Beyond The Pitch show

Summary: Phil and Anto are joined by Arsenal legend and Sky Sports presented to have a candid conversation regarding the ramifications of the decline for Arsenal Football Club and how Arsene Wenger has not been able to meet the lofty standards he once set early in the last decade. We examine the nature of the squad then, where things went wrong and the prospects going forward should the club fail to reach fourth. We also gauge the impact of not reaching fourth on Wenger himself as Champions League football is clearly something in which he finds personal satisfaction and pride and if being excluded might force him to self-examine his tenure and, even perhaps, stand down knowing that direction of the club appears to be heading more towards a youth model based on recent comments from one of the key executives inside the club. Additionally we also look at the impact on Chelsea should they not reach fourth and how things may actually be a bit more bleak given the relative age on the squad and how Abramovich tends to overspend but may be locked in with no European football to offer. Then we close on the matter of the England National Team and Harry Redknapp both in terms of restoring pride to the squad itself, but also the impact to Tottenham Hotspur who might just find themselves with even more increasing challenges given how influential the manager has been leading them from bottom of the Premier League to survival and now a potential top three finish.