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Monday, 21 May 2007 17:15
Arsenal In Focus
Good, bad or just the same old, same old? What the fans made of the 2007/08 season. Full Story
Facts
Formed: 1886
Home: Emirates Stadium, capacity 60,000
Nickname: The Gunners.
People
Chairman: Peter Hill-Wood
Managing Director: Keith Edelman
Head coach: Arsene Wenger
Assistant coach: Pat Rice
Team captain: William Gallas
History
The first season in the 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium marked a new stage in Arsenal's history. No longer are the Gunners the historic club which does things the traditional way. Instead they are a 21st century enterprise with grand ambitions, commercial partners and American suitors to boot.
Arsenal are used to success and last season's fourth-place finish – the second in successive years – was only the second time the Gunners have finished outside the top two since 1996/97. Wenger's reliance on youth has unsurprisingly coincided with his inability to match Chelsea and Manchester United in the transfer market – and he has just about managed to keep the wheels on in the process.
Wenger has made Arsenal play with a flourish, while George Graham achieved success in almost equal measure by making them play with functionality in the 1990s. Years before that Herbert Chapman set the club on the way to greatness with years of domination in the 1930s and the 1970s were a good time to be an Arsenal fan too.
But another season without silverware could see the unthinkable happen; some may ask whether Wenger's powers are waning. Another transitional year is simply not acceptable.
Honours
League champions: 13 - 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1971, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2002, 2004
FA Cup winners: 10 – 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005
League Cup winners: 2 – 1987, 1993
Cup Winners' Cup: 1 - 1994
Community shield: 11 – 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004
Last Season
Premiership: 4th – P 38 W 19 D 11 L 8 GF 63 GA 35 GD +28 PTS 68
Champions League: Round of 16 – lost to PSV Eindhoven 2-1 on aggregate
FA Cup: Quarter-finals – lost to Blackburn 1-0
League Cup: Final – lost to Chelsea 2-1
A fan's view of the 2006/07 season
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