Our title chances are officially out of our hands.We're now relying on United dropping points and us winning all our matches.
There's actually more chance of us drawing all our matches. There was no drive in this team today, they didn't have it in them to grind out the win.
I said I was feeling complacent looking ahead to this match. Maybe the players were too. But the fact is Blackburn wanted that draw far more than we wanted the win. You only need to look at Olssen's performance, not one player in our team can say he matched his drive and enthusiasm today.
This Arsenal team was faced with four major tests of their nerve this season and they've failed every one of them. United in the F.A. Cup was a shambles, Sunderland at home was bottled, we practically threw the match away to West Brom and today when we needed to win, our attack was toothless.
The blame can only go with the players. You say the manager buys them but he can only bring them to the pitch, he can't make them put the ball in the net.
Whether it's a culmination of bad luck or bad attitudes on everyone's part is impossible to judge. But this team is now on life-support battling for every breath in this title challenge.
One more result like this will pull the plug.
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