IAIN MACINTOSH: Beast required as well as beauty

Arsenal did it.

They made hard work of it, they put their supporters through the mangle and they came perilously close to screwing it up, but they will compete in a 16th consecutive Champions League campaign.

Now they have to change. They cannot continue to put their supporters through this kind of torment, not unless they want to directly contribute to a spike of stress-related illness in north London.