Our spoilt fans need a reality cheque

FOR most football supporters, “a close but no cigar” season, including two semi-finals and qualification for the Champions League, would be considered a relatively successful campaign.

Yet judging by the recent shameful displays from the not-so-staunch sections of the Arsenal’s audience, I can’t see too many Gooners lingering for the traditional trudge around the pitch at our last home game.

Arsène Wenger set the bar so high that, with all the success that followed his arrival at the club, far too many of our spoilt fans fail to appreciate it is an inevitable fact of life that the vast majority of sides are destined to end virtually every season empty-handed.