Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger thinks it is too early to tell whether his team will win the Premier League title but is convinced his players have the right attitude to do so. Arsenal have seven-point lead over Manchester United with 12 league matches remaining and would extend their unbeaten run from the start of the season to 27 games with victory over Charlton Athletic on Saturday.“When you win a championship, usually when there is five or six games to go, you know,” the Frenchman told reporters on Friday. “There is a ‘click’ that tells you that the players believe they can do it. But not with 12 games to go, that is to far.”Wenger knows from bitter experience how easily a substantial lead can disappear, as happened last season when United came from eight points behind in March to win the title.“When you are second or third you have nothing to lose, you just go for it and hope the team in front of you lose one or two big games, but when you are in front that you have the confidence that you are relying on yourselves,” he said. “I don’t know if we will win it or not, I’m confident that the attitude of my players will be right and that makes me positive and optimistic. But you never know in football you can have a player sent off in a big game, you can have two injuries tomorrow morning.“What you can take care of and what is important to be successful is the attitude and the spirit of the players and I’m convinced that that will be right.”“Team spirit is a bit like the English weather, very quickly changeable and not to be taken for granted .. but I believe there is no better ingredient for team spirit than winning games,” he added. Things could hardly be going better for Arsenal.But Wenger dismissed talk of doubles, trebles and whether his team are the best in the world.“We’ve won nothing,” he said “You can only judge teams on what they have achieved. The players are, like me, conscious that we have won nothing and that it is all in front of us. But we are in a good position and they want to take advantage of it.”That starts again on Saturday, exactly 300 days after Arsenal last lost in the Premier League, when fifth-placed Charlton visit Highbury.“They (Charlton) have achieved, with less potential, what we have,” Wenger said. “They have a stable squad, a stable manager and for them to get into the Champions League would be like any other team winning the championship.”(Reuters)
