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Published 20:40 1 Nov 2016 GMT
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Apparently we don't appreciate that Arsenal's annual collapse is as reliable as an Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain injury. Their complete capitulation is always there bubbling under their surface like the 'send' key to a #WengerOut tweet. It's ready. It's coming.
Sometimes it hides itself well but sooner or later it reveals itself and it does so with fury. Do not be fooled.
We'll no sooner be talking about the world class likes of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil in the same old schoolers at the bar stool tone: they just don't fancy it. Cold weather? Packed Christmas fixture? Not for them.
We'll be crying out for someone to roll up their sleeves and drag Arsenal through a tough fixture. We'll turn our attention to Wenger and ask why he hasn't rectified the problem - why he refuses to. Stubborn, he'll be called.
Tony Adams and Patrick Vieira will have their ears burning as real men and real footballers are held up as the examples of what Arsenal are missing.
And then, before we know it, they'll be playing glorious football again when it's too late, but it won't be too late to stop people predicting them to get their act together and win the league again next year.
Next year.
This pretty much sums it up.
It's cyclical. It's predictable. It's Arsenal.
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