I woke up feeling not to bad considering I had been to the company sales conference the previous day and had partaken in a few glasses of Rioja and a few bottles of beer until the very early hours of the morning. As the coach left the Midland Hotel at 11.am to take the rest of the sales team and the sales support team back to the train station for the chartered train back to Reading I was jumping into the taxi for the Queen Victoria pub just outside the City Stadium to meet up with Tormod, Reidar and Munich.

I had arranged to meet up with Baso in the Manchester City Supporters Club but they were only given 4 tickets to get in,  it was not a problem and I was looking forward to catching up on the latest news from Norway, they are always good company.

The first pint went down remarkably well when I consider that my last drink from the previous night was only about 7 hours before. We left the pub with about 15 minutes before KO  and found our seats right next to the home supporters on the lower level in the right hand corner.

I was confident in us winning today and it didn’t even enter my head that we were not going to get the 3 points and I have since found out that we have beaten them 18 times out of the last 22, so I had a reason to be confident even though City were very strong at home and in fact remained undefeated at home to date.

The Arsenal starting team was Lehmann, Clichy, Gallas, Sagna, Senderos, Fabregas, Diaby, Flamini, Hleb, Adebayor and Eduardo, with 46,485 people inside the ground to witness it all unfold.

The fans of both teams were on song as well with quite a few little ditties going around with City reminding us about the Spurs defeat and us reminding them a balloon against Sheffield United beat them.

The first goal on 9 minutes was strange because none of the Arsenal fans knew we had actually scored as it looked Sagna made this fantastic run and pulled the ball back to Big Ade and he side footed it towards goal but it looked like the ball went wide and behind the goal instead but soon as we saw the rest of the team chase big Adebayor we went mental and that was it really from that moment we never looked in danger and this was followed up by a fantastic goal from the goal assassin himself Eduardo in the 26th minute he got onto the end of a lovely move started with a fantastic cross from Clichy to Adebayor who knocked it down to Eduardo and with his back still to  goal he scissor kicked it past Hart in the City goal for a 2 – 0 lead and the job was done.

Clichy did try to allow City back into the match a couple of minutes later when he uncharacteristically lost possession in our box and Fernando scored on the 28th minute which gave the City team a bit of hope and they did have a good spell until half time, but we really did not look like we were going to lose this at any stage what-so-ever.

We came out for the second half in the same frame of mind as we started and really dominated the possession and efforts with stats of 14 shots to City’s 5. the game was wrapped up in the dying few minutes when Adebayor was brought down by Elano in the 89th minute near the halfway line when he saw Adebayor go past him with ease, so he stuck out his leg and tripped him up, Adebayor got straight up again as the referee waved play on and the big man himself scored the final goal as the ball fell to his feet after it was deflected to him from Sagna’s pull back/ cross after he had made the 30 yard run into the box with a practically empty goal waiting for him to side foot the ball  into the bottom left corner of the net. The referee then went back to Elano and booked him, yes he did deserve it however Marriner giving Elano that card now means he misses the Match at Old Trafford next week.