Even the Dalai Lama would lose faith in this Arsenal yet fans continue to pay the ransom in support of lacking in fight, will to win and a pride in self and club.
Beaten, by a penalty, at Stoke, having only registered 2 shots on target to be followed by the cream of Europe, the Premier League and Spurs. It's all like water to a drowning man.
It is the cliche; the next game is most important, but the next five is decisive and potentially fatal. Arsenal could be king but psychological frailty could make us king makers unless focus can be regained with a full strength lung-busting display and win vs Everton.
Only such a result against a team our players evidently fear would have provided the needed impetus this team needs to now challenge for the adulation they enjoyed for 17 weeks at the top.
The race to the title is a marathon but our Arsenal is hamstrung by confidence which could leave us first or fifth. The run across Stamford's Bridge may redeem our fading strides but not if we can't conquer the Seven Sisters along the road. Failure in either means we could be bearing gifts for the visit of the sheikhs and those beyond. Unless the Arsenal can earn at least 7 from the next 12 points, that'll be it for our race.
Arsenal's annual Feeble February has come to an end and the experts resolve hung by a thread thinner than our chances of lifting the Champions League this season. While horses, mules and ponies gallop through the minds of our competitors our gunners have quickly become the specialists securing our failure by dead legs at the Britannia.
Moanful March has started away at Stoke who limited the free flowing 'Etihads' to a single goal in fluke so Arsenal were warned yet Wenger's Weebles extended their 2 days off now find themselves set to hobble in chase of a resurgent Liverpool and the others with provably more favourable fixtures.
City's games in hand, Liverpool's firepower, Chelsea's know how could see Arsenal trail by as much as 6 points leading into the final 5 games, but by then Everton, Tottenham and Manchester United could pose a greater threat to our embarrassment than ahead. The failure to win at Stoke is merely painful in comparison to our terminal failure to find suitable striking options in January.
In season boosted by uninterested Manchester United this was Arsenal's and Arsene's year to rebuild the confidence shattered with Eduardo's broken leg at Birmingham.
Yet the club dithered yet again leaving the Arsenal march to championship lined with moans and regret as Wenger has yet again stolen ridicule from the lap of glory by gifting the Premier League title to collect a fourth place trophy.
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