Owen Murphy

I mean, that transforms the season.

Let's say they haven't done that, though, and all they've done is go closer than ever before to winning everything.

Did they have the same manager that whole time?

Turns to Frank Grimes, Mikel Arteta, and he's like, what, you've never been to space?

Now, Jamie, I think this is an interesting question because it's like, do you conclude, say we're spooling forward here, they finish second again, and do you conclude, okay, this is because our manager is tragically flawed.

He's really good at a lot of things,

He just doesn't have what it takes in the last section of the season.

Or do you say, look, that's obviously sort of Stone Age superstitious nonsense.

Fact is, if we had a better centre forward than Jokeres, we would have won this league easily.

And, you know, let's do it again with Arteta.

I'm not asking what you think Arsenal will do, because I think Owen is right in that Arsenal will say, look...

it will be mad to sack this man when he's taken us so close and we've got to keep the faith, at least until November when the Emirates is in absolute uproar, when it doesn't look like we're even going to finish second this year, right?

Or I'm not asking what you think Arsenal are going to do.

I'm asking what you believe is the truth here.

So it turns out that Lampard actually does, he genuinely does feel that sorry for himself.

To send him out into Premier League expecting him to get results with this squad, with this group of players.

The fact is he looks at that squad and in his head all he can hear is,

This is his exquisite self-pity.

Timo Werner, like Timo Werner.

And then Jodie Morrison's like, boss, boss, you know, what are we going to do?