Typical, isn't it? The Arsenal can go out and beat Newcastle, Liverpool and Chelsea in back to back contests yet when faced with the likes of Fulham and Leicester in a similar sequence beating them proves beyond us.
Why did we fail to win the game at the Walkers Bowl? Was it because we didn't have Vieira or Henry available? Was it because we had one eye on the forthcoming Champions League game? Or was it because we were reduced to ten for the last twenty minutes? The answer is NONE of the above because the truth is that we were not bloody good enough on the day.
Arsenal had only themselves to blame for tossing away two points for the second week running. Sure, the Foxes got their equaliser with the last kick of the game but on the evidence of what I was listening to on the radio, I honestly thought that they deserved it.
As sections of the press went on to gleefully point out in the Sunday papers the Arsenal were guilty of throwing away a lead in no less than 11 league matches last season and now we have gone and done it again.
It's not easy for me to concur with what the press say about us in general but, whether it was by design or not, I have to admit that on this occasion their point was indeed a pertinent one.
From my perspective, Saturday's match was indeed so reminiscent of so many away matches last season. In fact, to be more accurate it was reminiscent of the game against Villa at their place last April.
Similar to that day, the Arsenal spent the best part of the first hour waiting for each other to make something happen. We struggled to put together anything meaningful offensively yet as soon as we did on the hour mark, BANG! We were one up.
Though we played better in general after the goal, the fact is we never really looked like killing Leicester off and that was partly why Wenger elected to throw Martin Keown on as late sub "to shore things up at the back".
However, we do not have the defence that we once did and as has been proved in the recent past, 1-0 leads are not necessarily enough for us particularly away from home.
We were up against a team that were up for the fray and played to their strengths all afternoon. Saturday was the sort of day on which we had to be 100% focussed, a day when we had to earn the right to play but in both respects we came up to short. Not good, not good at all.
This brings me nicely round to the subject of a certain Ashley Cole. I will tell you all this for nothing - I am bloody furious with him.
The Arsenal have had players sent off purely through blatant (and indeed scandalous) prejudice in the past but Cole's tackle on Ben Thatcher was an absolute disgrace.
I know that things happen in the heat of the moment in football but what angers me most is that he has been around long enough to know that the press and the media do not need an excuse to mark the card of Arsenal Football Club.
If I were Arsene Wenger then Cole would have been given the mother and father of all rollockings by now. He needs to get a grip does young Cole and the sooner the better.
Still the good thing is that both Cole and the rest of the team will have a chance to quickly redeem themselves on Wednesday against Lokomotiv Moscow.
The Russians will take to the pitch at Highbury sitting proudly at the top of our Champions League group and to be fair to them I don't think they are there by accident.
Lokomotiv have only tasted defeat once so far and that was at the hands of Dynamo Kiev on the opening day. The Russians gained revenge (albeit with a touch of fortune) on their Ukrainian neighbours last time out beating them 3-2 in a barnstorming contest.
Lokomotiv have also taken four points from Inter Milan, a bigger return than either Arsenal or Dynamo Kiev (regardless of what happens in the Ukraine tomorrow) will have managed by the time the group phase is over. So their credentials are pretty much there for all to see.
I think that Lokomotiv are a throwback to the old Soviet sides of the past. They have excellent technique, they know how to keep hold of possession and they will be extremely disciplined.
Given that the onus if very much on us to win I think that the game will be fairly similar to the Kiev game - a cat and mouse affair. We may have to be patient but above all we MUST not panic.
As for the burning question of whether Henry will play, well, I'm not going to say that his absence wouldn't be significant but whether he does play or he doesn't, I think that there are more than a few players in the Arsenal ranks that have a point to prove in the light of Saturday's fiasco.
Ultimately, we have done wonders just to get ourselves into the position we're in. We need to make sure that we do not waste it.