But current situation had eliminated all this rubbish accusation and we are well close behind the leader.
It's time to move on and tonight match against City will see the beginning of a two horse race for the championship.
Tonight's win will send us to the second spot with a game in hand against City.
When ever Arsenal faced City in the premier league, I used to remember about Emmanuel Adebayor and who had his best goal scoring record while with Arsenal and as well with Kolo Toure.
Adebayor move to City for £25m on July, 2009 and a week after that he had sparks controversial statement where his decision to leave Arsenal was because of his poor relationship with the club's fans.
"The way the fans behaved towards me was not nice at all," he said. "I can't understand why they were after me. I did my best for them and I was very happy there.
"I scored 30 goals in a season - it's not my fault that Milan, Barcelona or Real Madrid wanted to sign me. In any summer, Barcelona try to sign Cesc Fábregas. But the fans never turned on him." - source : guardian.co.uk
But the actual reason for him to leave is because he wanted to, secondly Arsenal need the fund and he has been chosen to leave.
"[My agent] didn't really say why they wanted to sell me but I found out that they need the money and someone had to leave – that was me.
"Wenger put me where I am today but he cannot stand up and say last summer I told him I wanted to leave. I told him I wanted to stay. I don't think our relationship is broken. I think they need the money and need to sell someone."
"They chose me and they got their money. I hope they spend it quite well and go forward. I send them all my regards." - source : guardian.co.uk
Soon after that Kolo Toure following from behind to join him at the Eastland and City paid £15m for him.
Both of them had a good season for years with Arsenal but recently news about another bust up between these two was circulating in the net.
It's quite weird to hear about this story since both of them been together for so long.
Picture of Adebayor and Toure Bust Up.
The flashpoint was a tackle, to which Adebayor is thought to have reacted. I don't see it's just about the tackle if both of them started to fight.
It was claimed a jibe from Toure, telling Adebayor the sooner he left City the better, after the out-of-favour striker’s lunging tackle was the cause of the bust-up. - source : mirrorfootball.co.uk
Plenty of perceptions and even speculations related to City players where the same event had occurred for couples of times.
They might look having a great players but lack of respect and discipline with each others had been haunting Mancini for quite sometimes.
Can they win the title with such problem keep on repeating, furthermore it takes a team to win the title.
With such another latest outburst incident, it is clearly City will face the problem in the field and that is one of the factor for causing there up and down performance.
Our preparation for the game tonight must be so interesting especially after Nasri has been voted for EA SPORTS Player of the Month for December, 2010 and welcoming back Ramsey with us on Wednesday.
The chances for Nasri to strike again in this match was very high and he is at his best forms.
Beside from that we had all our players available excepts for Gibbs who has been out since injuring his ankle against Partizan Belgrade, Manuel Almunia (ankle), Abou Diaby (calf) and Thomas Vermaelen (Achilles) remain sidelined through injury.
We will see another great line up where I am expecting such squad as below's :
Szczesny
Sagna - Djourou - Koscielny - Clichy
Song - Wilshere
Walcott - Fabregas - Nasri - Van Persie
With Silva and Balotelli out with injury, their home sicked Tevez once again will lead the charge for City along side with Yaya Toure at the center midfield.
This will be another hard day for Tevez as our boys will try to keep him away from the ball.
City will be trying their best to win for the first time, they have not beaten the Gunners in London since a 3-2 win back in October 1975.
We are not relying on that record, since we had the best players who had at their best forms for now and well organized team to play.
City will be so eager to beat us in order to stay behind MU and keep their track as their high intention to win the premier league title.
But Mancini problems had never been settled out since he runs for City and their internal problems had been affected most of their results, which preventing them from being competitive to stay firm with their position in the league table.
Arsenal need to win this game so that we can wiped out City trail from chasing us for all this while and with one game in hand we could leave them behind with 5 points.
We are in good position now to lead the way where Chelsea is well placed with 4 points adrift from us and Spurs trailing closely with 36 points at fourth place.
Furthermore Chelsea away game to Wolverhampton will once again test their capability to compete with us, while Everton had a good sense that they will win tonight against Spurs.
It's up for the gunners to make a run by killing off City ambition with great win to be expected tonight. I would go for Arsenal to win 3 - 0 if Szczesny is playing and 3 - 2 goes for Fabiansky.
