On Tuesday morning, Arsenal fans woke to see their club's unbroken 19-year run in the Champions League under serious threat. The drawbridge is being pulled up.
It is apt that this is also the day that the Champions League quarter-finals kick off.
This is the stage of the competition that Arsenal have now failed to reach since 2010.


To put that into context, among the team knocked out by Barcelona seven years ago were Mikael Silvestre, Denilson, Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Eboue.