The travels of Tim and Megan: Arsenal v Wigan Athletic

With Megan away in Paris for the weekend, I decided to give something back to the community by heading to the park across the road to support the local football team. Turns out they're pretty good. It was a cracking day for football and the local park was looking picture perfect. Through a stroke of luck, I ended up sitting four rows behind the Arsenal bench, right on halfway. So close you could smell the grass and hear the multitude of foreign languages jibbering away on the bench.

Arsenal made a cracking start to the new premier league season, beating Everton away 6-1 and Portsmouth at home 4-1. Unfortunately then things took a turn for the worse in Manchester, as we outplayed, but lost to, the champions Manchester United and then had an off day against a sharp Manchester City side. It was important to bounce back today, and bounce back we did - with a thumping 4-0 demolition of Wigan.

New summer signing, centre-back Thomas Vermaelen, rose majestically and headed in the first goal from a corner before Arsenal wasted three more good chances to score in the first half. In the second half Vermaelen decided defending was boring, so he came forward, controlled the ball on halfway, played a one-two with Eboue and then curled in a brilliant shot from outside the box that even the great Thierry Henry would have been proud of. Two more goals followed as the Gunners ran riot. Wigan never really turned up - then again, neither did their fans with the away section looking embarrassingly empty.

Alex Song played really well in midfield and Vermaelen was absolute class at the back. He has already made our defence look stronger and more confident than in past seasons. If we are to challenge for the title this season, our defence will be the key, as scoring goals has never been a problem.