… Arsenal would then go on a run of three games in the same competitions in which they won all three, scored 13 and conceded three.
Of course, that’s only three games, but we can get some glee out of the way the journalists tried to handle it. I thought the Guardian came out rather well with, “Oh for heavens’s sake, get a room. Actually don’t. This is, on reflection, a global spectator sport. But show a little restraint. People are watching. Including, it seemed for much of the first half at the London Stadium, the entire West Ham defence.
“There were times during those 49 wild minutes when Bukayo Saka and Martin Ødegaard seemed to be playing pretty much in the same pocket of air, like a pair of hummingbirds, beautifully conjoined.”