“It’s not me, me, me, it’s one-two-three.” Arsene Wenger’s almost musical summary of his football philosophy—one with which we are all now more than familiar—at the end of Arsenal’s 3-0 demolition of Chelsea was pleasingly rhythmic, just like the perfectly cadenced job his team had just done on their bewildered rivals.
The crux is that it’s not all about one player in his Arsenal teams; it never has been, not even when Thierry Henry was shredding teams at will with the Invincibles. Wenger’s dream has always been to rip opponents up not with one player but with 11.