Arsenal have crashed out of the Champions League in humiliating fashion and slid down the Premier League table so that qualification is an outside shot at best.
So it falls to the FA Cup, so often denigrated in word by fans and in deed by managers with eyes on bigger prizes, to salvage the season.
The best that can be said about the weekend’s game is that it stopped the losing run.
So another week has come and gone and less and less makes any sense aboard the good ship Arsenal.
Daily Cannon’s Matthew Wade discusses Arsenal’s latest disaster, this time at West Brom and Arsene Wenger’s future.
At the moment it’s quite hard to write about Arsenal without writing about Arsene Wenger, but although an ongoing story, the subject is getting old.
The Anfield defeat feels like another big nail in the coffin of the Wenger years.
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Its that time of year again. A new season, and soon enough a new edition of Football Manager and I’m going to show you how to be Invincible.
South Wales’ finest once again gave Arsenal a scare in our own back yard.