A Gooner or a gonner?

Arsenal’s historic motto Victoria Concordia Crescit loosely translates as ‘victory comes from harmony’; but the biggest challenge facing the club today is how to find an exit strategy for manager Arsene Wenger — either long-term or short-term — that allows either of those two aims to be achieved.

It wasn’t so long ago that even suggesting Wenger should be moved aside would have been seen as heresy; but times have changed. Following Tuesday’s Champions League home defeat by Bayern Munich — days after Arsenal were knocked out of the FA Cup by Blackburn — the internet was flooded with discussion threads about Wenger’s future.

The online home of fanzine The Gooner saw almost 3,500 posts and 75,000 viewings on a ‘Wenger: for him or against him’ forum which highlighted just how divided the Arsenal community have become.