Arsene Wenger's final season after 22 years in charge is destined to end in disappointment after Thursday's Europa League semi-final exit to Atletico Madrid
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger
Arsene Wenger will bid farewell to a stadium he helped to build in more ways than one when he leads Arsenal at the Emirates for the final time at home to Burnley today.
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Wenger's final season after 22 years in charge is destined to end in disappointment after Thursday's Europa League semi-final exit to Atletico Madrid. Sixth-placed Arsenal are already out of the running for a top-four finish, and could even finish below their visitors this weekend in seventh with a poor return from Wenger's final three games in charge.
Tributes will be paid to the Frenchman at full-time today with Arsenal's players even embarking on an end of season lap of honour. Once again, though, it will be a parade without a trophy as it often has been since Arsenal moved to the Emirates in 2006.
The success Wenger produced in his first decade at the club, winning two doubles and 'The Invincibles' unbeaten season on course to another Premier League triumph in 2003-04, created the demand to move to a 60,000-capacity stadium from Highbury. However, whilst the Emirates was intended to give Arsenal the financial resources in the long term to compete with not just England's, but Europe's elite, it significantly hampered Wenger's ability to challenge in the short term.
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