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Yes, really. We had a period of dominating English football once before. In the 1930s! It had been 60 years since then and while we'd always had trophies here and there the title in '89 was the first in 18 years and while we repeated it 2 years later by the mid-90s we were a very mid-table side who had some good Cup runs but never seriously looked like title contenders. So yes, winning 3 titles in 7 years and 2 of those being Double seasons (yes, we'd done it before but not for nearly 40 years and gave no indication of being able to repeat it although we were close in '91) was exceptional for the club in modern times.

Wenger can't live off that period of success forever of course and every season which goes by without a trophy more fans lose patience with him but to act like that period of success wasn't exceptional for our club is...well, it's just plain wrong. It was the best period since the 30s and not even Coney remembers that.
But the perception is it was too good for Arsenal so 7..8..9 seasons of no trophies and the same mistakes still can't allow us to question him and not be criticised for it. His success was exceptional because of the football we played and watching players like Henry, Bergkamp, Pires....
Ferguson's success is exceptional but even he is more accountable than Wenger and his fans aren't in debt to him as much as people think we are to Wenger.

So yeh his success was outstanding but impossible for a club of our stature, don't agree, even when English football was highly competitive pre 92 we won trophies, reached fa cup finals, had potential which Wenger realised, but we can go higher,
Anyway I'm going to stop talking about it because he's not going