Many years ago, I owned a Bruce Springsteen CD of Born to Run. I played the thing so many times that the word "run" in the lyric "baby, we were born to run" just disappeared. That didn't deter me. I kept playing it until one day my daughter presented me with a new disc and begged me to toss the old one.
As we head into the new Arsenal season, which feels very much like the old Arsenal season (and the 10 before that), I'm finally beginning to sense that there are a few too many scratches on Arsene Wenger's 20-year record to keep playing it on an endless loop of doom.