Quote Originally Posted by Globalgunner View Post
We are in a painful existence, if thumpings of 6, 8 and being knocked out by the likes of Monaco are not painful i dont know what is.
Every club will get setbacks and painful results. Again, read Fever Pitch and remind yourself what it used to be like supporting Arsenal back in the day.

The thumpings were embarrassing, granted. We haven't repeated that this year though, happily.
Monaco was a bad one, I've already agreed Wenger's CL record isn't good enough.
But if we win the Cup that's two major trophies in two years. The real pain post 2004 was the constant lack of trophies which we started to put right last year and I hope will continue to this. There are highs and lows in every season, finish this one by retaining the Cup and I don't think I'll regard this as a particularly painful season.
We do need to start seriously competing for the title, I believe we now have a squad which can do so.