IT came so early this year, I was caught completely unawares – forced to dash to the shops in the middle of Sunday lunch.

If you are only getting your Happy Invicibles Day card from me today, then blame the post if you must but also blame the so-called greats of the modern game. You may hear about the wonderful Mo Salah and Arne Slot’s first season title winners. You may also hear about Lampard, Drogba, Hazard and whoever at Chelsea. Fergie too – with all the class of 92. And the synthetic champions of recent times, the money-built monsters of Manchester City.

Oh how they brag about apparently being the best of all time, but here we are again. Those clubs are distinctly, um… vincible. They can’t even do two months unbeaten. The pumpkin lanterns of Halloween have yet to be lit, the rockets of Guy Fawkes are still in the tin and already we know that Arsene Wenger’s Premier League winners of 2004 will not be matched. It is an impossible dream for all the pretenders mentioned.

There is a reason why only one team has a gold winners’ trophy in the cabinet, and only one team can claim to be the best Premier League team of all time. That’s the Arsenal team, as the commentary goes, travelled the length and breadth of this land and played 38 games, won 26, drew 12 and famously, indelibly lost not one.

You can write in and tell me how great the United treble was or some other blah blah thing, but what we have seen over the past few weeks has simply illustrated the scale of the defeatless achievement.

The season has only just started and they’ve all lost, and somehow we are supposed to believe Liverpool, City, Chelsea, whoever could travel through autumn, spring and the start of summer and not lose a match. Never!

It’s a simple fact, Arsenal’s Invincibles won’t be bettered. Happy Invincibles Day to you all.

• YOU get the impression there is a wonderful pettiness behind Arsenal’s plans to make the Emirates Stadium bigger. We hear that it is to help more people see the matches and increase club revenue, but would it be wrong in thinking that Tottenham building a slightly bigger stadium up the road has motivated minds? Any reader of this column for the last 20 years knows football fans never grow up.