I just got round to watching the highlights of the way they took Burnley apart on Saturday – breathtaking.

Match report from GoonerTalk here.

If Arsenal go on to win the Premier League and Champions League, you’ll find no complaints from me.

I have watched Walcott for a number of years and there are no doubts he has strengths to his game. Well, he has one strength in particular: his terrific pace.

But why does he not use it more? Why does he not get more of the ball? You can only look at his movement and conclude it is not good enough.

He proved he can cross and deliver a ball against Burnley at the weekend. But why does he not do that consistently? I stand by my assessment that he doesn’t yet have a football brain.

My personal feeling is that Walcott hasn’t had the time to develop fully.  He lost a lot of games by moving to Arsenal when he should have been getting another 50 or 100 games under his belt at Southampton.  It’s amazing to think that he only made 21 appearances for the Saints.

Since then – four years and two months – he’s only started 38 games for the Gunners (less than a single Football League season).  Waddle goes on to call Wenger “one of the best teachers in the world”, but I can’t see how Walcott is going to develop if he doesn’t play many games.

Arsenal were inconsistent pushovers for the first few months. You can’t say Man Utd are strong in either attack, midfield, or defence. Chelsea looked invincible for a good while but have been stuck in second gear since Christmas.

Don’t get me wrong – relatively-speaking they’re better than the rest and deserve to be at the top. But you get the feeling that the league-winning side from any of the past 10 years would wipe the floor with this lot.

And yet…this season has been a real vintage. I’ve watched more games than I have for ages, as anyone can beat anyone.

Will the Premier League’s administrators learn anything from this. Say, that a closer level of team ability leads to better entgertainment? I shan’t be holding my breath.

They’re more likely to claim that their hands-off policy of letting market-force dictate is working. But that isn’t what is going on here. The rich teams are just having a bad year. Next year one of them will get their act together and win the league by 15 points and only lose once in the process.

But I won’t be watching.