Sir Alex has called this “The biggest game of our season so far”. Whether that was a subtle side-swipe at Manchester City, a call to his players to get their feet back onto the ground and remind them that we haven’t actually won anything yet or his genuine belief, it is hard to say but one thing is for sure, it is a massive game.

As things stand, we are level on games played with Arsenal and one point ahead. Chelsea are at the top of the table by one point but have a game in hand.

I am writing this a few hours before Chelsea kick off against Burnley and, in all honesty, it looks very much like we will go into the Arsenal game four points behind Chelsea.

Arsenal looked to be out of the title race about six weeks ago but a decent run of results and a bit of a wobbly period from both Chelsea and Manchester United and they have found themselves right back in the thick of it again.

A win for them tomorrow will put us under enormous pressure. A win for us would be the same for them.

The difference is, our next game is against Portsmouth at Old Trafford whilst Arsenal take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Their next game after Chelsea is Liverpool at The Emirates.

A tough sequence of fixtures for Arsenal and Wenger will no doubt see this period as crucial to their title bid.

Nine points from those three games and they could well be at the top of the League. No points and their League title bid could be all over.

Under normal circumstances, a point at The Emirates would be seen as a good result for us. We beat them there last season in the Champions League but that remains our only success at The Emirates. I think we have to go there with the ambition of taking all three points.

This would keep us hanging onto Chelsea’s tail but it could also have another knock-on effect that could benefit us…

Arsenal will know that they will probably need to do what few have achieved at Stamford Bridge in recent years and come away with all three points.

That will keep Arsenal in the chase but it would benefit us almost as much as them.

I was watching a Fergie press conference last week and he said that he felt that 82 points could be enough to win the title this season. I am not too sure about that at this stage.

Chelsea are currently on 51 points and have 16 games left to play. That is a potential 48 points which means that they could end on 99 points. This obviously is not going to happen but can you really see them dropping more than 17 points between now and the end of the season?

They have dropped just 15 points in 22 games so far and the early part of this season was remarkable simply because of the number of points the “top” teams dropped.

At this stage, I would be very surprised if Chelsea dropped 14 points between now and the end of the season (and even then I am assuming that we beat them and they draw in all the other games they have against the other top teams).

I put them on at least 85 points by the end of the season.

We need all the help we can get to overturn this (likely) 4 points gap. We need to beat them ourselves and we need to give the likes of Arsenal every reason to go there and beat them too.

A defeat for Arsenal tomorrow would give them every incentive to go on and give Chelsea the game of their lives.