I find myself so worried about the result and the consequences of the team imploding that I rarely enjoy matches. I mean, the way things have gone thus far this season I should be lapping it up....what with the beautiful football, goals scored, youngsters stepping up..are we really appreciating what we see?! Hand on heart can you honestly say that in the back of your mind you are not waiting for the inevitable, annual cock up that befalls our season?

Has it always been like this? I can't remember what it felt like to be confident that the Arse will wipe the floor with the opposition before the match starts. It makes winning more a relief than a pleasurable experience...and even then theres the next fixture to start fretting about..it never ends. Anyone else feel the same or do I have a disorder?

the edge has come in since we stopped winning things, now there is paranoia that every season will end trophyless so we don't like getting carried away with immediate success. back in the day we were winning things fairly often so was much easier to enjoy the moment as we could be confident this would lead to something.

to be honest I would rather have the feeling that I do before games than be a Pompey fan

to be only 2/3 months into the season and not a hope of sniffing anything this season would have me on the edge that it seems our current team has you mate!

teams change and we don't have the same players that we so wholeheartedly believed in in the past!

I sense a maturity in our current crop though and have started to see the kind of things that were not there in the past....the team excites but will disappoint too, West Ham should never had happened....but ManU probably think the same about Burnley.

We are closer then what you may think!

look around, Liverpool have spontaneously combusted, just highlighting the fact they at best a 2/3 man team

ManU and Chelsea are ahead of us but on evidence not by much

the young pretenders Citeh and the Spuds are not doing enough to make us worry....Citeh are only showing they are good at drawing games and the Scum were taught a lesson

We may still be a work in progress but I am enjoying watching it.....a little less of those Diaby moments would do wonders for the heart but we have a squad (still may need to be a bit stronger!!?) that I believe can hold their own and I hope will get stronger.

I look around and see the likes of Gallas and RvP taking central roles as the ones to provide the experience and as the season goes on and we approach our own time of year when it seems the wheels start to come off, I hope those same players take on an even more pivotal role.


let's hope I have managed to open the door and allow a little light into that dark room you seem to be in Arshavinlittlelegs!!

IMHO Gooners have always had a tendency to be 'glass half empty'. Compare and contrast to Manure; Spurs :haha: and Chelsea fans. This is IMO something beyond simply lack of recent silverware.

But more than any other fans in the league, we suffer from fear of the abyss. Of our 'competitors' Liverpool fans are used to years of not winning the league, and have a recent CL trophy to point to. Chavs and Manure are still enjoying glory days, and everyone else really knows anything about winning something worthwhile.

At the back of our mind is waking up in 10, 15 years' time and a last league title being ancient history.

Yeah, I know I do anyway.

Tbh, the only tme I found watching Arsenal to be anything other than nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time was smack in the middle of the Invincibles season. I know we were playing nice football and everything but it just started to get a little routine, you knew once Bergkamp had teed Pires up for a nice curling shot the other team would get forward more and Henry would score on the break and that was it. Actually I had similar problems last season as it got quite predictable too but not in a good way.