The way that Arsène Wenger described his terror of time this week almost made you think Arsenal built the Emirates Stadium just so their manager could escape Highbury’s Clock End. “My relationship with time is distressing in every way,” he told L’Equipe’s Sport & Style magazine. “I’m always afraid of being late, of not being ready, of not being able to accomplish what I’ve planned.” That certainly suggested all the ambient prattle about this season representing a case of now or never for Arsenal’s Premier League title ambitions should be enough to have the Frenchman’s nerves jangling like the manacles of a cop in the dock.
