It doesn’t take much to send Arsenal into a full-on crisis. As the years passed, and the 2005 FA Cup final started fade into the mists of the past, the realisation that Arsenal had become used to trophyless seasons took root. It had been nine years of drought at the Emirates Stadium, until another trophy finally arrived in 2014. By then, the FA Cup probably wasn’t the prestigious competition it was when they beat Manchester United on penalties almost a decade earlier. That explains how the anger set in. A slow burning rage that, bit by bit, consumed the club over the years of predictable failure: years of ‘transition’. There are, of course mitigating factors. Repayments for the...
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