You won't find a lot of Gooners unhappy with Arsenal playing the beautiful game. Change the question to a matter of grit and 'getting stuck in' and the percentage will drop for sure.

So does Samir Nasri's action point to the current team getting more aggressive or more petulant. I have to make it clear that if he receives a ban for his stamp/rake whatever, then it will be justified. Doesn't matter that Garcia made a mountain of it, he shouldn't have done it. But that's not what I am concerned with, it was the reactions of the rest of the Arsenal team. OK to be honest much of it was a bit 'handbags at dawn', but the point is that apart from Smiling Billy, they were all there together. Whether this was as a result of the dressing down at halftime last weekend or just the simple fact that Hull had been out to niggle and had done that pretty well is hard to say. May even had some echoes from last season. Either way it's safe to say we don't really get on as clubs.

And that is completely OK in my opinion. When you get a love-in between two clubs with such different viewpoints on how to play the game will be when footy gets not worth watching. If they want, Hull can try to upset our game, there's nothing in the rules to say they can't, even if some as Manuel put it "can't play football". But if they deploy such tactics, there has to be a cost. Were Hull to try their brand of play against another of the more physical sides, they would expect to get it back. I don't think anyone outside of Arsenal expects that to happen at the Emirates. The fact that it did does not fill me with pride, but it does make me hope that we actually learnt something from the Chelsea game and won't get rolled over so easily in future. Be nice if we kept it legal though.

As for the mysterious penalty, not only was there nothing that merited that decision in the first place, but why the heck were three players doing all going for the rebound. It's not that I feel upset or sympathetic or anything mind, but the expression on Geovanni's face afterwards said it all.

From that point onward, the enigma which is Diaby showed both why I think he is a great player, and why he annoys me so much when he doesn't play like that so consistently. When he powers forward rather than playing silly's he can unlock defences and he did twice to stop us worrying that is was only 1-0 to the Arsenal.

I was more than pleased to see Eduardo get on the score-sheet, he has been so off the pace, and managed to almost miraculously miss when he did score. Probably accounts for why he wasn't exactly beaming from ear to ear afterwards. For both his sake and ours, I hope it puts whatever issues he has to rest and we see more of the Eduardo who made that superb turn, but from now on stick the ball away. Needless to say Theo is in a similar position. The lob was a good idea and so nearly went in, but he needs to get a goal, any kind of goal and hopefully can crack on from there.

So aprés Christmas, we have another big game we have to win against Villa. Signs are at the moment that they could take 'Pools place in the CL next season. Although everyone was saying that about them taking our place last season and they fell away a bit. We'll see. But with the two current top clubs looking far from invincible, and incidentally Arséne being proved correct about dropping points, this season still has a great many turns before the end.

I suppose it's still a bit early talking about who to buy in January being as how we seldom buy before the last knockings an' all, but the Incredible Hulk or similar (doesn't have to be green), at either centre forward or centre back would be smart. And if he's got a brother maybe we could get a bogoff. And double Nectar points.

Incidentally, Porto? Yup, I'll settle for them.