TIM HOWARD: Why it WON'T be a failure if Arsenal miss out on EPL title again

I have backed Arsenal to win the Premier League for two successive seasons. I was wrong last year and - even after Tuesday's demolition of Chelsea - there is a decent chance that Mikel Arteta will go without a trophy once more.

So would that represent failure for this team and this manager? I don't think so. And here's why: very few teams do what Leicester did and win the Premier League out of nowhere. Very few teams pop up all of a sudden and land a major trophy.

The vast majority have to go close and fail. Then go closer and fail again before eventually it happens. Manchester City had to do that - even after buying all these superstars and pumping all this money into the club.

It took Liverpool a long time to get back to that perch, too - they had to come close a few times. So it's not failure, it's growth, And if it's not this year, Arsenal will go close to again next year and the year after that. This squad is young and built to do that. Arteta has found a formula.

Jamie Carragher suggested recently that this Arsenal side could end up being remembered like Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham – a team that won admirers but not much else. I disagree - at some point they are going to get over the hump.

Any business owner is trying to stay afloat. Any business owner is going to try to keep his team in the most lucrative market in the world. So I can understand why Evangelos Marinakis would try anything to help Nottingham Forest stay in the Premier League.

Could they have gone about this VAR complaint a different way? Could the club have avoided releasing a statement entirely? Possibly.

But Forest hired Mark Clattenburg and, ultimately, this was what he was brought in for: to make sure that when the club felt aggrieved and hard