GETTY Bayern Munich stuffed Arsenal 5-1 in Germany Increasingly it looks less likely to involve the Frenchman after a dismal capitulation at the Allianz Arena showed that in recent years Arsenal have been left further behind Europe’s elite instead of getting any closer. Because, whether or not the Emirates board need an indication of what a well-run club should aspire to on the pitch, Bayern Munich gave them one anyway. Whether it was fate, the gods of football or some underhand form of as-yet- undiscovered magnetism at work, as soon as these two balls came out of the knockout draw together on December 12, it was always going to be a defining moment in the future of Arsenal. Of...
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