Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game. He helped revolutionise football in this country, created some of the greatest teams to grace the Premier League and introduced players who will still be spoken about in glowing terms 30 or 40 years from now.
That status, in my view, will not be affected by a sequence of bad results.
When the summer comes though, I believe that opening statement will need readjusting. It will have to refer to how Wenger ‘was’ a legend in the English game. He said he will still be a manager “somewhere” next season during a classy press conference on Friday morning but we have reached the point where his reign at Arsenal should come to an end.