Only now do I begin to realise how spoilt we have been. The memories of the last George Graham years are now starting to be resurface, woeful football being played by dreadful players. Please don’t get me wrong, as in the mid-Graham era we saw some marvelous football played by some excellently talented footballers. Anders Limpar, Paul Davis, David Seaman, that majestic back four and of course Wrighty, every signing was massive and the football brilliant.

Then the crap starting arriving, Chris Kiwomya, Glen Helder, John Jensen, players that were one, maybe two leagues above their station, and the standard of football became woeful. We became reliant on Ian Wright’s goals and the meanest back five in the land, that was it.

Then along came Dennis, then Wenger and then a flood of brilliance. Footballers you wanted to watch play the game we love to the highest standard. One touch telepathy from an extraordinarily talented collection of professionals, and this was the spoilt era. This is when we were had the hottest seats in football.

Now whether there is a coincidence with the demise of our team and the sacking of David Dein, I don’t know, however it does seem that our negotiating arm has been severed and we are now forced to put up with sub standard football played by very sub standard footballers. The list is worrying, and maybe what’s more worrying is that Arsene Wenger, a man who I had great admiration and respect for, really seems to believe that Nicholas Bendtner, Emanuel Eboue, Alexander Song are even close to being Premiership footballers.

They are awful, no ball control, no football brain just nothing and in Eboue’s case a cheat and a liar also, a ploy he uses to make up for his lack of ability on a football field. I am positive Arsene understands football much better than I do but why is he being so ignorant with regards to this footballer? How many more bad touches and poor finishing does he need to see from Bendtner before he puts that particular dog out of its misery.

I realise you have dry years. Years to rebuild and become trophy hunters again, I would afford patience if progression was evident, but it’s not.

Arsene Wenger has revolutionised our club, dragged it into the new millennium. However now I feel like I was spoilt and an unnerving feeling of déjà vu is haunting me.