(Editors' note: We asked Nick Hornby -- novelist and screenwriter who wrote about his obsessive fandom of Arsenal in 'Fever Pitch' -- to assess Arsene Wenger and the Gunners after a painful campaign that saw them finish outside the Top 4.)
We asked Arsenal supporter and author Nick Hornby to assess Arsenal's worse season in 21 years. Here's what he had to say.]
Arsenal left Highbury for the Emirates in 2006 with the promise of big success. Well, we're still waiting writes 'Fever Pitch' author Nick Hornby.
Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager -- if "manager" is not too demeaning a description of Wenger's all-encompassing role at Arsenal -- and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition in Great Britain, have been joined at the hip for much of the last year or two.