Happy New Year To Every Gooner Across The World

Not quite the result we hoped for last night after Monday however, all is not lost, a win at St Andrews followed by another win in a massive game against Man City will mean this Christmas and New Year period has been a very good one.

Anyone who was there or saw the game last year at St Andrews will be desperate for some sort of pay back after that last minute leveler and there is a score to settle there.

The game Against City is also huge for obvious reasons as City lie joint top in the league but after already beating them once and beating Chelsea on Monday, the belief will be there and the players KNOW we can win the big games.

Both games could be crackers but both are ones we need to win! So lets win them!! Come on Arsenal!

Also, i would like to wish everyone a Very Happy New Year. Perhaps 2011 can be the big one for the Arsenal. Have a good NYE whatever you do and stay safe.

Not A Bad Way To End The Year At The Emirates!

That was sweet wasn’t it? For me, what made it more sweet was that even the most positive and optimistic Arsenal fans including myself were not at all confident. We all thought ‘here we go again, Drogba is back, Lampard and Essien are back, so that means a Chelsea win’ however, we were wrong. I’ll gladly be wrong as long as we get the right result.

This was the FIRST time we have beaten Chelsea with Drogba playing and Mr Wenger said before the game that if we can stop Drogba, we can stop Chelsea and he was right.

The atmosphere was electric and we sang our hearts out. I think a big night was much needed and a big result at home was also much needed. People talk about the mental issue of not winning the big games because Chelsea and Manchester United are not miles better then us (some argue they are not better then us and we are on par even) and its more in our heads why we do not beat these two teams. I am not sure how much of a mental issue it was or who has the better team and squad but the longer it went on, the worse it would get. So to break it was vital and could prove very important.

I rang the Fans Forum on Thursday and told our very own Tom Watt and John Cross (you can follow him on twitter @johncrossmirror) that if Robin Van Persie starts then we will get the first goal and therefore win. Some would say maybe I fluked the prediction but it was true! Not that I am going on about it!

But now the focus switches to Wigan. That’s a huge game, get maximum points here and then beating Chelsea will seem even bigger.

A great way to end the year at the Emirates and the next game at the Emirates will be Manchester City at home which again is a massive game as they are joint top of the league.

Lets go to Wigan and win then go to St Andrews and win and 2011 may just be a great year!

Come on you Arsenal!

Arsene Wenger's Greatest Quotes....

"Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet," said Wenger.”

"We live a society where everybody knows everything and it looks like it is a shame to say I don’t know.”

"I personally don’t know who will win the league. I have managed 1,600 games so if Nani knows he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.”

Another classic quote from the Gaffer, this got me thinking, there have been some great Mr Wenger Quotes and if any of you follow me on twitter, you may remember I tweeted many of them one evening but if you didn’t see them or forget, here is my top 20 Arsene Wenger Quotes again

20. "If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."

19. "Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere."

18. "I did not see the incident."

17. “Is the title over or not? I don't believe so. If everyone is right about the championship, then let's stop, give them the trophy and then start again.”

16. [Upon being asked what he does with his spare time] "I watch football."

15. "We do not buy superstars. We make them."

14. "I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you."

13. "If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best."

12. [After the Arsenal fans booed a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough in November 1998] "If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages."

11. [Upon being asked if he had received the apology that Sir Alex had announced he had sent to Wenger] "No. Perhaps he sent it by horse."

10. [On losing the lead of the league in November 2004] "It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous."

9. [On Arsenal's recruitment policy] "If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from."

8. "If you have a child who is a good musician, what is your first reaction? It is to put [them] into a good music school, not in an average one. So why should that not happen in football?" - September 2009, in response to Uefa president Michel Platini and Fifa president Sepp Blatter's respective claims that the top clubs' pursuit of young players was akin to "child slavery" and "child trafficking".

7. "A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."

6. [In response to Sir Alex Ferguson's claim that he possessed the best team in the league despite Arsenal winning the title in 2002] "Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home."

5. [After Jose Reyes announced he wanted to leave Arsenal] "It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you. I can try to help you but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?"

4. [On Emmanuel Adebayor's stamp on Robin van Persie] "I watched it when I got home and it looked very bad. You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes."

3. [On Jose Mourinho after the then Chelsea boss accused him of being a voyeur] "He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent."

2. "I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel yesterday, but I fell asleep."

1. [In 2003] "It's not impossible. I know it will be difficult for us to go through the season unbeaten. But if we keep the right attitude it's possible we can do it."

There you have my top 20 quotes, there are plenty more but I chose my favourites ones. The reason why my number one quote is number one is because to go unbeaten then tell people you knew you could do it is one thing, but to say you can do it, and then actually do it shows class. Mr Wenger believed in his team and he was spot on.

Merry Xmas to all celebrating and I hope you have had a wonderful day.