No, it's the return on investment ratios. You bet £100 on Chelsea, you win £160 if they win the title.

If you'd calculate the odds the way Spigy did, they'd be over 100% that way. And that just means that the betting company has a big profit margin. If the odds of all teams combined being able to win the title was exactly 100%, the betting companies would be 'fair' and therefore lose money.

I don't know how the game looked through cameras and TV screens but it was really quite slow live. Most of the action took place in the middle third of the pitch as neither team afforded the other much time or space near their own goal.

Chelsea were understandably a much tougher prospect than Lyon or Wolfsburg the other week, so we didn't manage to create much going forward. On the other hand, we restricted their ability to create anything very well. I can't recall that Cech was really tested in that first half. Coquelin, Ramsey and Santi were excellent at recovering and recycling possession in midfield.

I'll say very little about the goal, it was a lovely driven strike with his weaker foot that found the top corner. Needless to say we all went mental when it went in :D

Both sides were a bit sloppy in possession at times and feel that we will see better performances from both teams in the coming season. That said, Koscielny is a class above. I watched him specifically and his awareness of where the opposition was is brilliant. He is so alert and his ability to react to potential danger so quickly is a massive confidence booster.

To top it off, as we were leaving the stadium at the end of the game we found Moh being interviewed for Arsenal Fan TV. So I stopped to have a listen and shared a quick word with him after his interview :)

I think the football we played today is the football that Wenger likes to play. Solid defense, and then a quick, counter attacking football. Granted times have changed since the Invincibles era, and players are now more technical especially in midfield.

To be honest, I felt Chelsea were the slightly better team, but we scored first, and goals change games. The game plan fell perfectly into Wenger's hands once we scored first.

I was also surprised by the intensity of the game. Both teams showed up, and played at probably 95% of their full capacity. Both sides missing a key player and fitness levels probably a bit low, but I'm liking the balance in the Arsenal team and hopefully it'll be a nice long battle with Chelsea this season.

The worry remains for me that we don't have proper backup for Coquelin, and we missed Wilshere's runs and ability to create space a little bit so it'd still be nice to get a cover at DM/CM but (knock on wood) a little favor from the injury gods will get us going well.

Yea I saw an interview with wenger where he said the team he most admired was that barca team, he said the most impressive team he's ever seen. He also said early on at arsenal pep (while still a player at barca) actually met with him and told him he'd like to play for him and asked for a transfer but wenger told him he couldn't guarantee he would dislodge Vierra in the midfield. I'll see if I can find that interview

Chelsea’s José Mourinho has suggested he would drive himself to distraction in the search for a solution if he experienced a winless run such as that which Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger has endured against him

Arsène Wenger spent the off-season working at Arsenal’s training ground instead of on holiday and before Sunday’s curtain-raiser with Chelsea believes this is possibly his best side since the Invincibles of 2003-04