On Tuesday night, the final game of the 34th round of the English Premier League ended, and Chelsea at home beat Southampton 4-2, throwing off the title rival Arsenal behind him by four points, but Arsenal has two games in hand, and the initiative is no longer in Chelsea's hands. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Let's go back to the summer of a year ago, when the Premier League was on the rise. Famous marshals from all over the world gather here, just to compete for a high and low.

"Portuguese madman" Jose Mourinho, "football philosopher" Josep Guardiola, "Italian tactician" Antonio Conte......

Each of them came here with the ambition to establish a new order, with the desire to regain control of the Premier League.

Waiting for them here was an old man who was 66 years old at the time.

Everyone wanted to win, and in this long and fierce military race, no one wanted to be the first to be pronounced on death.

They use all their tricks – some spend £100 million to buy a player they want; Some drove out the meritorious goalkeeper for a radical tactical overhaul; Some people are trying to transplant their famous back three system to the Premier League......

But there are people who don't look like they've changed anything, wearing red ties, unzippered coats, chattering about exaggerated deals, and a bunch of young people dreaming about that utopian dream.

It's not that there is no hope, this old man led his children to maintain a near-perfect record in the first ten rounds of the Premier League, scoring 23 goals and accumulating 23 points, leading the Premier League with the passionate Liverpool and the acclaimed Manchester City; It's not without hope that the old man has led his boys to a Champions League yoke as they drew away to the unbeatable Parisian giants, won the group in the final round and are looking forward to the future.

However, how could life make it so easy for him to pass the test, life is not full of obstacles and accidents everywhere.

The Champions League drew nemesis Bayern Munich again, after losing to Watford at home in the league on the last day of the winter window, the league ranking fell from second to third, and the city's rival Tottenham Hotspur climbed to his head with a goal difference, and more importantly, the points gap with the top Chelsea reached nine points, and the gap between the top four competitors behind him was only 1-4 points.

At that moment, this old man was once again pointed out by thousands of people, and people did not hesitate to throw themselves at the 67-year-old man in the largest Russian, and they also vented their anger with posters and slogans, and even released their romantic and dazzling "confession balloons" directly over the Emirates Stadium.

Is this fair?

I want to ask you, ask the Arsenal fans, or ask this old man called Arsène Wenger in person.

On 23 April, Wembley, Pep Guardiola had the worst night of his 10-year career, his team failed to finish the season with a title for the first time, and the author of this "tragedy" was standing opposite Arsene Wenger.

To the surprise and disappointment of many people, the red cannon did not collapse after this game, they did not drag the game into extra time, their physical strength was simply difficult to support another 30 minutes, in stoppage time, Zhang Zhetian and Alex Sanchez were like the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon, helping the building to fall, turning the tide, with a simple and direct goalkeeper connection, ending the future of the blue moon and sending Arsenal to the road to the double.

After Alexis Sanchez's goal, we saw a different Arsene Wenger. At the end of the game, he waved his fists on the sidelines, roaring into the sky, and doing what was already a passionate celebration on him.

Adhering to the humble gentleman, Wenger, who is as gentle as jade, could not hold back the adrenaline rush of that moment, thinking that he was accustomed to seeing the changes of the situation, and had already reached the realm of "you win, or not, I am standing here, not sad or happy", but who knows, he still waved three punches to the sky for this ticket to the FA Cup final.

He swung this punch into the sky, at the slogans that spread all over the world, at the "WENGER OUT" that had been multiplied into a subculture, at the enemies who wanted to kill him and bury him in the grave, at the gossip that said that he was "no longer young and no longer fit for the arsenal", and at all the changes he had made in the past 20 years to "survive".

There are ball idiots in the world, and it is not an exaggeration to dedicate such words to this old man.

In "Heavenly Game", Mr. Chaos, a chess idiot in Xizhuang, in order to win the immortals, turned into a sunspot with his own life, and finally completed the tragic "Winning the Sky and Half a Son".

If Wenger were given the opportunity to give his life to defend the football he was obsessed with, he would be obligated to do so.

Of course, it is precisely because of this old man's insistence on himself for so many years, the defense of his football style, and his belief in his business philosophy that Arsenal has accumulated so many fans, but it has also made more and more Arsenal fans begin to be dissatisfied with him.

They thought the old man was too stubborn, too paranoid, too academic.

So, the old man chose to change and took risks.

He began to spend a lot of transfer fees to find famous players in the transfer market, 30 million to get Sanchez, 40 million to buy Schodran Mustafi, 50 million to buy Mesut Ozil, one so-called star after another came to the Emirates Stadium, and the old man also smiled and accompanied them.

At the end of January this year, the old man who is good at discovering talented new stars finally scratched the lottery ticket for the grand prize that fans all over the world are crazy about, and the giants of Europe are envious and jealous, and brought a Chinese goalkeeper who has just turned 19 years old and less than two months old from Portugal's second-tier competition with a mere 2 million pounds in liquidated damages.

It was his arrival that the old man began to change his football belief that he had adhered to for 20 years, no, it was an innovation in his faith, and he fought away from home with the bitter Chelsea, won the long-lost away victory, and killed the opponent in the league for the first time since the unbeaten season, and then broke the curse of the Champions League round of 16, broke the inertia of the collapse in February and March, and won all the way, making the top of the table like a man.

In the match against Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal used a two-back formation for the first time to beat Pep Guardiola's side, and then continued the team that led the team to victory, winning the game in a way that did not look like Arsenal.

The suspected retro two-back formation is very unstable, when it is good, it is more Arsenal than Arsenal, and when it is ugly, it is more Mourinho than Mourinho.

Is this the Arsenal they've been familiar with for 20 years, people ask?