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Have to say our mental strength has been absolutely outstanding.

Awful defending at set pieces to concede both goals. Also you have to wonder how a team can have so much possesion in the opposition half in nearly every game and manage so few goals. Admittedly a lot of it was down to bad finishing from Nasri today.

No! Don't give up yet!!! First you need to defeat United for us! Carefree:)))))

I don't think it is down to mental strength. We just seem to lack a physical presence in defence and attack. Goalkeeping position is the only area of the team we seem to have that and midfield when Song is playing. We can only play in one style when we attack when sometimes we need to play more directly but we can't without a certain type of striker. Bendtner isn't good enough and Chamakh seems burnt out. At the back we don't seem to have a commanding centre back to keep us organised and win aerial balls. Playing with a lot of small skilful players like Barca may work in the la liga but it clearly doesn't work in the premier league. Hopefully AW has finally worked that out.

I hope AW is joking when he says we dont need to bring in significant talent in the summer!!!! We need to strenghten our defence as a priority and badly need a forward with real physical presence. If not we will reapeat this seasons failures all over again! We really are the "nearly" team.

bowie - he hasn't and i doubt he will. He's forever coming out with "we want to focus on the game we love to play". The difference is that United just want to get the ball in the net. Arsenal want to walk the ball into the net. This team is not close at all and you seriously worry whether the scars from persistent failure and capitulation when it counts will actually weaken and not strengthen them. I almost guarantee that Wenger will look at it in the summer and think we've got close so let's stick with it coz we'll improve.

I think you're right GV, he doesn't seem to learn after so many seasons already. I have so much respect and admiration for AW and would not want him to leave the club. At the same time I think he is the one to blame for this situation not the players. I don't see a lack of effort from the players, the are doing their best but they can't change their physical attributes.

Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear...and I was really really honestly wanting you guys to win this one..In fact I was actually believing it was a dead cert Arsenal win.....How could are very dear London neighbours let me down?? Oh well $hit happens

joke of a club, everything you are is gangster funded, everything you've ever won is ripped and plundered from a gangster run nation. You're team is chocka of the worst scum known to football, ugly spit roasting lowlife that think nothing of cheating on team mates and partners. Revolting cheating diving Jokes like Drogba he really is a ******** disgrace. Scummy classless little club. The Michael Carroll (google it thicko) of football.

Never mind Melvyn I'm sure if i bought your bus stop in Fulham and spent a couple of billion on it you could overlook what a complete bastid I am.

LondonGooner, when football was football, Chelsea had the best away support in England, we literally took over grounds, for example, Fulham get gates of 5000-7000 against Cardiff/Swansea and the gate for the Chelsea game is 25000, some away games were like home games in those days for CFC. We also took 3 sides of Ninian Park and Maine Road. On the first game after promotion to the 1st division, we took 20000 to Highbury, look up Dixon clock end, it's all on video. We took 10000 to literally every away game in those days and where were the Arsenal fans? Nowhere! SB 2/3 full? Since when? We average over 41000 this season, as we do every year. Yes we have attracted some gloryhunters and tourists but the loyal fan base is still there, Arsenal never really had one, always been soft, everyone knows that. 4 of the top 10 attendances in English league football were at Stamford bridge, the highest being 82905. We have the 5th highest all time average attendance, in spite of going 50 years with no title, proving the loyal strength of our fan base. Niko how can u mention diving? Drogba has dived about twice in his CFC career, compared to RVP, Eboue, Arshavin and Chamakh who all dive and cheat regularly. Your manager is the biggest moaner in world football, everyone hates him now. Scummy classless? Greatest England striker ever, Jimmy Greaves, from the CFC academy, Osgood, Harris, Bonetti, Nevin, Dixon, Zola, Charlie Cooke, the liquidator, celery, one man went to mow, the Kings Road, what a great club Chelsea is, with unique traditions. You have been in our shadow for 7 years now, time to accept we are the pride of London, as the flag says and before u call the flag plastic, it has been around since the 70's, know your history kids.

Do u know any other club that throws around celery? Sings one man went to mow? Plays The Liquidator before every game? Has the glamour of the Kings Road? You clearly don't know much about football culture in general Mills, a lot of the football chants today were invented by Chelsea. The AND LEICESTER part of we all follow the, invented by Chelsea and now used by most clubs. What unique traditions do Arsenal have?

Please name we ONE unique Arsenal tradition.

LOL! I thought you would've named something more popular like chanting the goalscorers names at the emirates. Tough luck guys but it's got to be said, this happens every season and yet every season nothing changes, from your point of view, what is it this Arsenal team needs?

It's terrace tradition yes, what else would u call it? It's a unique tradition to Chelsea fans, interesting that u didn't mention any traditions with your fans, probably because u have none, always been soft fans and always will be. Doing things the right way? If u mean selling out for business, selling the name of your stadium and moving to a plastic soulless lego land then yes, great. Electronic turnstiles? That's your tradition? Sums up what a plastic club Arsenal has become. Even some Gooners i know admit it, u need to be rich to buy a burger at lego land these days, full of yuppies who sit there with their arms folded. Your club has been bankrupt in the past you know, football didn't begin in 2000 lol. Arsenal fans talk about their club like a business, it's really sad but very apt. You will soon be owned by a one eyed billionaire, is that the right way? Your response proves my point totally, cheers.

Hilarious, love the way the 1st thing on your list is about how you and your lot serenade about brushing each others anuses lovingly with a garden vegetable. One man went to mow is a crap chant - always has been naff, always will be and wow you play a tune before every game...groundbreaking stuff. The funniest thing is your insistence that Drogba has only ever dived twice - priceless!! How the hell can that be said with a straight face?

niko, it's a nutty tradition and it's a laugh, we have songs, we invented a decent amount of them and the rest follow. Do Arsenal have 1 unique song? Please show me evidence of Drogba diving? He dived against Liverpool on the half way line....Why even mention diving though, we know your players like the odd dive. Some of Chamakh's dives earlier in the season were disgraceful.

Well there's a tradition for a start, we've managed to curb halfwits flinging garden produce about. Why don't you get Cech to stick a couple of stalks in his helmet to keep the glorious tradition alive and well?

I went to Chelsea once. Total library. I went to the museum but the tour was over in two minutes. ***** club. We went into the club shop. Oh dear...some bird tried to sign up me and mate to join the mailing list. pffftttt!!! No thanks!! The stadium reminded me in of a duplo lego set: bits of it had clearly been squashed together in an attempt to create a seamless whole; a project which, by and large had failed. Oh well, what would I know?...I suppose you'd take this as rather disrespectful after all your club's great innovations. I mean, where would be in a world where people didn't throw vegetables at strangers?

Lol, an Arsenal fan calling another ground a library, your old ground was known as Library Highbury and the plastic Emirates stadium has taken that reputation to another level. Yes the atmosphere at the Bridge has got worse but it has everywhere and that's modern football. The problem for Arsenal fans is they had a reputation for it when the game still belonged to the people, always been soft fans, ask anyone who was around before football sold out in the 90's.

heh even our resident spud puts the boot in! it is sticklebrick bridge - even Boltons ghastly ice rink style effort is easier on the eye.

Spud, i wouldn't bother, you will be lucky to have Europa football next season, you couldn't beat us for 20 years and you have been in our shadow for a long time!

Jackstan, I guess our fans will just have to be happy with traditionally being known as Gooners rather than Celery throwers. You got me on The Liquidator though. What genius at Stamford Bridge wrote that one into the rich tapestry of Chelsea history? He should be knighted.

Wasn't it turnip throwing when Ken Bates was around?

Do u not think it's a great pre match song Mills? We got the Liquidator in 68, a year before it's official release, the SB DJ had SKA connections in Jamaica, SKA was popular in that part of London at the time and it's been our anthem ever since, proper history and tradition that is. What do u play? The Emirates theme tune? Tony, when the fighting was happening, the yids were nowhere, you became a force when it no longer mattered. There's plenty evidence on Youtube of Chelsea taking the ***** at WHL, on and off the pitch. Now CCTV is here and the stadiums are all seater, Spurs are the big boys LOL.

Stop trying to chat me up Tony, i'm not that way inclined.

This is all ducking the main issue here. Do you want a giant statue of a stalk of celery with Romans' gangster mug on it outside your shanty dosshouse or f:u.ckin what?

First and only English club i should say!

*sides. The skinheads of the 60's were not actually racist, that's why they embraced SKA, it united black and white people. You still haven't told me your pre match song? LOL, plastic club.

So out of the 60000 at the Emirates not one is racist? I bet most of them posh **** would move if a Nigerian family moved next door. Chelsea has a very small minority of racists, like EVERY club. Preston NE gave racial abuse to a player warming up at the weekend but nothing was said about that. Is this the best u come up with now you're out of the title race? Chelsea are fascists LOL.

Wenger blabbering the same old excuses, shoulda, coulda, woulda, LOL, he is so blinkered and starting to lose the plot.