Tough draw, especially after taking the lead. But away to Brentford was always going to be a hard fixture.

Going into these mid-week fixtures, they were 6th in the league and in decent form. The had lost just twice at home, and conceded 13 goals.

It is interesting that the narrative is “will Arsenal’s end-of-season form haunt them again”. This really is lazy journalism from the BBC, fueld by “banter” social media accounts. It also continues to the recent trend of BBC Spot becoming more “casual” and”dumbed down” in their reporting to reach a new audience.

The “Arsenal have bottled the last 3 seasons” really is a false narrative designed to farm hits, clicks and advertising revenue. The truth is very different.

2022/23 – small squad and not expected to win the league. We stumbled in the last 9 games of the season. But it is often forgotten that Man City went on a 16 game unbeaten run, winning 14 and drawing 2 as the hunted us down and eventually won the treble.

2023/24 – in the last 18 games of the season? We won 16, drew 1 and lost 1. 49 out of 54 points. That is incredibly good end of season form and a period that we actually closed the gap on Man City, despite them winning 15 out of 18 games (3 draws) in the same period. City needed a 23 game unbeaten run, with 19 wins and 4 draws to stay ahead of us.

2024/25 – Liverpool were ahead of us for every week bar one (4th game of the season). 11 games in the had opened up a 9 point gap on us. We reduced it to 7 before they ran away with it. We might have finished 2nd but were never really in the title race.

Only in 2022/23 did we ever become favourites to win the league. And even the we never had th huge gap on Man City some make out. We always had to go to the Etihad and the had a game in hand. The “8 point gap” was a defacto 2 point gap if they won those two games. Which the did.

Some will jump on the draw as “Arteta and Arsenal bottling it again”, and they are welcome to their opinion. But the are the sort of people that jump on any thread of negativity in an attempt to reflect the negativity in their own lives on others. Unhappy men who have realised they are failures in life and do not want anyone to do well.

Meanwhile the majority of us are backing the manager. Backing the boys. And trying to ignore the noise.

Keenos