I’m a newer fan who only started watching the club over the past 2 seasons. I’ve been trying to learn the history of the club, and I’m confused why there was hate for Wenger at the end of his career. I learned that he lead the invincible’s, and that amazing squad from the early 2000s, he gave us the only champions league final appearance in club history, and even after that he seem to do an amazing job. Heck he even got a new Stadium that is really nice. He seemed to be loved. By all accounts he should be a Saint to the gooners but then I look forward a few years, and they were all these Wenger out protests. What led to such a fall from grace.
This is a great analogy. I think the other thing that annoyed us is that we always were challenging for the top 4 but never were serious title contenders. Also, we could beat all the little teams but struggled to compete with the big ones. It was just a little missing that we couldn’t seem to fill. In hindsight, top 4 for that many years is an incredible achievement and there were def some lean years after.