It's a Three-Horse Race Now.

Burnley (H)
Hull City (A)
West Ham United (H)
Birmingham (A)
Wolves (H)
Tottenham (A)
Wigan (A)
Manchester City (H)
Blackburn (A)
Fulham (H)



THAT, is our fixture list for the remainder of the season. We find ourselves 3 points adrift of the leaders, Chelsea, and 2 points behind Man United. Which, by all means, is a pretty good position to be in. Just by looking at the table we can conclude that this season it's going to be a three horse race.

This season, no team has shown the ability to keep consistent form. No team has ground out results time and time again to stay clear leaders at the top. People thought Chelsea would be outright winners from the way they were playing, but now their form's dropped a bit. People argue, the key to a winning Premiership team lies in experience and consistency, not in potential. And they say that Arsenal's got potential, but not much else. On the other hand, it doesn't take a genius to see that this is a very, very tight title race and Arsenal have a very good chance if they beat all the teams that they have run-ins with. All we'd need is that familiar phrase we heard quite a bit of last season, "1-0 to the Arsenal".

If you look at our results this season, you'd see that we've played quite well against all the teams, barring the rest of the Big Four. We've played exceptionally well against teams that are in the 1st half of the table, teams like Aston Villa.

Of the rest of the Big Four, we got bad results against Chelsea and Man United, but we got results agains Liverpool, doing the double over them. Our last 10 fixtures shouldn't pose a problem at all, and I'm relishing the Man City clash at home. Adebayor's gonna get his just desserts from the Arsenal faithful after running to the Arsenal fans and jeering after he scored in the reverse fixture.

Let's take a look at the others' fixtures, shall we. Chelsea've got Man United away, Tottenham away and Liverpool away. That leaves a little room for error. Them drawing at Old Trafford would sit nicely with Arsenal. Man United have the Chelsea fixture of course, then they've got Liverpool at home, Bolton away, Man City away and Tottenham at home. That's all gotta count for something atleast. Plus, Chelsea have have the FA Cup to worry about and Man United have AC Milan. But those two are minor factors, and these three teams fixture lists could have a see in this year's champion.

This year, it's all going to boil down to performance when it's most required. Whichever team can grind out the results in the last 10 games even when their not on the top of their game on the day, will win the league. Arsenal will have to be brutal, Arsenal will have to be precise and determined in order to steal the crown from the champions. We've already shown those qualities at different points of the season, now we'll have to show the strength and determination we displayed against Stoke last weekend. If we play well, I really do believe we have a big chance to win the first trophy since 2005.