Arsene Wenger will approach Monday's powderkeg Arsenal AGM as a man at ease.
In recent years, with his team underachieving, the Gunners manager has regularly had to step in to perform a rallying speech. This season, he hopes, is different.
Arsenal showed signs of their old fragility in their stalemate with Middlesbrough on Saturday, but there are strong signals that the Premier League's perennial bridesmaids might finally pull off something big this time around.
The potential of his players is consuming Wenger enough that he had even considered skipping the often-fiery AGM — but he now looks set to attend at the Emirates this morning after rescheduling training.