Arsenal 1-2 Hull City: Despicable!

I'm gutted. Absolutely gutted. I'm disappointed we lost, not so much the fact that we lost to Hull (which in itself is pretty sad) but mainly the fact that we lost at home. Just earlier in the day I was talking with a friend about Arsenal's home record and how impressive it was. Only one loss in all competitive matches at the Emirates in history. Now we've lost that record, and we haven't lost it in a respectable manner, such as a loss to a big four side, but we've lost it to a side who have never been in the Premiership in their history before this season. This defeat hurts.

I don't really feel like reliving the match, so you'll have to visit Arsenal.com or somewhere for a match report, but so sum it up it happened just as I and many others warned and worried that it might. We had chance after chance, opportunity after opportunity, and only one goal to show for it. Then Hull hit back through an unstoppable shot and by exploiting this side's great weakness: corners. I hate to lay the blame on anybody, but Gallas was (and has been) terrible at defending corners. Time after time he fails to mark his man effectively. He simple hangs on to the striker and watches him head it into the net. It happened at Fulham, and it's happened again. Now, it's not as if it's all Gallas's fault-the rest of the team also fail at defending corners-but our French captain has been the cause of both deciding goals in our two defeats this season. He seems to save or win us matches with his perfectly timed goals, and lose us matches with his horrid defending. I dunno, maybe in that way he really is a true captain in that he quite literally wins and loses us games.

Regardless of who is to blame and how bad we played during this loss, Hull deserve some credit. They played well and defended excellently. They used the exact strategies I predicted they would and they used them to perfection. So good job Hull, you deserved what you got.

Finally, and quite strangely, this loss makes me excited about Tuesday. Every time we lose, and our confidence is expected to drop, we respond emphatically. We seem to play excellently in our next match as if we're out to prove we can still be world-beaters. Just look at this season: after our defeat to Fulham we won our next two games scoring seven goals in the process. After the disappointment in Kiev we went on to beat Bolton 3-1 and go top of the table. So after this disappointment I believe there is a good outlook for Tuesday. The team will be out to prove themselves still world-class and we will be at home in front of our fans, and the lads will want to start a proud new home record. Until tomorrow,

Fab 4