Goodwill has dried up at Arsenal, just like the trophies | Owen Gibson

Old certainties are being challenged on and off the pitch as fans increasingly question Arsenal's way of doing businessThere was a time when the pubs on Holloway Road would hum with pride at Arsenal's self-sustaining model and the impressive trick they pulled in moving to a state-of-the-art stadium while continuing to compete on the pitch. Not for them the arriviste tendencies of Chelsea or Manchester City; they would succeed "the Arsenal way".But that consensus has been shattered in recent years, with the takeover by the largely invisible US sports mogul, Stan Kroenke – who paid hundreds of millions of pounds to enrich Arsenal's "custodian" ...