Especially after their extraordinary collapse in the Champions league and being outclassed by Swansea, all in one week, the long-held view that Arsenal must be the most frustrating club to support gained life.

Arsenal is a club where great success is always possible. Indeed, given all they have, great success is actually more probable than possible.

Yet, they are so keen to squander their ambitions, and in increasing ludicrous fashion. With no excuse for it. The only teams they have beaten in the league this season are Burnley, Sunderland, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace.

What makes it all so annoying and frustrating is that Arsenal seem to make the same mistakes again and again and again and again until you start to think they are doing it deliberately as some kind of vindictive performance act.

All our teams frustrate us. But very few of them are as close to greatness as Arsenal. That is what makes the difference. They should have everything, they should sit astride global football like a king, clutching all of the trophies and laughing their heads off. Instead, it is the rest of the world that can't stop laughing at them.

- Source: Ian Macintosh. ESPN