IN September 1962, the then US president John F Kennedy delivered a famous speech in which he declared: “We choose to go to the Moon.”

He wanted Americans to be supportive of the Moonshot era – when every day and lots of government resources would be spent on cracking the new frontier of space.

JFK didn’t live to see it but in 1969 – decades before anybody had even got onto inventing more important tech like air fryers, tamagotchis or TikTok – the dream was achieved. With pre-Acorn Electron computers, they somehow rocketed Neil Armstrong through the galaxy and off he went for trot across the Moon’s craters. See what can happen, if you just start now.

With collective effort of this kind and a determination to succeed, the 19 Premier League teams that are not Arsenal should embark on their own Moonshot mission.

Yes, get every man and woman available in the labs and research through the long winter nights if you have to. They need Britain’s brightest brains on this one. Do this and within 10 years, it will be possible to find a way to stop Arsenal from scoring from set pieces. I jest, it may not take that long, but how astonishing is it that – despite their being video records of every goal Arsenal score from a corner – nobody seems to work out how to stop a ball being kicked from the side of the pitch and then headed into the goal?

I’d love to heap endless praise on the set-piece coaches of this world, but it’s surely not rocket science (an expertise, btw too often confused with brain science and rocket surgery).

Surely in the whole of English football, there is at least one coach who has worked out what’s going. Just one would do. Just one.

In fact, given the same thing is happening in the Champions League too, we could expand the talent search for a soccer scientist who can crack the baffling Enigma code here.

Until then, don’t hate on Arsenal for scoring the same goal every weekend.

When you leave a stadium with your team at the top of the league, accusations of being Set Piece FC seem rather pitiful if anything.

If it’s that crude, surely one of you can work out how to stop it happening. Shoot for the Moon.