Man Utd recently published a summary of their 2009 financial statements. I thought it will be interesting to look at how the clubs compare financially. Since their summary is only a two page document it's not possible to do a detailed analysis but we can definitely compare the incomes of the two clubs.

I was looking at some statistics and the passing stats interested me. I think Arsenal games can be classified based on these numbers. It's more of a post game classification rather than a pre-game one, although it wont be difficult to predict in many cases.

First up are the games we dominate

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Amongst our recent games, the wins over Portsmouth, Hull and Stoke are in this category.

I guess most of us were worried about losing Song to the Africa Cup of Nations. Now that he is back and I am assuming he will play against United, it is worthwhile taking a look at just how badly did we miss the Cameroon hard-man.

Song left for Angola after helping us win the Cup tie at West Ham.

The player interviews after games on ATVO are generally quite uninteresting. Most of the times you can predict what the players will say as the questions are quite leading. Every once in a while though, an interview gives me something insightful or thought provoking.

Sagna's post match talk after the West Ham game falls in this category.

I am the kind of person who just has to check the news every few minutes. I know that even if I don't follow the rumors all day long the same transfers are going to take place. Logically there should be better uses of time than to check the Arsenal website and newsnow ever so often. But practically it's impossible to avoid.

Wenger's pre-match press conference before the Everton game was quite humorous and interesting. Le Boss spoke on many topics and seemed to be in a jovial mood. Amidst the usual pre-match talk of injuries, signings, and the ceaseless Spanish Inquisition, a journalist asked Wenger how he is going to judge the season at the end.

What do you call a piece of news that's half expected and half unbelievable! When I saw the news of Sol Campbell returning to Arsenal earlier in the day, I was quite skeptical and ignored it as more media gibberish. Suddenly, a headline from the Arsenal website with Campbell's name popped up as I realized this was for real.

Over the last few days there has been unending debate over the state of Machester United's finances. Liverpool's financial problems and their on field issues have also become a public spectacle and been a source of immense pain and concern amongst the supporters of the club.

Most of the abuse has been directed towards the American owners of these clubs for the debt burden that they have created.

I believe there is a general consensus that our left side was quite weak against Bolton. It's not rocket science and most of us saw that their attacks originated mostly from the right channel. We were under pressure in the second half and I thought it might make sense to analyze this in detail.

Arsene Wenger came out and apologized for the mistimed tackle by William Gallas. How many managers do that!? He also gave a very objective analysis of that particular incident and quite a few others from the two games with Bolton. But if you read reports covering the press conference, most of the headlines are saying "Angry Wenger" or "Wenger Hits Out" and things like that.

Over the last week or so I have been trying to think of acceptable results from the next four games. It's just a thought stuck in my head more than anything else. We have all shared some laughs over the fixture computer but the time for jokes is now over just like our FA Cup run.

Mathematically, even if we lose all four games we can reach the 82-84 point mark that AW and Fergie have been speaking about.