Wenger should take this perfect ending

If this was the end, it was the perfect final chapter. Should Arsene Wenger bid au revoir to North London this week he will do so having guided Arsenal to their most unlikely FA Cup success of his 20-year spell in charge.

Saturday’s thrilling 2-1 victory over Chelsea was a record seventh FA Cup triumph for Wenger. To put that in some sort of context, that’s the same haul Liverpool have managed in their entire history. Ditto Chelsea.

This was a triumph fashioned against monumental odds. Arsenal had to beat Manchester City in the semi-final and Chelsea in the final to put a gloss on a season that at times has verged on the calamitous.