;

Isn't Total Wipeout reality TV enough, or quiz shows for that matter? These are real people facing the metaphorical slings of padded powerful slaps in the face and elsewhere. Slithering through mud for that ultimate glory of winner and you know what I really love about the show. Nobody loses focus on the prize, on first place and that's what it's all about.

In football, you have to fill in the gaps for 9 months or so. How it happens, why it happens, oh dear grab your handbags the referee was a horror. Stuff like that.

Elsewhere on the X Factor, 50 more individuals who have heard singing for the past 5 years or so but with a different face and such pass through and Simon Cowell says in some form of active passive oratory - this person is the best singer he has ever heard and Louis Walsh agrees whilst smiling, Cheryl Cole (wife of Ashley Cole, ex-Arsenal left back) wipes a tear from her eyes or with all the knowledge, experience and wisdom of euro-pop songs written for them and sold with formation dancing - nods with a wry smile.

This is all that is missing from the world. From the higher heavens of LCD TV and HD; we have individuals sitting behind the desk (and all the metaphors it sends out in post-modern existence (usually of authority)) judging us and everybody at home screaming, acknowledge me, love me, attend to me.

How different is that to football?

You see, you have this cleverly edited footage where if somebody does something wrong, have a look at Fergie? Is he Angry? Cut to Fergie cam!!

But if Fergie was unwrapping a Wrigleys Spearmint gum, try cutting to Pat Rice, one of the subs or you can always count on Rooney to be rampaging around looking for an ASBO. Or that is what he would have been doing if he wasn't in football. I am sure he would have been in Media/TV land in some form or another had he not been in football and it may have been down to his time with old ladies.

So forgive me, please if I couldn't give a Wrigleys Spearmint Gum for all the hoo haas that occurred in the game today (yesterday). I've seen it all before. I can't seem to get excited about it anymore. As a team Arsenal have accomplished everything and here they are attempting to do it again. I really am beginning to think there is a gross futile essence to all of this bravado machismo nonsense we place in football.

Like Hooliganism/Thuggery for instance? Isn't the world interesting enough these days or not? This isn't some pomposity that I'm dictating at all. Hardly. There has to be something inately troublesome in somebody who has to resort to concocting drama and antagonism in their lives. Unfortunately we are fed it by the media, Sky Sports and yes, we tend to carry this into our lives and think it's part and parcel of life - so we may look for it.

This is why I can't care less. For me, we lost today and that's about it. I hope we win the next game :)

Reality, in the context of Reality TV, isn't as complex as the media world make out. It's about as simple as Total Wipeout for me. Basically, the world comes together, like the contestants on the show, they give it their best shot, they get knocked down and brush it off, feel sorry for themselves a little and get back to doing it again and hoping to do better and if they don't, it doesn't matter.

Of course people do try and make life harder for themselves in order to make it far more interesting, I could literally go on and on about that, from Religion to Politics etc but does anybody really care.

I do think Arshavin is absolutely brilliant though. Such a majestic player. We should buy another player like him, with experience.

Then again, if we don't - it doesn't matter. Somebody has to lose. It might as well be us.