I feel no sympathy for Wenger, none at all.

I do not believe that the board is preventing him from doing what he wants to do as manager. IMO the idea is ludicrous. For one, if he is being forced into looking like a shadow of his former self - why not walk? Plenty of managers have done when they feel undermined. Second, look at all the dud players that AW has signed, who are now being paid so much that our wage bill is obscenely bloated relative to the talent we have. Why would the board on the one hand allow him to piss away the club's resources, and on the other deny him the funds to keep his best players or to buy the players he wants. It just doesn't make sense.

Where the board is at fault is in allowing AW to have too much power and say in what's going on, not too little. Because he's a cash cow for them (by selling the crown jewels each year), they are happy and complacent in allowing a monomaniac to run the team down.

Let's face it. Wenger is washed up. His scouting network - that used to find hidden gems - is in tatters, and shown up by those of so-called lesser teams who are now doing a better job. With the bar much more level these days in terms of scouting; training methods; diet and general fitness, it is mental strength; tactics and man-management that creates the edge - and Wenger, never brilliant at any of these, is being left behind. His methodology is flawed, and its resulting in players going backwards rather than developing - and the players can see this and clearly no longer believe in him.

Football supporters and commentators aren't completely stupid. They have seen a situation like we are in before and are sensing blood. We are in an aircraft that is going down, but because the pilot has refused to allow any competent co-pilots to accompany him, there is noone to pull us out of the dive.

And in the back of the plane, our board is like a bunch of monkeys too busy eating their own faeces to even notice.