Wenger's also responsible for our fall from grace IMO. I know some people believe he is constrained by the board, who are unwilling to release funds and have told him to try and finish 4th while also making a net profit in terms of player transfers. However, I get the impression that Wenger is fine with this strategy, that he believes that the economic cost of trying to spend a lot of money to compete with City, Chelsea, Utd etc is greater than the economic benefit that you get from winning the league. I'm sure Wenger thinks it is impossible to compete with teams who in his mind have "financially doped" and therefore their titles are in some way tainted. Because he believes Man City and Chelsea's titles are tainted, he probably isn't too fussed that we haven't won the league, because in his mind he probably believes they don't count as much as our titles in 97-98, 01-02 and 03-04.