Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
Unfortuantley now there have been arguably more years of disharmony and frustration as there have been success. His legacy now includes a deeply mind fucked and divided fanbase. What you alluded to about the divided fanbase will rumble on after he’s gone. If the next manager were to get off to a poor start or struggle at any point, you just know those fans who still hold a candle for Wenger will cause a problem and the cycle will repeat itself, only this time with the in and out roles will be reversed.
A good angle. It's become fashionable to regard Arsenal fans as spoilt and thinking that they are entitled to success, but this isn't true at all. For years we were promised that the club was preparing to compete at the highest level, and up until about 5 years ago I think that we were patient in a way that, say, Manure fans would not have put up with. Since then, with the deliberate orchestration of AW we have been invited to inhabit a parallel universe where any excuse under the sun has been offered to explain under performance and lack of ambition on and off the pitch. If it were simply that we were cash-strapped, or that the players seemed to be giving their all but were losing to better sides, it would be one thing, but the unberable frustration has been caused by the manager's utter refusal to see, or admit where he is going wrong - or to do anything about it. Wenger has effectively traded on his legacy to garner support - and this is what has set fans so implacably against each other and eroded any vestige of patience.