Nervous before the game? yep you bet, it had all the hallmarks for an upset this game, no team who had won the FA Cup had been relegated, it was Wigan who we have struggled against recently and who had won at The Grove, Chelsea and Spuds keep getting late winners all the time,Wigan turned us around and made us KO in the opposite direction kicking towards the North Bank in the fiost half, i mean everybody knows we always kick the other way first half dont they? and finally the main reason why we were not going to win was because we had Mike Dean as referee.

Mike dean aka Son of Satan had been in charge for us many times before and we have won only 1 game out of 15, and he never let us down yesterday either with his awful decision making process by awarding free kick for fouls that even Stevie Wonder could see were not and not awarding free kicks for blatant fouls and this is what happened last night when he gave a free kick to Wigan that led to their equaliser and sent The Grove into panic mode.

Up until that point we were going very nicely indeed, we pressured Wigan and they didn’t know how to respond at all.

We created chance after chance and finally took the lead with a fine header from The Pod.

The problem we had was Mike Dean, you can make plans for anything in a game of football, but the one unknown factor is the referee and his assistants and how they interpret the game, and Mike Dean does not have a bloody clue when it comes to Arsenal.

So we did finally get the win and now all focus in on Newcastle away this Sunday, bring it on and with the return of Giroud and the form that Theo showed last night, we will give it a good go.

Report from the web. FA Cup winners Wigan were relegated from the Premier League as Arsenal moved up into the top four with an emphatic 4-1 win at the Emirates Stadium.

It was always going to be a big ask for the Latics to lift themselves for such a huge game just 72 hours after their glorious Wembley victory over Manchester City and so it proved.

Lukas Podolski nodded the Gunners in front after 11 minutes but Shaun Maloney gave the visitors hope when he crashed home a free-kick on the stroke of half-time.

However, three goals in the space of eight minutes just after the hour from Theo Walcott, Podolski and Aaron Ramsey meant there was to be no fairytale ending for Roberto Martinez's men, despite another brave crack at the Great Escape.

This day was supposed to be the day we showed RvP that he had made a mistake by joining Manchester United but unfortunately it never worked out that way, it was more of why Arsenal were stupid to sell him as he was the exact thing that we required for this match, had RvP played for Arsenal in this game, we would have won in no doubt at all.

I hope these dropped points are not the points that we would have accumulated had he still been a Gooner and that we still qualify for the champions League, if we don’t, the £24m will seem peanuts in comparison, had we kept RvP we would have already qualified for Champions League, and who knows from there when you take the points away from United the he made for them, maybe Champions?

Robin Van Persie earned a point for Premier League champions Manchester United in a 1-1 draw on his return to Arsenal.

The former Gunners captain received the expected hot reception as soon as he stepped out at the Emirates Stadium for a guard of honour.

It was, though, Arsenal - without suspended forward Olivier Giroud - who raced into the lead as Theo Walcott beat the offside trap to fire the hosts ahead inside two minutes.

However, despite enduring plenty of cheers from the home support as passions continued to run high in the wake of his controversial move to Old Trafford last summer, Van Persie kept his cool to equalise from the spot just before half-time after being brought down by Bacary Sagna.

Neither side, though, was able to press on and claim all three points, with a draw seeing Arsenal drop into fourth place, but still two points ahead of Tottenham, albeit having played a match more in the race for Champions League qualification.

A chorus of boos greeted Van Persie as he emerged from the tunnel. Those jeers, however, were soon replaced by raucous celebration as Walcott swept the hosts ahead.

Arsenal countered quickly as the ball was worked up field to Tomas Rosicky who released Walcott down the right. The England forward was at best in line with United full-back Patrice Evra, but needed no second invitation as he raced on into the penalty area before slotting under David De Gea.

Arsenal remained on the offensive, with the United goalkeeper again called into action to beat away Santi Carzola's curling 20-yard effort.

United threatened on the break as Phil Jones sprinted the whole length of the pitch to arrive at pace in the Arsenal box as Van Persie floated over a superb cross - but could only plant his downward header wide.