There have been times recently, trying to make sense of how Arsenal’s season is already starting to feel like another public ordeal, when the mind has drifted back to the cartoon that appeared in L’Equipe on the weekend Arsene Wenger announced it was time to say adieu to the club.



It was the creation of Lasserpe and it showed an Arsenal supporter using a can of red spray paint to graffiti “Wenger Come Back!” in capital letters on a brick wall.



Except his companion, another Arsenal fan, didn’t look too impressed. “Was it not you who was screaming ‘Wenger Out’?” he wanted to know.



“Yes,” came the answer, “but, like Brexit, I’m afraid I will regret it.”



And touche!



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