At a time when Arsenal fans were gripped by a bout of fear, uncertainty and doubt, Arsene Wenger got his team of supposed underdogs to engage Manchester United in a game that we will remember for a while. A 2 – 1 win for the gunners will surely put smiles back on the face of gooners.

A well deserved victory in a magnificently breathtaking display of wengerball will have given Wenger a bit of vindication, but how much does it mean to Arsenal’s season.

After a pressurised week Wenger can afford a smile.

The fact is, in the lead up to this game the media frenzy on the back of Spurs, Stoke and Fenerbahce was in high gear, and sadly Arsenal fans bought into it. Actually the reality of Arsenal’s season lies somewhere between the pits of Stoke and the peaks of United. I would venture to say that it is somewhere around the highs of Saturday’s game.

We need to get out of this exasperating, knee-jerk mindset that is imbued into us by a ravenous media. No doubt that we should ask questions of our manager when our team seems unable to get it up for Stoke, so to we should temper our jubilation when we’ve beaten the the European champions. The extremes we allow ourselves cannot be healthy.

Before the Manchester game we were 6 points behind the leaders, today we are the same 6 points behind. We have to hope that Saturday’s victory have injected some measure of confidence in the team and we can carry this morale boost into the next game and let it snowball form there. None of us should doubt that this team can beat any team in the world, what the fans really want to see is some sort of consistency, that’s why a win against Villa next week is now the most important result of the season.

Those that have written us off in the title race couldn’t be more wrong, what is forgotten is that we had about a 6 point lead for most of the last season and ended up 4 points behind the eventual winners. Like the boss says judge us in May not now, there is too much that can happen between now and then.

The attitude that Chelsea, Liverpool and ManU can’t possibly drop more points than us is difficult for me to understand. Look how easy it was for Chelsea to let in 3 goals in their loss against a Roma team that currently sit in the relegation zone in their league. Liverpool earned the same point as we did against Stoke and Tottenham. Why is it so hard for us to go all the way?

Who would have thought a midfield of Walcott, Denilson, Cesc, Nasri, and Diaby would overrun Manchester United? Or that Bendtner alone upfront would keep Vidic and Ferdinand honest? Or Gallas would be so commanding at the back? Only Wenger did, and that is why he gets paid to be a manager not me or you (unless you are getting paid to be a football manager).

There’s no doubt that the talent within the team is immense, it is only a matter of getting the players to believe in that talent and go out with the correct attitude to win games, and in turn win titles.