ok, Walcott played, but the team we fielded did lack the players that we rely on for width. but nevermind. it just amuses me that you think it’s taken the full 12 years of Wengers tenure for someone to think of that. come on mate, don’t be daft. you don’t earn a reputation like Wengers (or Arsenals) that can be undone as simply as your suggesting.

also, clichy missed almost all the weeks training after narrowly escaping a broken leg the game before and anyone who’s seen us play over the past 2 seasons will tell you that he was no where near match fit by his standards. And he normally gives us some width.

Of all the teams I thought we’d get our Premiership reality check result from, Wigan was definitely nowhere near the top of my list. Arsenal, yes, Man Utd, yes, Chelsea yes… but Wigan….

It was a weird one to say the least. When I first learned of the team we were putting out for that game, it was probably of detriment that only one of our new signings would be playing - Marlon King couldn’t play as we’ve got him on loan from Wigan, Gardner/Boateng were out injured, Halmosi (despite being one of our most expensive signings) was on the bench, leaving Geovanni to complete a team made from those who got us promoted.

After Fagan missed an early opportunity for us, from here things went awry big time. Wigan’s pressure forced a corner, a lapse of concentration from Ricketts and a lack of communication between him and Myhill, Wigan scored directly from the corner. We pushed into Wigan territory in search of an equaliser but then disaster struck. Valencia’s pace took Brown completely out of the picture and he slotted home with ease - 0-2.

For the majority of last season, our centre back pairing of Turner and Brown worked. This was Brown’s first Premiership start and as much as I don’t want to single him out for criticism his lack of pace and being out of position when Valencia entered our half, he was pretty much at fault for that goal.

City carved out further chances in the first half but lacked that killer instinct in front of goal. This was to be our undoing.

The second half continued in the same vein, we created chances, lost the battle in midfield and went on to concede some sloppy goals, most notably Heskey’s which made it 0-4. Brown had a habit of heading back to the keeper in the Championship by skimming it off his head - it didn’t work this time and it fell straight to Heskey.

Zaki, who has a pretty good goalscoring record by all accounts, got his second late on, the ball crashing against the crossbar and fortuitously just going over the line before bouncing back out again. 0-5. Mauled!

Well, what positives could be drawn from this game? Although our possession wasn’t as good as Wigan’s (if I remember rightly, it was about 43%-57%), our shots on/off target was greater than theirs, it was a game we should have had at least one goal to show for our efforts. Wigan had done well against Chelsea the week before, but they certainly showed us the character and guile needed to win Premiership games.

Looking back, the result has helped us more than hindered us, we’ve got an unbeaten run going which is helping us build confidence and belief, if we had done a better job of containing Everton and not let our 2 goal lead slip we could have been joint top with Chelsea and Liverpool!! Anyway, that’s ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda’ talk, I think we will need to strengthen again in January and add more strength and depth to our squad and perhaps we will do much better than the 17th place we were all hoping for at the start of the season… at least we won’t face the prospect of ‘doing a Derby’, the team which our former ‘heroic’ chairman Adam Pearson left us for (how ironic is that??).

Onwards and upwards… come on you ‘ulllll

but Carlos the tiger really believes that Hull are the first team to have the brainwave of come to the emirates and attack us - and that that idea will now rub off on other teams in the EPL. That’s laughable mate. Hull did nothing in that game other than play really well with a collective passion that saw them winning the game. The idea that you’ve cracked some secret code by playing 3 up front and ‘attacking’ us is hilarious frankly.

Arsenal PREFER a game when attacked because it opens up the spaces that we so very much love to exploit. Hull had virtually no shots on goal for the majority of the game - an awesome long range effort from geovanni and a badly defended, well headed corner and yours was the victory.

Defensively you clogged up the box enough to scupper any arsenal player to have a decent crack at goal, and your keeper myson had the game of his life.

In conclusion, i take my hat off to Hull FC. They turned up and played their socks off and patiently waited for the moments that allowed them to win the game. But don;t get above your station, it’s pretty ugly to hear preaching from a newbie team to the EPL. I’d love to have received your ‘wise’ words after your 5-0 drubbing from wigan the other week.

It really is a massive difference to typical Manc or Sp*rs fans who all seem to be deranged idiots when they visit Arsenal websites. In fact, I got an abusive text from a friend at the weekend who supports Manchester United after the Hull City game. Yep, you guessed it, he’s from London.

I just hope you guys can do the same thing to United and Tottenham when you visit their grounds!

Now I here some other multi-billionaire wants to bankroll the Spuds! I’m afraid the final indignity of seeing our stubbornness lead to us no longer being the top team in North London will be too much for me ole heart to bear!

Following your recent run of results, I was half expecting us to get a good going over, a draw at best.

To quote “The worrying thing is that if a manager like Phil Brown (no disrespect, but he is hardly hugely experience in the Premier League) can work us out and execute a game plan with Hull City then God help us all.”, you’re obviously unaware of the fact that he was Sam Allardyce’s right hand man at Bolton for a number of years and although it seems he may lack that managerial experience, he has certainly been a contributing source of grief for Arsenal over the past few seasons. He has been a coach of good pedigree and reputation, to the point where we have benefited from the likes of Jay Jay Okocha joining the club and helping the development of the players we already have.

We can lose games stupidly too from time to time (5-0 against Wigan this season, 5-2 against Ipswich and 5-1 against Colchester in the 2006-07 season) but, apart from these results, we have been carrying an upward momentum ever since we moved to our ‘new’ stadium, and as you well know winning breeds confidence (however, we’re little old Hull and over-confidence is something we’ve never been used to, just ask Donny fans) and this is something that Phil Brown has continued to nuture while he has been manager, he has certainly made us a tougher team to beat and with the flair that’s been added recently a team that can score goals from nothing situations.

There’s a possibility that we might just slip away this season and fall back into obscurity, then again with the start we’ve had, we could go on and emulate the likes of Middlesbrough, Bolton, Sunderland and Reading who’ve come up from the Championship and spent more than one season rubbing shoulders with the elite. Unbeaten away from home for the first three games for a team promoted from the Championship must now prove that we’re a team heading in the right direction.

One great element to our win yesterday was that Boaz Myhill, Andy Dawson and Ian Ashbee played for us in our 2003/04 season in League Two, the basement division, and have been part of the Hull’s rise through the leagues and proved they can handle the rigours of the Premiership. How many teams in the Premiership can claim they’ve picked talent from the lower leagues before looking abroad? Theo Walcott is probably an exception to the rule, but even in his days at Southampton, in games against Hull we kept him under wraps.

Football these days has become consumed by wealth and greed, and a top-class league that has become staid to the point where you’ll always know who the top 5 teams at the end of the season are going to be. How boring is that? I’m glad that Hull have been to the Emirates and got ‘the’ shock result of the season but I think that Arsenal will get over it and will still be up there come the end of the season. You certainly have strength in depth, highlighted by the youngsters who played against Sheffield Utd. I’d love to have players of Vela, Wilshere and Bendtner’s quality in our team.

To sum up, the difference between you and us is that by next week, you’ll have forgotten about us, but we’ll have this result to look back on for a long long time.

Peace to all true gunners fans who follow their team through thick and thin and don’t jump on the bandwagon and lambast their players/manager because of a couple of dodgy results Be thankful of the success you’ve had and the wonderful stadium you play in.

Come on you ‘ulllllllll….