Arsenal 6-0 Blackpool

That should lift the spirits.

An electric performance gave us the biggest win at the Emirates so far as a Theo Walcott hat-trick, an Arshavin penalty and Diaby’s fine finish well and truly battered a lively and refreshingly un-fouling Blackpool team.

All afternoon Theo found himself in the space that teams so rarely give him to cause absolute mayhem, give him a yard and he will take a mile, literally, as hardly anyone in the game is able catch him.

The first finish was nice and easy, just getting the ball out his feet and sliding it into the corner – not easy when you haven’t played all that much football but it really got him going. His second was a thing of beauty, a brilliant turn and clinical finish into the corner showing why the manager does class him as a clinical finisher.

By the time he had wrapped up his hat-trick the game was well and truly over as a contest, the core of the team had held firm and the central partnership of Abou Diaby, Jack Wilshere and the brilliant Tomas Rosicky were the hub of most of the attacks, Rosicky in particular was at the the best I have ever seen him in an Arsenal shirt, his passing ability is sublime and he again showed his quick feet to wriggle through players as if they were training cones. We really do have an embarrassment of riches in that area of the pitch.

Jack Wilshere had one of those games where you don’t really pick up on what he is doing, he held back showing the maturity needed at the highest level, and went forward when he was needed – he put the odd pass astray but its a testament to how good he is that he doesn’t by any means look out of his depth in the center of midfield. At that age Cesc Fabregas was still played out wide on the right in a 4-4-2. Now, I’m not comparing him to Cesc but it is an interesting observation.

I don’t think this is the time to talk about negatives, and there weren’t any. Alex Song looked very dependable as he partnered Thomas Vermaelen and Manuel Almunia’s distribution was good for the whole 90 minutes, pretty accurate and despite him having nothing of real note to do, he seemed to keep his concentration pretty well.

There have been people crying out about how its ‘only Blackpool’ but its not easy to beat any Premier League side 6-0 despite the few results like that so far this season, if it was United or Chelsea they would be described as imperious and title favourites.

It was a brilliant day for us, the fans got to see a brilliant performance, a clean game with none of the snide tackles we have become so accustomed too, Theo Walcott got three, Diaby scored a brilliant goal on the half volley, and Chamakh got his first goal for the club.

He had a decent afternoon did Chamakh, he was involved in pretty much all the key moves and does get into the right positions and more goals will come. He was guilty of a horrendous miss from 6 yards out but on another day he would have joined Theo in the goal stakes, the Blackpool goalkeeper was on top form and it looked for 83 minutes like it was just not meant to be. That wasn’t the case as we know and it will do wonders for his confidence – we know he will stay grounded and put in the hard yards, he seems a very dependable player, you know what you will get from him.

There is no point me going into great detail about the game simply because I’m writing this over 24 hours after and you have probably already seen it and heard some thoughts on it so please excuse the briefness of this blog.

A better blog tomorrow, I promise.