Was booing of Wenger at a Stoke train station the beginning of the end: No

"The 2003/04 campaign can be scrutinised in much the same way as historians view the mythical golden summer of 1913 – the final blissful days of a peaceful Europe before the spectre of conflict blotted out the sun."

Jon Spurling’s new book Red Letter Days: Fourteen Dramatic Events That Shook Arsenal pops tongue in cheek as he traces the club’s decade-long decline from invincible champions to dissent-riven also-rans.

But we may be near a stage where Arsene Wenger would be vilified less if he sent the world spiralling into warfare.