Match Reaction: Arsenal 3 Zagreb 0

[Kano]

It's not a pessimism about where we'll be at the end of the season. The vast majority can already work that out based on a repeating pattern over a decade. It's the frustration of knowing that one change at this club, albeit the crucial one, and we've got a squad that could win the PL and actually compete in Europe. That's all it would take, somebody at the board level with a set of balls. But that's not going to happen so you are right, on our way to the inevitable outcome there will be ups and downs and we take whatever is on offer.

I was there at the start of the season if you remember. And I see many of the same patterns and issues but if I want to enjoy my football and sitting down to watch the team I support, I find little point in assuming where we are going to be anymore. I spent a lot of time debating it on here from a similar point of view but I've come to the point now that even if I end up having the same frustrations at the end of it, I'd prefer to make the most of that weekend pre-match hope of bagging three points. Especially as the world around us falls deeper into shit. These escapes of ours are ever more precious. We're stuck with Wenger for at least one more season after this so I'm swallowing my medicine a bit more than I was.