Now THAT'S how you fuckin' do it!

Never thought I'd say this: but goddamn, you gotta love Inter Milan and Jose Mourinho. Sat down to watch the game hoping that Inter would do the damned deed Bartha over, and I emerged 90 minutes later with the world all that clearer for me.

Made them look rather ordinary, would you not say? Messi? God himself? Jesus reincarnated? Well, looks like you don't need much more than belief and graft to deal with the extra-terrestrial likes of Messi and Co. Inter were indeed special, but special not in the "special" way of how everyone oohs and aahs about Bartha, but special in the way they worked their socks off for 90 minutes. I don't think I'd seen a harder-working performance from any time in recent times.

So while our Arses were gushing about Bartha about the 4-1 buggering, about how we'd lost to the better team, about how there was no shame in losing to the likes of Messi and Co., well, Inter showed just how easy winning could actually be. You don't need Xavis, Messis, Iniestas, or even Ibrahimovic'es. You need a good, solid work ethic from the likes of Lucio, Zanetti and Maicon. So while for short glimpses at the Nou Camp we did manage to replicate the work rate - the relentless harrying, it was far far short of what was needed. What we needed after losing 4-1 to Bartha was someone, anyone to have said, "Shit. They were good, but we made them look good. We had our work cut out for us, and we just didn't deliver. We may have tried, but perhaps not everyone tried their best."

It was a rather sobering experience then, watching Inter Milan make Bartha look ordinary, two days after we had been buggered again in the last 10 minutes by a piddling, bottom-of-the-table Wigan Athletic. If each and every one of our squad had also watched the game, they might as well have been watching tall blue aliens managed by James Cameron. That's how far away we are from those standards of work and professionalism. Shit. It hurts. To know that right there at the top of the pile in Europe, we're currently light years away.

Where do we stand then? As I've said, this team, this club needs a fresh injection of something. Anything. Looking at the likes of Mourinho and Guardiola, I must admit Wenger looks increasingly behind the curve. Perhaps, even with Man U looking beyond Sir (again!), it's about time we do the same. Let's face it. It ain't working now.