And big games in general. Arsenal just start so slowly in big games compared to other matches. It must result from Arsene's instructions. You would think Jose's windups would fire Arsenal up a little: "It is not possible to have 1,000 matches unless the club is also a fantastic club in the way they support their manager, especially in the bad moments and especially when the bad moments were quite a lot," he said.
With the petty bickering between the 2 this season, this result really would have hurt Wenger, he would not have wanted Mourinho to get one over him again. Arsenal brought it all on there selves though with there slow start, and dreadful defending. Once they where down to 10 though, there was no hope for Arsenal to fight back and make a game of things