It’s not an easy time to be an Arsenal fan.
Not only are the team’s chances of finishing in the top four for the second season running looking worse and worse, Wenger’s men are playing appallingly.
The calls for Arsene Wenger, the man who’s seen Arsenal through 22 years of highs and lows, to resign have never been louder and the majority of it is coming from the fans. The same fans that have loved him dearly for two decades.
With the state of the club in such disarray, you can kind of understand why some fans have taken a step back from football.
Honestly, even though I still follow and support the team, if my job wasn’t to write about Arsenal, I probably would have too.
Watching defeat after defeat can get pretty depressing and if it’s having a negative effect on your life, it’s only sensible to take a step back.
However, the vast majority of Gooners are still hanging in there, waiting for times to change.
Here are the five types of Arsenal fan left in 2018:
2Wenger out veterans
Although most Arsenal fans probably want Wenger to resign at this moment in time, the Wenger Out Brigade has been an actual thing for years.
Ever since the team stopped truly competing for the title, there has been a vocal section of the fan base who believe it’s been time for change for a long time and that the Frenchman is out of touch with modern football.
Even after winning three FA Cups in four years and pushing aside injury problems, these fans have been bringing signs to matches long before last season.
There have been marches, protests, chants and banners for so long that you can probably understand why Wenger finds it pretty easy to brush them off now.
They may be louder but he’s had to deal with so much hate from his own fans over the last 10 years that I imagine it’s become easy to block out. It’s all just white noise to him now.
There’s a smaller section of this fan base that appears to mistake his silence for arrogance, which only makes them angrier. Abuse gets hurled, people spit venom on YouTube and a toxic atmosphere is cultivated.
Unfortunately, these people are the loudest, which is why the media give them a voice.
They forget that what I imagine to be the vast majority of the Arsenal fan base do want Wenger to stand down but aren’t involved in all this mud-slinging. They just want what’s best for their club. And, unfortunately, it looks like a change of manager is the only solution.
Next up, the fans who will always see the silver lining