Time has come for Wenger to realise he has to go

Arsenal missed the chance to go top of the Premier League when surrendering a 2-0 lead to fall 3-2 at home to bitter rivals Tottenham. The mood at the Emirates was a sombre one, with a sense of what might have been, and the Daily Telegraph’s Matthew Norman has put his head above the parapet by claiming the time has come for Arsene Wenger to go.

"Nowadays no one - not our Queen, her ministers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, not even Cheryl Cole - lies beyond attack from the vicious iconoclasts of both public and media.

No one, that is, except Arsène Wenger. Miraculously, the Alsatian alone continues to inspire a degree of deference unknown in Her Majesty’s realm since a peer was ostracised from society in the late 1950s for mocking her accent.

To those of us who have come to regard Wenger as a shot fighter, this is the leading mystery of an endlessly perplexing age.

Nowadays no one — not our Queen, her ministers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, not even Cheryl Cole — lies beyond attack from the vicious iconoclasts of both public and media.

No one, that is, except Arsène Wenger. Miraculously, the Alsatian alone continues to inspire a degree of deference unknown in Her Majesty’s realm since a peer was ostracised from society in the late 1950s for mocking her accent.

To those of us who have come to regard Wenger as a shot fighter, this is the leading mystery of an endlessly perplexing age.

Certainly he won a bundle of trophies, and in glorious style, but that was then. Even Churchill finally accepted that no one can “keep buggering on” forever. Will Arsène Wenger ever do the same?"