The month of December has always been a very crucial period in the English Premier League. With a busy schedule building up to the midway-point of the season, this month has often provided a strong indication of how both halves of the league-table may come to look at the end of the season. Being the most-experienced manager in the Premier League, Arsene Wenger must be well aware of that. And it should give him good reason to be quietly overjoyed with the performance of his young Arsenal side in the current campaign. A third of the season has whizzed by as we step into December and its Arsenal leading the race for the Premiership title.