Arsene Wenger's side proved too good as they moved to second in the Premier League

Preamble Good evening everyone for what - tempting fate alert - will be a monumental goal-fest at Molineux. The stats certainly point that way, with Arsenal having kept only four clean sheets in their last 19 away matches and Wolves having scored in 15 of their previous 19 home games. It's no surprise that Arsenal are new-boiler-hot favourites: they've scored 19 goals in their last six games, collecting 16 out of 18 points in the process, while Wolves are winless in five. What's more, Wolves haven't beat Arsenal at Molineux for 30 years.

Teams:

Wolves: Hennessey, Stearman, Craddock, Berra, Zubar, Edwards, Henry, Milijas, Catillo, Ebanks-Blake, Doyle. Subs: Hahnemann, Mancienne, Kightly, Halford, Jarvis, Keogh, Maierhofer.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Gibbs, Diaby, Fabregas, Ramsey, Arshavin, Eduardo, Van Persie. Subs: Mannone, Senderos, Silvestre, Eboue, Rosicky, Nasri, Song Billong.

An email: "I see Liverpool are out to 25-1 to the Premier League," says Richard Cox. "I know it's wrong, but I'm tempted, I really am. Anyone else?" Well?

5.30pm Both teams, who have poppies embedding in their shirts, enter the pitch to a guard of honour performed by RAF servicemen. If you haven't read it, here's Marina Hyde on why the vitriolic campaign to bully all Premier League clubs into wearing a poppy on their shirts shames the memory of the fallen.

1 min After an impeccably-observed minute's silence, ahead of Remembrance Sunday tomorrow, Wolves get things underway. Meanwhile there's more unbridled optimism in my inbox. "If Wolves win 14-0 or more, Tottenham go third!" says Joe Gibson.

2 min Ten seconds in and Mick McCarthy is already scowling after Wolves' thump it out on the full from the kick off. Interestingly (ish) Wolves have made their pitch as narrow as it can possibly be under Fifa regulations in an attempt to squeeze Arsenal.

4 min It's been a lively start on and off the pitch. Wolves fans are singing "In-ger-land, In-ger-land!" at Arsenal supporters. Ah, that famed black country wit ...

6 min Corner to Wolves, Doyle flicks it goalwards and Gibbs heads off the line!

7 min Actually, looking at the replay Doyle's header was going wide. Meanwhile Shammi Hude asks viz a viz the lack of autorefresh option (which should now be fixed): "Are your technical gremlins haunting you again or is it my dodgy internet connection in Dhaka? You lot should really think of getting in a Bangladeshi IT support crew ... will work 24-7 with no holidays for a couple of quid an hour (in cash)." We're the Guardian, Shammi, not [insert multinational of choice here].

9 min More decent play from Wolves leads to another corner. Again it's taken by Milijas, and again a Wolves' striker - this time Ebanks-Blake - evades his marker only to head just wide.

11 min Arsenal are still looking a bit sluggish and Wolves are definitely on top. Minor aisde: legendary rocker Robert Plant, who is a vice-president of Wolves, is watching today's game.

13 min "Re. 5:30pm, Marina Hyde - she is entrirely right about poppy fascism," says David Hilmy. "As a veteran myself throughout the late 70s-80s, just as in WWII, the men who fought in the trenches did so to protect freedom and the right to choose to prefer your chips in newspaper or a Mickie-D Happy Meal, to watch footie on the Beeb or scrounge a satellite feed via Kazakhstan, or to wear a poppy or not..."

15 min Eduardo goes down in the box under the challenge of Berra, but there's no strong Arsenal appeal for a penalty.

17 min What a chance for Wolves! Milijas' free-kick from just inside Arsenal's half found Berra completely unmarked, six yards out and with Almunia flapping, but his header looped up like a beachball under a gust of wind and Arsenal cleared.

18 min That's three decent chances Wolves have had from set-plays already ...

20 min Much slicker from Arsenal as, in a draw of a breath, Diaby finds Arshavin who slip-slides it to Van Persie. His cross zips along the six-yard box but Wolves clear.

22 min There's a delay in play as Diaby is treated for what looks a knee injury. For the time being Arsenal are playing with 10 men ...

23 min Another Wolves free-kick in a dangerous postition, 35 yards from goal, but this time Van Persie clears.

24 min Arsenal sub: Diaby off, Song in.

25 min Wolves continue to attack. Doyle swivels and finds space on the right and crosses low and hard but there's no one in the box to meet it.

26 min Milijas' inswinging free-kick is flicked on by Edwards before Arsenal clear for a corner. Milijas takes it, Ebanks-Blake tries to fist it in and gets a yellow card from Steve Bennett.

GOAL! Wolves 0-1 Arsenal (Zuba OG 28) Oh dear oh dear. Wolves have had by far the best of this and yet they are behind.Fabregas's corner went across Wolves' goal, Van Persie missed it, and the ball went in after colliding with Zuba's thigh.

30 min "I have just spent 30 minutes in the pouring rain in Cardiff trying to find a single pub with a single screen showing this match live," fumes Tony Attwood. "Some of the pubs I went into had 15 screens, including several ordinary size ones with no one watching them - but they refused to put a single screen on to the football. I appreciate rugby is the national game, but one tiny screen that no one else is watching, turned over to football would have harmed no one. What is the matter with these people? Talk about cultural fascism."

32 min Arsenal fast-break, Hennessy flaps, but Ramsey's header is straight at him. Arsenal are looking a lot more comfortable now.

34 min Fabregas' corner flies over bar. Meanwhile, according to Arsenal's back-room staff, Diaby has a calf injury.

35 min It's now slating it down at Molineux.

GOAL! Wolves 0-2 Arsenal (Craddock OG 36) Wolves go hell for leather and leave just Craddock back, which turns out to be incredibly stupid when Arsenal suddenly fast break. A two-on-one quickly becomes two-nil when Eduardo's chip takes a big deflection off Craddock, clanks off the post and goes in.

38 min Doyle fires well wide from a difficult angle. "Tell Tony in Cardiff to walk left as you are looking at the castle, there is an Irish pub there which actually appreciates football," says Jack Webster. "I've been through all this myself earlier in the season!"

39 min Arshavin. Eduardo. Van Persie ... and wide of the post. The referee, wrongly, gives an Arsenal corner which comes to nothing.

40 min Arshavin has just been booked, but I've no idea what for as my ESPN feed suddenly went a similar shade of green to Brian Clough's famous jersey.

42 min Milijas takes yet another free-kick in a dangerous area but this time he Wilkinsons it over the bar. As Joe Royle on commentary points out, despite Wolves playing very well, they've yet to force Almunia into a save.

44 min There's some kerfuffle in the Wolves box after Ramsey's lovely outside-of-the-foot cross, but the ball is eventually cleared.

Wolves 0-3 (Fabregas 45 min) Brilliant from Arsenal. Sagna romps forward before playing it to Van Persie, who carresses it to Fabregas, who slots it home. Game over.

Half-time Well, that's surely it, isn't it? While I have a short break, I'd appreciate your thoughts on what would happen if the Arsenal side of 2009-10 played the Wimbledon team of 1990-91 in a fantasy - I'm using the word loosely - match-up.

46 min We're off again. Meanwhile lots of emails about what would happen if Wimbledon 90/91 played Arsenal 09/10. "It would end 6-1 to Arsenal with four Wimbledon players sent off and seven Arsenal players injured, two of whom would be out for the rest of the season," suggests Yasser Hamdi.

47 min This looks like damage-limitation for Wolves. They're now sitting much deeper, happy to let Arsenal ping the ball around.

49 min Van Persie flicks it to Ramsey, but he's unable to control it before Craddck clears. "I'm going to be the gazillionth to point out that the Wimbledon team of 90/91 would be a bit short of pace these days to cope with the likes of Fabregas," says Richard Woods. Also, as you have mentioned the great man, Brian Clough believed that players improve from generation to generation - as I recall, he made the point that if there weren't timings, people would still be arguing that Roger Bannister was a better runner than Sebastian Coe. I have no idea who would win between the current Arsenal and the ancient Wimbledon as I was drunk in 1990/91."

50 min Arsenal are showing no signs of easing off: Arshavin switches to the right but his cross is too close to Hennessy.

52 min "Re this fantasy Wimbledon v Arsenal match, surely it depends which decade you get the ref from," says Ian Marlow, not unreasonably.

54 min This is all a bit show's over. Wolves can't string three passes together.

56 min This from Charles Balfour. "Wenger vs Crazy Gang: Fabregas loses both testicles within the first five minutes. Eduado asks to be substituted after 10. Gould asks Wenger to step outside after Wise chews Arshavin's ear off. 89th minute; Beasant punts it up for a scrambled 1-0 to the Dons. Arsenal's season falls apart. William Gallas renounces all worldly goods and spend the rest of his days in a Himalayan retreat."

58 min Wolves' supporters are taking delight in petty victories - an offside decision going their way, a free-kick awarded in their favour - and again rejoicing in the fact that their relegation-threatened squad is mostly English with chants of "Ing-ger-land! Ing-ger-land!"

59 min Yellow card for Kieran Gibbs, whose foot was high - and off the floor when he went into Zuba.

60 min Yellow card for Zubijas, who is late on Sagna.

62 min The game has got very bitty and tetchy, with lots of fouls and very few chances. Arsenal are comfortable with the status quo, and so - you sense - are Wolves, for to press forward would open themselves to further pain.

64 min Wolves sub: Knightly on, Castillo off.

65 min "Who's going to be the first to tell Charles Balfour (56 min) that his scenario is impossible because Dave Beasant left the Crazy Gang immediately after the 1988 Cup Final?" asks Gerard Cullen. You are Gerard.

Wolves 0-4 Arsenal (Arshavin 66) Seconds after seeing Hennessy save his rasping shot, Arshavin scores. Fabregas's corner was punched out to the edge of the area, and Arshavin, under too little pressure, drove his shot into the corner.

69 min And that should have been five. Eduardo had a one-on-one, but tried to nutmeg Hennessy from six yards and his shot was blocked. "Am working in San Francisco at a focus group with 12 chemists speaking about textbook publishing," says Scott Dustan. "It is as exciting as it sounds, so I'm grateful for the hilarious antics of the Wolves defense to distract me. Does anyone know what's the highest number of own-goals scored in a Premier League game?"

70 min Arsenal sub: Rosicky on, Eduardo - who leaves the pitch to what sounds like cries of 'wanker! wanker!' from the home fans - off.

72 min Arsenal continue to attack. Meanwhile more Wenger v Crazy Gang talk. "Surely it would be an easy win for the Arsenal," chuckles Niall Harden. "That Wimbledon team must be well into their forties by now."

74 min Wolves sub: Milijas off, Jarvis on. Meanwhile Charles Balfour is back. "Gerard is quite right about David Beasant but in a 3am Beijing hotel room with only a dram of whisky for reference I believe I deserve a little slack," he sighs.

76 min Arsenal sub: Arshavin off, Nasri on.

76 min More lovely football from Arsenal ends with Van Persie beating his man, squaring his cross and - surprisingly - Fabregas chipping over the bar.

78 min It's all flicks, tricks and drag-backs from Arsenal now. Another stunning spell of one-touch football; another desperate block from Wolves, this time from Nasri's shot.

80 min Wolves sub: Mancienne on, not sure who went off. Meanwhile Wolves have a free-kick, 25 yards out and central ...

81 min ... Knighty tips it to Henry, whose shot is charged down.

83 min More PlayStation football from Arsenal. Speaking of which this from Stig Tennås."The Norwegian commentator here just suggested that the Arsenal players all have some special software installed to give them a special understanding of playing football the Arsenal way," he says. Real science from professor wenger, I guess. Great stuff."

84 min Van Persie is played in and has a one-on-one with Hennessy, albeit from a difficult angle. He beats him once, then twice, and then tries to beat half the Wolves defence who have, in the meantime, tracked back. And fails.

86 min "Re: Tony Atwood's comment on 30m - am I the only person pleased to find that there is at least one corner of the world that 'the greatest League in the World' hasn't conquered?" asks Tony Cross. "Admittedly I'm not trying to find my team playing a live televised match but then my team is Brentford so getting a live televised match for us is something of a miracle in and of itself."

87 min More one-touch stuff from Arsenal, but Rosicky clown-foots it over from eight yards. Meanwhile Wolves' fans are singing "We hate Fabregas".

Wolves 1-4 Arsenal (Craddock 89) It's too little, too late, but Wolves fans finally have a goal on the board. It was a bog-standard corner, floated in level with the six-yard box, but Vermalean barged into Gallas leaving Craddock free to head in.

92 min Speaking of late efforts, here's Gary Naylor. "The Wimbledon team of the past wouldn't be the Wimbledon team of the present. The Crazy Gang would have benefited from the dietary revolution (who had heard of pre-match pasta and er... creatine, back then?) and would have modified their game in the light of new tactics (Dennis Wise played centre-midfield playmaker for a successful 90s Chelsea team). I'm certain that Everton's mid-80s team would, with a season to adjust, win this edition of the Premier League by a margin - they solved every problem posed in their time, were stronger and faster than any of their contemporaries and had a will to win that I haven't seen before or since." I rate that Everton team very highly Gary, and it's a shame they weren't able to go for the European Cup, but surely saying they'd win the Premier League 'by a margin' is overcooking things?

Full-time That's it! Wolves gave it a real go, but in the end Arsenal were just too good. I'll leave the final word about the fantasy Arsenal v Wimbledon match to Matt from Washington. "Earlier this week, some American women's college teams attempted to stage a dramatization of your dream Wimbledon-Arsenal matchup," he writes, before providing this link, which is definitely worth a look. Thanks for all your emails. Cheers, Sean.