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:
3Seeing the silver lining
Whether you call them delusional or just ‘positive’ there are still fans out there that, while they acknowledge that Wenger probably does need to leave, believe things aren’t THAT bad.
It’s not the end of the season yet. Arsenal are still mathematically able to finish in the top four if there’s a massive screw up above them. Perhaps Chelsea, Spurs or Manchester United will hit the wall.
Arsenal may be out of the FA Cup and may have been torn apart by Manchester City in the League Cup final but they’re still in the Europa League.
If Wenger manages to win the Europa League, after getting Mesut Ozil to sign a new deal and securing the signature of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January, we could almost view it as a good season!
Last term we won the FA Cup against Chelsea – the Premiership champions. Three FA Cups in four years is GOOD!
Obviously, I’m not in this camp. All I have to do is watch Arsenal play and there’s no way I can fool myself into thinking we can finish in the top four.
Sure, we are still in the Europa League but we’re facing AC Milan, who have been looking much better lately after a shaky start to their own Serie A season. I’m fully prepared to get knocked out by them.
I don’t want to judge the way I feel about my team right now on events that may or may not come to pass. What’s important is that, at the moment, we look awful and something, regardless of whether Arsenal win the Europa League or not, still needs to change going forward.
Maybe certain fans force themselves to mainly see the positive because the negative is so depressing.
Next up, woe is me