Something like that. I wouldn't claim any great perceptiveness in it. We could all feel the thing had drifted.
Calling for Wenger's head 10 years ago was crazy, though. We were financially constrained and yet in 2008 we could easily have won the league. I still believe that Eduardo doesn't get crippled and we win that season.
I'm not sure the idea that the jig was up really had anything to do with finances. Anyway, Wenger's trick had always been to make 5 million-pound players look like 50 million-pound ones, and not t'other way about
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."