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He said: “I think he (Wenger) always says this when he loses. When he loses he always finds an excuse. But football is not possession on the ball or playing nice passes.

“Good football is winning games and that’s what we do when we play against them. We deserved the win because we played very effectively. It was how we wanted to play before the game. It was our strategy. Maybe in the second half we concentrated a bit too much on defending but if you’re 2-0 up you can do this.

“For me, good football is a mix of winning, successful football, mental strength, good football technically and also physically. I think we have a good mix in the team and we have done this all season. We can’t do more - first in the table.

“We knew the way they would play. We saw it in the first game we played against them and in the way they played against Man United last week,” said Ballack. It is always the same style. If you get your tactics right like we did I think you can beat them. That’s what we did.”

For more scathing criticism read the Mail's story headlined 'We've heard it all before, Arsene: Arsenal's six years of Premier League heartbreak, despite Wenger's title talk'.

In the Times Matt Dickinson sharpened his pen for this assault on AW, the first few paragraphs of which are here...

Arsène Wenger can never exhaust his levels of credit in English football, but there are an increasing number of occasions, such as in the media room at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, when he seems determined to give it a damn good go.

Great admirers of “The Professor” actually found themselves shaking their heads in sorrow and dismay as they jotted down his latest unsustainable explanation for a damaging Arsenal setback. It was not that Wenger was making excuses for a defeat; every manager has done that since time began.

No, what increasingly distinguishes a Wenger tirade is the moralising tone. And while that was once acceptable, and justifiable, in the occasional outburst at roughhouse methods from Bolton Wanderers or Blackburn Rovers, it has now reached the point where Wenger risks becoming an unpopular parody of himself by preaching from on high.

Back in the Mirror Martin Lipton argues that our recent dip in form and fading title hopes could lead to Cesc Fabregas doing one back to Barca, read his bunkum here.

"We have to give everything until the last second of the championship, whatever happens. We can't have any regrets, and if Chelsea are better than us and win the title, or if it's Manchester United, then we will congratulate them along with everyone else.

"But that's not a reason for us to give up. We have to show the dignity of our ambitions and sometimes that means fighting until the end."