FOR a group of players who have claimed three of the domestic game's last four major prizes with some of the most bewitching football in modern memory, Arsenal could be forgiven for feeling aggrieved for their pre-season billing as impoverished also-rans.
Not when a master stonemason has spent the summer updating the wall of fame outside the club's sumptuous London Colney training complex with confirmation of another FA Cup success. Not when a £130mil, 10-year kit deal with Nike buoyed Highbury spirits on Friday.