Arsenal’s latest bruising beating leaves Arsène Wenger at point of no return | David Hytner


The Arsenal manager received support from one of his former players following the 3-0 loss at Crystal Palace but so bad was his team’s display and so vitriolic the abuse from away fans that he is now surely done at the club

Mathieu Flamini was doing his best to say the right things, to see a broader picture and to tip-toe around the subject that has come to hold Arsenal, his former club, in its grip. It was a little after 10.30pm on Monday night and the Crystal Palace midfielder, who had come on as a late substitute in his team’s 3-0 thumping of Arsenal, was talking in the Selhurst Park mixed zone.

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