After a day to digest what happened to Arsenal, Craig Burley and the FC panel's view on Arsene Wenger isn't any prettier. If the eulogies for Arsene Wenger's Arsenal career are written this summer, and there is every chance they will be, the gut-wrenchingly embarrassing 10-2 aggregate defeat to Bayern Munich will only add extra colour to an already lengthy segment. The margin of defeat might have been unusual, but the effect was not. European disappointment is one of the defining features of his Arsenal career. Wenger's has been a reign of two halves in so many respects. In terms of innovation, of success and of respect, the periods 1996-2006 and 2006 and beyond have been very different....
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