Will Slattery

Like completely done, it's over.

We don't need to talk about the title race again.

And somehow because they froze and they had fatigue and they're just getting dragged back into it.

So they never won it with the kind of authority that you would associate with a great team.

And even, not that it's their fault, but like to win it with Bournemouth doing them a favour.

It's not a fair point as such, but it kind of plays into that feeling.

is a four-minute, ten-second VAR situation away to West Ham.

That was it.

It's a perfect encapsulation of the dire state football is in.

A set piece, a corner, grappling, VAR.

It's a very Arsenal 2026 way to win.

It just is.

Miguel Delaney's written a great piece, by the way.

It's on the website.

And he was just pinpointing that April where Arsenal lost twice to Man City.

The Carabao Cup defeat was very... What's it called these days?

Carabao Cup, yeah.

was kind of devastating and rocked them.

And then they lost to City again, obviously.

And they had four consecutive domestic defeats in three competitions.