A jolly good Monday. No doubt you’re all still basking in the warm glow from Saturday. I have to say I’ve watched the highlights more than once and I love the Sky commentator being reduced to an excited ‘Ooooh’ when Cesc’s goal goes in. It’s like he was lost for words and had to resort to caveman noises. That’s what Cesc can do. He can make people lose the power of speech.

The young man is now really showing just how he is. There’s no question with his talent that he’s capable of at least 10 goals a season and while he struggled a bit last season you never felt there was any real worry. He’s still so young and the likes of Gerrard, Lampard and Scholes didn’t start scoring regularly at that age. He’s not letting things go to his head though, saying:

We’re in a good run but have to keep going as this was just one game. It’s just the beginning.

And that’s the attitude that will make him, if he’s not already, a truly great player. Job done, enjoy it, but time to focus on the next game. And the next game is going to be considerably tougher than a trip to White Hart Lane. Sevilla warmed up for the Champions League clash with a 4-1 win over Recreativo, who aren’t really much good. It was their first home game since the death of Antonio Puerta so they were never going to lose. Kanoute and Kerzhakov got two each.

Both Arsenal and Sevilla play open, expanisve football. I can’t see them coming to defend because they are a touch capable of conceding at any time. There’ll be plenty of room for us as the likes of Alves get forward from the back and I’d fancy our forward line to cause problems for our old pal Boulahrouz. Anyway, more of that later in the week.

Arsene Wenger has described his team as ‘playerish’, meaning they love to play football. I would describe myself as playerish too, I also love to play football, but a more accurate description might be ‘watchingfootballwithabeerish’.

Yesterday a couple of the Sunday papers claimed that Stan Kroenke had agreed to sell his stake in the club to Alisher Usmanov’s Red & White group. I did a little digging to see what I could find out but there was no further info forthcoming. I shall keep trying and will let you know if I uncover anything. However, it’s fair to say that it would be a tremendous worry if it were true. That would give them something like 27% of the shares and makes him a far more considerable problem than he is at the moment.

But let us not dwell on things ugly this Monday morning. The sun in shining, Sp*rs are still licking their wounds and we, my good old Arsechums, are top of the league.

Not a bad way to start the week.