If everybody else sees it, why not Arsene?

PAUL MERSON is a chirpy type but when he shook and bowed his head in the Sky Sports studio on Saturday, you sensed a Eureka moment in the air.

“Maybe, he’s just stubborn,” he said of Arsene Wenger. “Maybe, that’s the problem here.”

We will return to Chelsea – many times, I suspect, before their season climaxes in some silverware – but there was a demoralising finality to Arsenal’s title challenge at Stamford Bridge yesterday that merits consideration.