and this tendency to accommodate feckless and lazy players is a harvest sewn by Wenger and the boards he held in his thrall for so long.

Relegation would lance the boil as the overpaid rats, who feed on us and demand a king's ransom in return, would all scarper. And the 20,000 tourist muppets that were 30% of those imaginary capacity crowds, who have already lost interest will go for good and nothing will replace them. The only way to fully expunge Wenger's DNA is relegation. If we languish in the middle regions of the Prem, it will take at least another 6 - 8 years.

We do have the comfiest stadium in the world I reckon though, and soon there will be a great deal more space in it on match days.