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"So you think Arsenal can do the Treble?"

I was looking at the fixture list earlier, and it's a nightmare. I'll be happy if we come out of it with one trophy, let alone three!

I don't think it's going to be a problem with ability, but tiredness - and potentially, therefore, injury - could play a major part.

March
Sat 20th - H - Bolton - Premiership
Wed 24th - A - Chelsea - Champion's League Quarter Final 1st leg
Sun 28th - H - Man Utd - Premiership

April (a killer month)
Sat 3rd - N - Man Utd - FA Cup Semi Final
Tue 6th - H - Chelsea - Champion's League Quarter Final 2nd leg
Sat 10th - H - Liverpool - Premiership
Mon 12th - A - Newcastle - Premiership
Fri 16th - H - Leeds - Premiership
Tue/Wed 20th/21st - possible Champion's League Semi Final 1st leg
Sat 24th - A - Spurs - Premiership

May (a little easier)
Sat 1st - H - Birmingham - Premiership
Tue/Wed 4th/5th - possible Champion's League Semi Final 2nd leg
Sat 8th - A - Fulham - Premiership
Sat 15th - H - Leicester - Premiership
Sat 22nd - possible FA Cup Final
Wed 26th - possible Champion's League Final


PLUS we also have a postponed away game with Portsmouth to be slotted in there somewhere, and I've no doubt the FA will manage to choose the most inconvenient date that they possibly can! Right now, they're probably pondering whether they could get away with scheduling on Sunday 11th April, right between Liverpool on the 10th and Newcastle on the 12th!

The only plus-point I can think of is that we got Chelsea in the Champion's League; the lack of required travelling may be a small help to us.

April could be make-or-break for the whole season, and we might well need all of that 9-point cushion.

Nothing's over yet, whatever the press may say.

So, fellow Gooners... still feeling confident? :-)

er arsenal won today! unitedlegend! united can't catch them. they are 15 points behinf with a game in hand. that requires arsenal to LOSE 4 matches out of 7 which just isn't going to happen! and man utd to win all 8 of theresjust to draw level! impossible. Chelsea have a slight chance with arrse having to lose 2 and draw one to overtake them. I think newcastle might get a point of them and my big prediction is leeds to beat them, but i can't see the trophy going anywhere bar highbury really.

yeah but this all might shake arsenal's spirit and cause them to lose the next few matches reducing Chelseas and Uniteds gap making quite a last minute battle

I wouldn't write off Chelsea quite yet. I haven't written off Manchester United either but I do not believe they will win the league.

man utd can't win the league. Fact. chelsea are unlikely to catch em. United are to far back

Now that they are out of the FA Cup and the Champions league but the question is will this rock the rest of the season and let by Chelsea and Man Utd (the great ones) past them preventing them winning anything, which would be nice to see after all of Wenger's gloating. I'm sure that everybody that doesn't support Arsenal all wants Arsenal's opponents to beat them.

Will they win anything?

Nah, I can't see them doing the treble.

No, we're 12 points ahead of United. Only 9 ahead of Chelsea!

Well, you are 12 points-clear of Chelski, you know...

You can AFFORD to drop some points!

:P

It's not so much the fixture pile-up itself, it's the teams involved - one after another.

Chelsea, ManYoo, ManYoo, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Spurs.

We may have good records against them all recently, but they're all (potentially at least) very tough games. And all in less than four weeks.

Maybe if there were a couple of games against Wolves and Leicester in there, I might not be so cautious!