“I was with a lot of Arsenal fans the other day and I was quite shocked at how many are against Arsène now,” Merson says. “That FA Cup win is now a distant memory. And I think these next two games are massive, massive football matches. Only one set of people get you the sack and that’s the fans. The club are never going to sack Arsène. He makes too much money for them. But if the fans start to properly turn, that changes things.