THE general consensus following Liverpool FC's win at the Emirates on Saturday seems to be that we shouldn’t get too carried away with grabbing our first victory at Arsenal since 2000.

Well, as someone who has seen each and every failure since Titi Camara ran through to clip the ball past David Seaman, walking across the Danny Fiszman Bridge after the match felt pretty damn good I can tell you.

Dirk Kuyt’s late equaliser last season was about as good as it got in the previous 11 years; but the joy as Luis Suarez sealed this win was savoured as much for the sheer novelty of it as for the welcome three points following the disappointment of the season opener.

That feeling of smug superiority as you wind your way out through the home support has been sadly elusive at Highbury and then the Emirates for too long.

Okay, time for rational analysis to replace rampant chauvinism. In truth a failure to win this game against an Arsenal side seriously depleted by injury, suspension and people clearing off to Spain would have been a considerable missed opportunity.

Seldom have we come under so little pressure at this ground, but it still took a richly deserved dismissal and our resultant substitutions to provide the spark which left the home defence in flames. It’s fair to say that the ceiling of the Clock End took a battering from some severely raised eyebrows when it was announced that Kuyt had been restored to the side not, as expected, for Henderson but in place of Suarez.