Analysis: Arsenal are painful to watch but maybe this is just how you win things

Arsenal crawl on, this strange, slow-burn race towards some kind of finish line, a spectacle that really is unlike any other...

KEEPING THE FAITH: Arsenal fans hold up a giant banner in the stands before the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg match at the Emirates Stadium. Picture: Nick Potts/PA Wire.

And so I am become a meme. 

Towards the end of this game, already booked for standing on the edge of the pitch whirling his arms in a balletic, immaculately groomed pose of horror, like an oversized wedding cake figurine at the world’s most distressing wedding, Mikel Arteta could be seen pulling his jumper up over his eyes to obscure the spectacle in front of him.