Arsenal: They're the best team on Earth to watch, says starstruck Kitson ...the Spurs fan

"They are, without doubt, the best footballing team on the planet right now," said Reading striker Dave Kitson after digesting a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Gunners on Monday.

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Kitson, it must be stressed, is not a lame-brained stereotype of a footballer, prone to needless hyperbole or speaking before he thinks.

He is thoughtful and eloquent and, what is more, he is a Tottenham fan.

But he made no attempt to mask his admiration for a team he expects to start stockpiling silverware and become a major force for many years to come.

He said: "Arsene Wenger must be licking his lips because there is just silverware here on in for Arsenal. It's absolutely phenomenal stuff.

"They're not just passing to each other, they are passing so that a person can run on to the ball and then his mind is already made up with what he is going to do next.

"It's not overly quick. Fabregas puts his foot on the ball, has a look, sees what he wants to do and then he plays it four yards in front of him to Hleb.

"He'll turn round, play it another four yards, Fabregas has already gone past and so it goes on."

Wenger was delighted to go into a 12-day break on the back of yet another victory, with Emmanuel Adebayor scoring the club's 1,000th Premier League goal at Reading, more than 15 years after Steve Bould scored their first against Norwich.

They have not lost in 27 games in all competitions since April and are top by virtue of scoring more goals than Manchester United, who have the same points but have played a game more.

"We don't feel we are invincible at all," said Wenger, but he has been encouraged by his team's resilience, coming back to avoid defeat against both Manchester United and Liverpool recently.

"When you go into big games, the first goal is the decider 80 per cent of the time," he explained.

"But we showed tremendous quality in those two games. We were behind three times and came back three times.

"Despite our youth we are strong and we always find the resources to sort out the problems we face in any game."

Kitson claimed one of Arsenal's key strengths is their quality throughout the team.

"They aren't reliant on two or three people," he said, but stressed the extra-special qualities of Cesc Fabregas and Adebayor.

He rates Fabregas, 20, among the Premier League's top five players and saluted Adebayor's gifts in the art of centre-forward play.

"When Barcelona came in for Thierry Henry, Wenger must have been looking at the money and looking at Adebayor and thinking it was Christmas," said Kitson.

"Adebayor, as a technician and as a football player, is what every striker should aspire to. His finish for the goal came to him at 100mph and he just cushioned it into the far corner.

"They have one major injury in Robin van Persie and don't even look as if they're missing him."

Few would argue with Kitson's assessment, although Sir Alex Ferguson is always quick to point to Wenger's haul of one FA Cup in three years and Arsenal's lack of English talent.

But, as for silverware, Kitson believes that will surely follow.

He said: "It's blasphemy for a Spurs fan but you just hope a team who play as well as that win something. Their approach is justified, because it's just magic."