Arsenal unlikely to escape unscathed from hell-week

A genial head-nod to all Arselings out there. Things are usually pretty quiet on the disquiet front after a win, and it has expectedly been all shush-and-silence in the wake of us playing Blackburn like a set of drums last week. But just like the draw at Bolton didn’t mean that the team was on a one-way trip to Hades, a rout over ten-man relegation fodder doesn’t a summer make. And looking at the next few weeks Arsenal have lined up, summer seems to have given temporary notice.
On Saturday, we travel to Sunderland for a jittery League fixture in a season where our away form has been cack. Midweek duties will have us pulling up our stockings as the Champions League theme trills in the background; facing a Milan side who are as beset with injuries as we usually are, and are as unpredictable in their awesomeness-awfulness carousel as we are ...