FERGIE AHEAD OF TODAY'S GAME

Last updated : 09 April 2006 By Ed

"This is a major opportunity for us.

"Chelsea have dropped points and when your form starts to go in April, it is not easy to get it back. It is not liking turning the gas on and off.

"Chelsea are still in the driving seat but the situation is not quite so settled as it once seemed. If we can beat Arsenal, I think we will be difficult to live with.

"Indeed, I would go as far as to say that if we can beat Arsenal I believe we are capable of going all the way. We will see what Chelsea are made of on the last lap, especially when we go to Stamford Bridge almost on the finishing line.

"I go back to 1992. In one week we lost three matches and drew one. A collapse like that was hard to take. We lost a goal in the last five minutes to Luton on the Saturday. We went to Nottingham Forest on the Monday, lost 2-1, lost at West Ham on the Wednesday and then went to Liverpool. It was the Forest game on the Monday that really killed us.

"You could feel it going, because Bryan Robson was injured and so were Mike Phelan and Paul Ince. We got Robbo back at Anfield, but he wasn't anywhere near 100 per cent fit. Our form had gone. We were clinging on to a lead and our whole season was blowing up. It wasn't easy that. Whether Chelsea can handle it I don't know.

"I still have I this terrific hunger to win the League. I have no idea why, but in that respect absolutely nothing has changed with me."