Arsenal v Bayern Munich: live What Wenger's former players have won since 2005 This may appear to rather undermine the "football's not all about winning trophies" tone of the several thousand words below, but is, you must concede, very pretty to look at and click on. To invoke the words of judge Alan Berg on the illustrious subject of the Jeremy Kyle Show, there has been an element of bear-baiting about the recent treatment of Arsène Wenger. Like a particularly temperamental teenager, Wenger needs little prompting when he's in a bad mood. Seemingly innocuous rumours about a new contract set him off yesterday in a press conference in which he appeared to have neither calmed down nor been to bed since embarrassing defeat to Blackburn in the FA Cup at the weekend: This would be cruel if Wenger was indeed a sulking character played by Harry Enfield in the 1990s. But Wenger is not, and should know how the media works by now. We are obviously going to be delighted every time someone prominent loses their temper, and every time it happens it makes it more tempting to rile the person again in an attempt to get another story out of it. It's a vicious circle, much like Arsenal's current money-saving spending-averse declining-quality modus operandi which has seen them slide further and further away from relevance since the move to Ashburton Grove. Their decline is much like that of The Simpsons. Capable of almost transcendent genius at their peak, the two dribble on listlessly primarily as a way to make money, a pale imitation of their former selves. Arsenal have a plush, but frequently quiet new ground. The Simpsons has stunning but inert HD. Neither has anything like the hit-rate of their glory years. The struggles of Arsenal are delicious for lots of supporters of other clubs because Arsenal's fans, online at least, can be amongst the most shrill and unpleasant. As with plenty of supporters from other major teams, there's a sense of entitlement among Arsenal's online contingent that's hugely distasteful for supporters of the 88 or so league clubs that don't have expectations of winning games regularly, let alone silverware. That expectation of success has always baffled me, as a supporter of a team that beat it out of me within about 10 games of first identifying with them. It's so boring, isn't it? So joyless? Where's the fun of getting acclimatised to being among the 16 best teams in Europe and routinely beating Aston Villa 3-1 at home? The Arsenal fans I know that actually go to matches are hugely frustrated with the way their club is run, worried about Wenger further tarnishing his legacy and depressed about the same failures in their team repeatedly going unaddressed and seemingly getting worse. They don't carp on about being also-rans or laughing stocks, the language of the reductive phone-in and dunderheaded messageboard, because they realise that Arsenal don't have a Richard Scudamore-given right to always be on top. Some can remember two other eight year gaps without a trophy in the not-too-distant past, from 1971-79 and 79-87. Others have the intelligence to realise there's more to being a supporter of a football team than being able to trade witless insults with someone in your workplace that happens to support Spurs. Sure it's not pleasant at the moment, and there's no doubt that things are badly wrong at the club, not least the infuriating stubbornness of Wenger and the profit-first mentality . But things could be far, far worse. They may get far, far worse tonight, with a team from Germany aptly providing yet more schadenfreude. I expect some crack-papering with a good performance before being outclassed in Germany, confirmation of another season without a trophy. But also a season that has featured a 7-5 win against Reading, a 5-2 win against Spurs, a 7-3 win against Newcastle, European football, Santi Cazorla and quite a nice kit. Those are more happy memories from one campaign than many teams accrue in a decade. It might make some Arsenal supporters happier if they could appreciate that.