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As I made my way towards the marble halls on Saturday I passed a woman who glanced at me and muttered, "I wouldn't go up there."

I then turned the corner onto Avenell Road and saw the gathered mass of Arsenal fans outside Highbury's East Stand.

As I approached chants of 'Arsene Wenger - you're killing our club' could be heard - immediately I thought of the woman I had passed just moments earlier and realised she was right.

Now don't get me wrong, every fan has a right to air their feelings - they pay their money each week and so they can say or chant what they want.

But songs such as 'Arsene Wenger - you're killing our club' immediately open up the Wenger Out protesters to ridicule.

The fact is it's simply not true - and it's why these protests will fall on deaf ears around the country and certainly in the boardroom at the Emirates.

Wenger has his faults, no doubt. But killing Arsenal? It's a farcical claim. Try telling that to supporters of almost every other club in the country and see what reaction it gets.

In the last three seasons Arsenal have won two FA Cups and finished fourth, third and second in the Premier League - that hardly suggests that death is currently banging down the door in N5.

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Another popular chant amongst the protestors was 'we want our Arsenal back'. What Arsenal is that exactly? The one that hadn't competed at the very top level of Europe before Wenger arrived? The one that had won the double once?

The one that had won six FA Cups in 111 years compared to six in 20?

It's just a confusing message to send out. That's the overriding emotion I came away with having followed the march from Highbury to the Emirates prior to Saturday's 5-0 win against Lincoln.

The protestors - who probably numbered about 300/400 want Wenger out - that's clear - but when it comes to saying exactly why the message comes across as muddled.

We've been told by the ringleaders behind the protests that it's nothing personal against Wenger, they are keen to point out that the banners are not offensive.

Yet when you actually witness one of the protests in action, it could not be more personal. The chants, the comments - they are as offensive as they come.

My position on Wenger is clear - I believe his time is up. I think change is needed at the Emirates to freshen up a club that is stagnating under his guidance. I agree with the protestors in that regard.

But the way they are going about things I can't agree with. It's nasty, personal and out of order.

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The way those at the front of the march shouted down anyone who dared challenge them spoke volumes - everyone deserves to have a voice they claim, unless obviously it is a different voice to their own.

By the sounds of it the next thing we'll be seeing is a banner flying over the Hawthorns next weekend during Arsenal's Premier League game at West Brom.

Has it really come to that? Is that really the image that some Arsenal fans want to see their club associated with.

Arsene Wenger is a legend - but one whose time really should be up at the end of the season.

Trying to humiliate and hound him out of the club, however, simply isn't right. It just doesn't sit well, he deserves far more than that.