed by a rampant Manchester United who battled and won every ball who set the tempo and tore us to shreds with a crowd giving them that extra in their performance or should we go for the excuse old excuse of we had a weak team?.Whatever the excuse Manchester United look to have wanted this battle more and I suppose every dog has its day but the truth is that we Arsenal are the best team in the country and the table does not lie come the 38th game we will have won the war and they can have beat us 4-0 all they like because we are the best football team playing in this country and will be going around north London with the premiership trophy waved from the top of a bus signing “ we are the champions “.

Short and sweet tonight but remember we can drown this result with a few pints wake up in the morning and we are still 5 points clear at the top!

What a great start to the game when only 4 minutes gone we won a corner , Eduardo delivered in a ball into the box which dipped and swerved into the path of Senderos who shrugged off some slack marking from Benni McCarthy to put the ball home and my thoughts was how many can we get ? .

As the game went on in the 1st half we had some nice build up play but lacked the final the ball and that final touch we just needed that bit of luck to get the break through but wasn’t to be with Blackburn defending deep and keeping it narrow . Eventually we all got restless the players were trying too hard to get the 2nd goal and left allot of spaces in which Blackburn took advantage with Reid picking up some nice positions unmarked in midfield and Bentley in some dangerous positions on the right and they did create some good chances but the break came at a good time for us as Blackburn were starting to really fancy their chances.

About 10 minutes into 2nd half I noticed Clichy was reluctant to get forward I could only think that was because of the threat from Bentley in which it did stop the Blackburn man from effecting the game from the right and had to come inside to find the ball but we did miss Clichy’s attacking nature as countless times we looked for him to deliver a ball into the box but wasn’t there. The game gradually got messy at times and was signs of Arsenal getting the second but just couldn’t find that pass or a clean shot, Adebayor had run the legs off Oojier in which he had to be taken off with a thigh injury and was duly rewarded for his efforts when Hleb got through in from a Cesc ball, He cut inside and laid it off to Ade who deceived the defender with his 1st touch and slotted it in the bottom corner.

Tonight’s performance was a battle, Everyone worked extra hard despite the international break with a standout performance from Hleb who’s touch was faultless his dribbling was immaculate but all in all we done the job tonight 3 points in the bag, a clean sheet and defensive performance like the old guard and 5 points clear with 12 games left COME ON ARSENAL