They say when you fall off a horse you should immediately get back up on the horse so you don't suffer a lack of confidence in your general horsing. This might be a useful analogy for Arsenal after what happened on Wednesday night in Manchester, but the the reality is we never properly got on the horse in order to fall off it. We threw a leg over, bedeviled our groin in doing so, and slid to the ground, stunned if not completely KOd. Not only that, the horse was more of a sad, bockety mule than a thoroughbred stallion, so the fall wasn't particularly hard. Which is a really clumsy way of saying that the defeat to Man City is pretty easy to compartmentalise. As Mikel Arteta said, this is...
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