cruel mistress...

Every football fan knows that our sport can be a cruel mistress. One minute you're smitten, revelling in the joys of a famous victory over possibly the best team ever to play the game. The next, you're waking up on a cold and wet Monday morning hoping it was all just some bizarre nightmare. Unfortunately, for Arsenal fans, it wasn't and their six year wait for a trophy continues.

After dominating Birmingham for large parts of yesterday's League Cup final, Arsenal conspired to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Gunners fans must be cursing the all too familiar problems; over-reliant on Robin Van Persie in attack and fragile as a Lib Dem manifesto promise in defence. If Birmingham hearts were lifted by the sight of Van Persie leaving the Wembley turf to be replaced by Nicklas Bendtner (an average player even on his best days), they were sent into raptures when Obafemi Martins was gifted a late winner, ending the club's near 50 year wait for silverware.  History wont remember the possession stats and Monsieur Wenger must now concentrate his players minds on the greater prize of European glory, hoping that his team don't have to wait quite as long as Birmingham did before once again opening up the trophy cabinet.