Job done for Arsenal but a few concerns

Ultimately what we wanted yesterday was an Arsenal win and so when Danny Welbeck calmly swivelled and rifled home the third goal in injury time, the overriding emotion was obviously relief from most of the stadium and also for me.

I think if I was to choose a word to reflect the game yesterday though, it would be ‘laboured’, because it really did feel like a slog for Arsenal and West Ham certainly played their part in making the afternoon generally uncomfortable from an Arsenal fan perspective.

The pre-game build up was dominated by the news that Mesut Özil was ‘ill’ and so naturally as soon as his name wasn’t featured in the squad everybody in the media started frantically smashing away at their keyboards to bang out a narrative which has the German rowing with...