Arsenal, RIP… This 10-2 Bayern Munich humiliation means one of the world’s most famous clubs is dead and buried under Arsene Wenger
This was a defeat you see on a video game, not in real life, and Wenger cannot last any longer
ARSENAL Football Club, Rest In Peace.
This institution, one of the most famous clubs in the world, is dead and buried.
Here at the Emirates, the heart finally stopped beating.
This defeat, so big the vidiprinter had to spell out TEN in letters, is a disgrace.
It is PlayStation, not something you should ever see in real life.
No dressing-room bust-up, no slanging match, no screaming and shouting can get Arsene Wenger out of this hole.
Arsenal’s manager has to go.
Forget the respect and dignity, because all that can be taken care of when he finally walks away from this club.
He is slowly, but surely, killing Arsenal.
It has to be the brutal end to one of the greatest managers in the history of English football.
Thanks for the memories, Arsene. Time to go. Nobody can take anymore of this. It is beyond excruciating.
Arsenal, smashed into the back of beyond at the Allianz Arena, were humiliated again.
There was no mercy. There is no mercy.
Do not fall for Wenger’s bunkum about Laurent Koscielny’s 55th-minute red card being the turning point in this second leg.
Come on, Arsene: It is time to do the honourable thing. To finally accept defeat. To do the right thing by the fans.
The Gunners were marmalised by goals from Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben, Douglas Costa and a double from Arturo Vidal.
Theo Walcott’s 20th-minute opener rifled through Manuel Neuer’s hands and into the roof of net turned out to be false hope.
When Bayern got going in the second half, scoring four times in 30 bewildering minutes, Arsenal gave up, had their pants pulled down, admittedly by one of the best clubs in Europe.
The protestors, the 150 or so spotty teenagers calling for Wenger to quit outside the stadium, called it right.
Under Wenger, Arsenal are flat-lining.
Captain Koscielny, who hobbled off injured with the score 1-1 in Munich, was sent off for pulling back Lewandowski — after initially being shown a yellow card by ref Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
What followed next was wretched and weak especially after Walcott’s goal made them believe the miracle was on.
His strike was special, wriggling like an eel beyond four Bayern defenders before he drilling home from a tight angle.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, certainly in the first half, finally looked to have come of age as an Arsenal footballer.
In the opening spell it was easily the most commanding he has ever been in this club’s colours.
The Ox went on to play the pass into Walcott that should have been rewarded with a penalty.
At least Wenger got that right. The rest of it he called spectacularly wrong.
After Olivier Giroud failed to score with a clear header at the start of the second half, Bayern spluttered into life.
The classy teams, the clubs with real pedigree, find superhuman ways to respond.
Bayern, even with the cushion of the 5-1 win in the first leg, did just that.
They had no business coming to the Emirates and working over Arsenal in the way they did in the final 35 minutes.
By the end, they had the run of the place.
Lewandowski scored his 38th of the season for club and country when he finally sent David Ospina the wrong way from the penalty spot.
Arjen Robben, who scored the opener in the first leg, put them 2-1 ahead here.
It was another delicious goal, trading passes with Lewandowski on the edge of the area before bending his effort beyond the reach of Ospina.
Robben’s 68th minute strike prompted a walkout, with fans streaming for the exits in protest at another doomed Champions League campaign.
They are used to it.
These fans have seen enough, sick to the back teeth of the annual promises that are made around this place.
They will never win the Champions League, not under Wenger.
Arsenal, once flag-bearers for English football when Thierry Henry was running riot up front, were beaten to a pulp.
It will not be pretty over the next few days because Wenger has lost control of the place.
Nobody is capable of responding any more, certainly not to the demands that once saw this club reach the 2006 Champions League final.
That was 11 years ago and yet it remains a reference point.
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Arsenal have never been able to move on from that night in the Stade de France when Juliano Belletti blew their dreams of lifting the European Cup.
They are a minor league team now, hit out of the park when Costa, on as a substitute, wrong-footed Arsenal’s defence to score the third.
The fourth swiftly followed when Arturo Vidal lifted his effort beyond the onrushing figure of Ospina after 80 minutes.
There was time for another, with Costa unselfishly passing the ball into Vidal for the Chilean to score Bayern’s fifth.
Sadly, the time has come to read Wenger the last rites.