For clubs like Arsenal, success is not measured in individual results. It is measured in trophies, in finals and in individual honours.

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Once again, Arsenal have ended a season without silverware and the seasons are now starting to mount up – three now since they lifted a trophy.

Arsene Wenger has kept his side among the leading challengers in almost every competition in that spell and they've also played some of the most exhilarating attractive football around but the bottom line is that it hasn't so far translated itself into medals.

It looked as though it might do this season when Wenger unleashed the most stylish young footballing side in the country on the nation and the Gunners stormed to the top of the table on the back of some eye-catching play and crushing results.

"You win nothing with kids," said Alan Hansen before being famously proved wrong by Manchester United many moons ago but his adage has held true as far as the Gunners have been concerned this season – though it is arguable whether inexperience or squad thinness has cost his club dearly this season.

Either way, a season which started so brightly has ended in disappointment for a side which has such high standards.

Even being guaranteed a third-place finish in the Premiership – and Champions League football again – is little consolation to a side which led the table for so much of this season.