Sunderland 2-0 Arsenal: Let The Autopsy Begin

Over the course of the next few days you will be told that now is not the time to analyse the season. The line will be that we’re still in fourth and there’s Champions League qualification to fight for, so we must re-focus, bounce back, show some sort of reaction and all that jazz. I disagree strongly. Of course I’d rather we finished fourth, and it should go without saying that, from a financial point of view, qualifying for the Champions League is better than not. But even if Arsene does successfully pull another qualification rabbit from his hat, it will be a mistake to view this season as anything than what it is: failure.
Failure because, even if we do finish fourth, the difference between this season and the others since we moved to ...