If we want to ensure there is a balanced review of matches i would suggest that arsenal playing liverpool off the park for 30mins doesnt result in a deserving win as for the remainder 60mins liverpool took control other than for the odd scare. So on balance you could argue that liverpool played better over the 90mins and showed their brilliance by pressurising arsenal into submission in the last 10mins which arsenal couldnt do at the emirates. Thats the difference between winners and losers!

amer mushtaq, manchester, england

Hear Hear Robert!

Al, London,

"the Barclays Premier League title is all his team have to play for " !!!!
How many other teams would like to be in Arsenal's position .?Even without a trophy this has been an excellent season for a young team .Wenger is right to try to keep it together without bringing in a "star" name who may not fit in .Senderos comes under much criticism but I seem to remember one of Arsenal's greatest players being criticised & called "Donkey" in his early years . Senderos will improve .

Nigel Nevinson, Massongy, France

I agree Robert. The other side of this is that during Arsenal's poor run, they lost only once in the league. We are the only team in the league to have 2 losses, the leaders have lost four times. This is why the result on tuesday has been so hard to take, there is not much more Arsenal could have done this season and to very likely come up empty handed is an huge injustice.
The reason why Arsene talks about the referee is that the Middlesbrough game had two bizarre offside decisions that went against Arsenal. If Middelsbrough's goal had rightly been ruled offside then they would not have kept 11 men in there own penalty area for the rest of the game. The gap would be 4 points at worst and the game on sunday would look a lot different. Also Hleb should have had a penalty against AC Milan.
Finally, luck is not smiling on Arsenal, The Middlesbrough goal was their first attack and almost their last in the game. What are the odds that keeps happening? Well it seems to be evens.

Leigh Rogers, Bath, England

Time for Wenger to take a dose of medicine.

Arsene is a tremendous manger, un-rivalled talent spotter and alchemist in creating saleable assets - yet he seems to have been missing the point recently.

My best friend a Liverpool fan tells me Arsenal are the best team in the world and play the best football but I counter how come they haven't won the champs leauge under Wenger or a leauge title in what will soon be four years. To which he counters Chelsea's millions, bad luck, the Champs Leauge isn't that important.

But all of it is important because although Arsenal play pretty football they've lost the steel of their Petit/Viera years. Wenger used to mix seasoned players with raw potential but now seems determined to prove he can win all with potential alone.

He appears afraid to spend money for fear of not having an excuse for losing. Arsenal are not his personal experiment or a trial in economic theory, they are big club which needs to win the biggest tropies.

Paul , Chiang Mai, Thailand

The problem with the hype that surrounds the Champions League and Premiership is that so much gets reported as black and white. Wenger is having to defend himself and his team as if they did something terribly wrong at Anfield. The fact is they played Liverpool off the park for 30 minutes while scoring a great goal and then conjured up another through the brilliance of a teenager -- and English teenager -- Wenger has nurtured. If the referee had opted not to give Liverpool a penalty -- and it must have been a 50-50 decision -- the odds were heavily on Arsenal defending the 2-2 score for the next seven minutes. In that case Walcott would have been praised to the skies as the greatest thing in football boots and Wenger would have been a genius. Benitez? Liverpool? They would have been rubbish. A balanced viewpoint is apparently beyond us in today's sensation-driven world.

Robert Ingham, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Wenger is lost, he dumps players as soon as they hit 30 & still refuses to play British men regularly. Answer this does Gilberto have the drive n passion of Gerrard or Scholes? Do Senderos, Gallas have a heart like Terry & Carragher? Are Hleb, Flamini, Fabregas prepared to mix it through our winters like Joey Cole, Gerrard, Hargreaves, Carrick or Lampard?
Do Adebayor, RVP have the strength to survive a harsh winter like Rooney or Crouch?
Do Eboue, Sagna, Clichy, Traoure, Diaby have the intelligence of Giggs, Finnan, SWP to come on & perform when cold?
Sometimes yes maybe, when teams do not play deep or when the conditions are perfect Arsene's foreign 11 will batter anyone. But when the season comes to the boil his mix of boys from everywhere, but the damp Island, simply crumble, it happens every year whether it be November, December or March!
Such a shame that such an intelligent scientist of the game missess the obvious. Play some brits, get a heart and success will follow.

paul, kensington, london