Last night’s games were the return fixtures from the opening day of the season where Chelsea spanked Pompey 4-0, Liverpool put one goal past Sunderland and Samir Nasri made his impressive Arsenal debut to see off West Brom.
Arsenal marched into the month of March with an away win at West Brom. Wenger actually fielded Bendtner instead of van Persie – how brave of the manager to gamble this way indeed – but it all paid off handsomely. Shava didn’t score but provided an assist to Toure. Yeay! And yes, the guy who has been guilty of horrible finishing (so much so some wondered which finishing school he attended haha) actually scored two goals. And he was even unselfish at times - a rare statement indeed. Sorry that we had to disappoint the statisticians for not breaking the record of five consecutive games of goal drought for a top flight club but after four consecutive goalless games, Bendtner scored just four minutes into the match. 
It was also the second game where Shava played all 90 minutes, although he did admit the pace of the Premier League is much faster and he was already feeling it even before half-time of the match against Fulham. What matters dear Shava is that you have tried your best, which is more than what I can say for some Gunners.
BBC Sport Player Rater man of the match: Arsenal's Nicklas Bendtner (wow, who would have thought that?!) with 8.25 (on 90 minutes).
Hopefully this is the beginning to the rest of the season, eh Captain?
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I received an email out of the blue today from someone I was close to a while back. It was a bit of a shock to say the least.
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