Whilst my heart wished for us to give Sam Allardyce's Bolton a bloody good hiding last Saturday, my head told me that the game was going to be tight and indeed awkward and, not for the first time, the latter proved correct.
However, speaking from my own personal experience, it doesn't always pay to be right. In fact, there are times when you really don't take any pleasure from being right at all and in that respect, Saturday was definitely one of those occasions.
The game itself proved to be as tight and as awkward as I thought it would be but whilst Bolton inevitably got huge praise for their efforts in gaining a draw I think that the Arsenal did themselves absolutely no favours at all on the day.
I know that it seems almost churlish to have a pop given the run that we have been on but although we weren't up against football's equivalent of rocket science on Saturday we should have known better than to adopt the kind of casual, sloppy and careless attitude we appeared to go into this game with.
It was such a shame we did that too. The one time in the whole game where we actually DID play with a bit of genuine zip and purpose we opened the scoring. That was the moment where I thought that the penny had finally dropped from Arsenal's point of view but things just didn't turn out that way.
Mind you, if I was a little miffed after our game at Bolton, then it was nothing compared to how Jose Mourinho was feeling after his team had played the tiny Totts on Sunday. After seeing his team held to a 0-0 draw, Mourinho came out with a blistering attack on Jacques Santini and his team. I thought it was absolutely hilarious and the bit where he said that he wouldn't have paid £50 to watch a team play in the style that Spurs did, really took the cake.
Mourinho's rant has certainly whipped up all kinds of debate this week and I certainly do not share the view of Sky pundit Rodney Marsh who, in his infinite wisdom, claimed this week that Mourinho was talking tongue in cheek. Well, all I can say is that if Mourinho was on a wind-up then he must be Portugal's answer to Jack Dee because he didn't have the demeanour of a man talking with his tongue firmly in his cheek as far as I could see.
Anyway, time to get back to what really matters and that is our next assignment which involves a trip to Manchester to face Manchester City.
Now I don't know about you, my fellow Gooners, but there have times when I have wondered why certain people haven't got anything better to do than just cause trouble for other people.
Because of the implementation of the transfer window system, the papers do not quite generate the same volume of rumours on players transferring in or out of clubs. So by way of compensating for that the press have decided to aim their poisonous darts in the general direction football managers instead.
At present, the press have three chaps in their sights for assassination. Gary Megson and Steve Wigley are two of them and the other is good old Kevin Keegan.
It's fair to say that Keegan has been described as a lot of things ever since he took up the management game but at least what you see with Keegan is invariably what you get and if I was a footballer and had the choice I would rather work under him as a footballer than a snide whinger like Sam Allardyce.
As for the speculation that has dogged him over the last fortnight or so, well, it's nothing short of pathetic. After all, City are only two points behind their arch rivals ManUre in the table at the moment, level on points with Liverpool and three points off a top six spot.
Yet still, there are people in the press and in the media that are out to get him. They have never really forgiven him for walking out on England the way he did and it seems to me that they have a "quitter" dog tag made up for him and they seem hell bent on getting it tied.
Keegan has not had his cause helped by the ever erratic nature of his team in all fairness. Once again they have been predictably unpredictable this season and their record both home and away consists of one win, one draw and one defeat though if anything it's their home form that gives a perfect illustration of what City are all about.
First they played Fulham at home and were held to a 1-1 draw, then they played Charlton and thrashed them 4-0 and then they went and got beat 1-0 at home by Everton when City were so poor they, as Bill Shankly once said, were lucky to get nil!
Now, Sean Wright-Phillips may be the talisman at City these days and rightly so, but if there's one person that symbolises City in a nutshell I would have to say it's Robbie Fowler. The man known as the Toxteth Terror was dropped for City's last league game against Palace and I understand that he didn't figure in the 7-1 win over Barnsley in midweek either.
Since the day he left Liverpool, Fowler's career has generally been heading downhill but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he was recalled for Saturday's game with us. And regardless of whether he is past his best or not, nobody can afford to ignore the fact that he still has a record which is second to none against the Arsenal.
Nicolas Anelka doesn't have a shoddy record against us either. He has scored three times for City in the four matches he has played against us. What's more, he has been in blistering form since the start of the season adding another five goals to the 25 he scored for City last year in all competitions. I have never forgiven him for the way he contemptuously treated my club but he is, without doubt, a class act as a striker.
One other lad that might be worth watching out for is Antoine Sibierski. I remember this guy being outstanding when scoring a brace against us for Nantes a few years ago in the UEFA Cup. He definitely has an eye for goal and is terrific in the air for a guy that is not particularly very tall.
Now I'm going to break the habit of a lifetime and make prediction. What's my prediction? Well I predict that this game will definitely not finish goalless that's for sure.
I know. That's a bit of a cop-out but all I know for certain is that if Arsenal adopt the same kind of sloppy attitude they showed against Bolton there is no guarantee that we will come away from Eastlands unscathed.