To demonstrate how fast football moves…

Yesterday I woke up feeling terrible. I’d started to come down with a fever on Tuesday afternoon and by the time the Arsenal game on I was running a high temperature and got barely any sleep, going to bed straight after the game. That mean that yesterday morning I really didn’t feel like doing anything and the only thing I could really muster was 300 words from my iPhone for the BBC Sport ‘Fans Voice’ that I do after each Champions League game. Even that was a bit of a struggle. But a day of rest and sleep has helped to make me feel a little more human again, yet it feels a little belated to write a match review following the 4-0 victory over Atletico Madrid.

Certainly for Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal team, there will be very much a focus on Crystal Palace on Sunday, with Arteta even commenting on his pleasure at Saliba caught watching Atletico’s game against Osasuna on the team bus coming back from Fulham last weekend. That exemplifies the mindset Arteta wants to instil in his team; relentlessness in the pursuit of silverware and for us Arsenal...