Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Ask Liverpool or City if they'd swap their last few seasons for FA Cup wins.
Why? The answer would be obvious. But you said “when it really matters to the fans, the club lets them down.” That has certainly been true too often, but it hasn’t always been the case.

You’re right, it shouldn’t be the limit of our ambitions but that’s a different debate.
And you’re right, we are so far away from the biggest prizes now - but that’s why the progress we’ve made is to be welcomed and IMO Arteta needs to be given time to continue that. If the progress doesn’t continue then fine, get rid. But you can’t simultaneously grumble at how far we are away from the very top teams and grumble that we aren’t closer this season. How could we be given where we’ve been? How much progress can you reasonably expect in one season? Last year we weren’t even in the conversation for Top 4, this year it’s in our hands with 2 games left. If we balls it up (as admittedly seems likely) then it does call into question how much progress we have really made. But there have been undoubtedly been some positive signs this season.