Much better performance. I put it down to the lack of an

[World's End Stella]

Yes, we're a decent side really but the trouble with losing 4-0 is that weak people imagine it means you're going to lose every game 4-0.

I don't think many thought that, red. Not outside of the Arsenal TV crew, anyway.

I do think an awful lot of people found more evidence that we'll lose to all the top sides, though. And that those games are unlikely to be close affairs. And to be fair, there is plenty of evidence over the past few years to think that that is correct, the 4-0 battering aside.