After Arsenal's 3-1 defeat to Bolton, manager Arsène Wenger says that his side had fallen too far behind the Premiership title race to be considered title contenders.

Speaking to Premiership Plus, Wenger said: "We are too far behind.

"If you look at the number of points we have dropped and the way we have played it is really difficult to take.

"You feel on one hand there is a lot of quality in the side, but on the other hand we cannot transform that into points, so it is very disappointing to be such a long way behind because I feel we have a good chance to play with the top teams."

Wenger was nonetheless proud of his side, saying that they showed character and refus

It was Fabregas and Gilberto against Bolton. As we know, in any football match, two men (or a man and a boy) cannot beat another team. This was the worst Arsenal first half performance I have ever witnessed.

The early goal sunk them a bit but I expected that after the Hamburg game, it would have had the opposite effect. It didn't help that the starting line-up stunk!

Manchester United have balls, Chelsea have experience and Arsenal have skill. Manchester United also has some skill and experience and Chelsea also have some skills and balls.

Arsenal have very little of the other two characteristics and our position in the table proves it. Our exper