INEVITABLE END OF SEASON COLLAPSE BEGINS?

REASONS TO BE WORRIED BEYOND JUST THE HORRIBLE BOURNEMOUTH DISPLAY

I’m quite numb. Obviously disappointed. But maybe not that surprised considering the way things have rolled of late. I’m also not talking specifically about the football. We’re in a run of maximum punishment for every mistake at the moment. Losing a game off three shots on target, with two of those ending up as non-penalty goals is just the way of the world right now for Arsenal. But not just that, I’m talking about bringing 11 players back from international duty, thinking it was dark arts, then finding out it wasn’t.

The season has an element of terminal illness about it. This week, we’ve got one more round of treatment. We’re either walking away from it healthy as a holy miracle, or it’s a short battle with illness, to go with the past three seasons’ worth of the same.

I put this one behind a paywall in case I regret it…