Beautiful, beautiful football

Well, that was very pleasing on the eye.

Arsenal ran out 4-0 winners on Sunday in what many had thought would be a tough game in the Royal county of Berkshire against a solid Reading side who had caused both Man Yoo and Chelski problems at the Madjeski. In contrast, we blew them away.

Now don't get me wrong, I quite like Reading, I really hope they stay up and I think they will, but on Sunday we made them look very, very ordinary. We were superb, our passing and timing sublime, and at times our movement was just mesmeric.

Of all our players I'd say Cesc was the best on the pitch, and it's really scary when you have to keep reminding yourself that the kid's just turned 19. I honestly can't imagine how good he's going to be in his mid-20s. Paul Merson was doing punditry for Sky on the game and said that, in his opinion, Cesc is going to be the best player in the world before long. Lionel Messi might have something to say about that, but certainly in that central midfield position I can't imagine that there's going to be another player who can touch him. Some of his passing was masterful, his composure under pressure was awe-inspiring, and his vision was just top drawer. Bravo, Senor Soler, bravo.

Another player who put in a cracking performance was my namesake, Tomas Rosicky. I'm thinking of spelling my name like that from now on. Every time I watch this guy play I take to him a little more. he's just such a good player, he's got a great range of passing, vision, touch, awareness and, although it deserted him to some extent on Sunday, a belting shot on him. He was at the centre of everything along with Fabregas and really dictated some great play. His ball for Hleb's goal was masterful.

Speaking of Aleksandr, he didn't have a half bad game himself, and this leap of celebration with Rosicky was entertaining of itself. He took his goal very well and did fantastically to set up RvP, who had a poor game all round, wasting posession and shooting very poorly when given the opportunity. However he really couldn't miss after Hleb exchanged a neat one two with TH14, took a lovely touch to go past the defender and then neatly pulled the ball back to allow van Persie to stroke him.

All this blogging and not even a mention of Thierry's two goals. Both were created by Fabregas, the first after Fabregas, put in by Hleb went to the byline and pulled back for Henry to execute an exquisitely cushioned finish. The second was a penalty won by Cesc after he ran on to a Thierry through ball. TH14 scored off the right-hand post.

We took our foot off the gas in the last 20 minutes and really lost any shape we had, with apparently no one playing up front, with Thierry and the subbed on Adebayor mixing it in midfield, which made it difficult for any of our substitutes to have an impact, particularly Young Theo Walcott, who would probably have liked to have had the opportunity to do something in a game in his home county, with his whole family looking on.

One sub who did make an impact was Alex Song. Seriously, if I was Flim Flam, or any other player who could fill that central role, I would be livid that this joker was getting a game ahead of me. In the 15 minutes he was on the pitch he made so many errors of touch and judgement they could have filled a whole 90 minutes. Why Wenger persists with him I do not know. I hope sometime soon it becomes apparent to me, and every other Arsenal fan.

A good result, 3 points away at home which is more than most teams will get from a trip to the Madjeski and now a nice rest for the first team, with League cup action midweek.