I've heard Arsene Wenger make some pretty audacious claims before, such as ‘a returning player is like a new signing' and ‘once Aaron Ramsey starts scoring, he'll never stop', but Arsenal winning this season's Champions League title? I'm sorry Wenger – and Gunners fans – it's just not going to happen. There's a pattern to the Champions League that doesn't really get talked about. In the last 17 years, since the gigantic fiscal influence of the tournament first began cementing the position of the world's top clubs with a seeming permanence, only Chelsea, Liverpool, Porto and Inter Milan have been able to break up the continent's oligopoly; AC Milan, Barcelona, Real...
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