Arsenal have never been worse under Arsene Wenger The Frenchman defended his team and praised Bradford for their spirited defending, refusing to admit the night in West Yorkshire had been a humiliation and should be viewed only in isolation as a bad night at the office. However, analysis of Arsenal's current season suggests their decline, while not terminal, is a wider problem than a freak cup result. In the 16 years Wenger has been in charge of the club, Arsenal have never had a worse win ratio. A 44 per cent victory rate, as this season's figure currently stands, is lower than the 44.4 per cent equivalent in his first year at the club, and down from the high water mark of 65 per cent in 2002. Just as worryingly, after the opening 16 games of a season Arsenal have only once accrued a lower number of points in the Premier League era, before Wenger's time in the 1994/95 season. A total of 24 points from a possible 48 this term represents Arsenal's worst return under Wenger and speaks of a club going backwards. Wenger's supporters at the Emirates of fond of saying that in Wenger they trust. But the trust that has been earned over a period in the club's history in which they are regular members of the Champions league elite has a finite lifespan, and may be on its way to being lost.