Football is decided less by moments of brilliance by superstars than it is by mistakes and no team makes more critical errors than the Gunners
There is an episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast called 'My Little Hundred Million'. In it, he argues it is many times more beneficial for philanthropists to give money to smaller non-elite US universities rather than lavishing yet more money on elite institutions like Princeton.
It’s best to upgrade the weakest institutions in the education system than to fortify the strongest. To illustrate his point he contrasts two sports, basketball and football.