Photo: Courtesy

The Arsenal fans have been accused of living in a vicious cycle. Every season things start brightly only for the spark to fizzle out and the team is left scrambling almost breathless for a top four position.

Usually the Gunners start the season brightly, hopes are raised above the clouds, and Arsene Wenger says he ‘might’ buy a player or two, and then the transfer period closes without signing anyone.

In the meantime, the team starts drawing an odd game here and there. Just when the fans are about to get agitated, Arsenal plays Champions league play off and qualifies to be in the competition proper. This is nothing but a temporary lull. Come November Arsenal blows away precious points.

A look at the bumper fixture around Christmas times gives Gooners nothing to cheer about in the festive season. The fans cannot wait for January transfer period and hope that this time round monsieur Arsene Wenger, aka The Professor will locate his cheque book and get to sign it and indeed sign a player. He does not disappoint. He signs a 17 year old from the duodenum of France that nobody has heard off. We are told he has the agility of Thierry Henry, the strength of Patrick Vieira, the vision of Mesut Ozil and the determination of Alexis Sanchez. As soon as he lands he is loaned to a championship side.

In the meantime, Wenger continue to insist he is in the market. He pretends and wants us to believe that signing players is akin to prospecting for oil in Isiolo. Arsenal fans are now tired of signing about next season. This charade has to come at a stop.

We are living in a world of modern miracles where trains without drivers take a leisurely ride from Railways all the way to Githurai. Yet not a single miracle at Emirates Stadium. Arsenal struggles to be in Champions League every year, yet it does not have attendant arsenal to go for it.

How did Arsenal end up facing Barcelona in the last 16? It lost some clear winnable games from teams in the duodenum of Eastern Europe.

Even in the Premier League it is no different. It has reached a pint where mid table teams have more prospects of collecting maximum points from Arsenal than from fellow strugglers. How is that? How can it possibly be? Small teams face Arsenal with their tails in the clouds!

Wenger cannot spend the entire season throwing his hands sideways, banging the water bottle against the pitch and burying his face in his hands. Why do we have Watford and Swansea walking all over Arsenal, at Emirates Stadium, as if the home ground is some sort of a fruit farm where you can and pick the juiciest cherries?

One other thing Wenger needs to take a trip somewhere deep in some Equatorial forest, sit under tree and seek super healing interventions for his players to avoid injuries. I say this because modern medicine and his battalion of medics seem not to know what they are doing at the club. If ever there was a table for injuries, Arsenal would never have to fear anything, for it would be permanently at the top.

Can Arsene Wenger rediscover his Midas touch and lead Arsenal to the Promised Land? I fear not, this time it’s an all-out Wenger out!

By AFP 2 hrs ago
Athletics
Beijing half marathon runners stripped of medals after controversial finish
By AFP 14 hrs ago
Football
Arsenal, Liverpool fight to keep Premier League race alive
Athletics
World hammer silver medallist Kassanavoid eyes glory at Nyayo on Saturday
Athletics
Eldoret City Marathon to have a bigger 10km fun run