Yesterday, Arsenal lost 2-1 to Manchester United, which is no great disaster. It’s certainly an improvement on the 8-2. However, yesterday Arsene Wenger lost a lot more than a football match. In one moment, he seemed to lose the trust of the Arsenal faithful.
The discontent surrounded the substitution of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Chamberlain had been Arsenal’s most promising attacking player, and had just created an equalising goal for Robin van Persie. However, Arsene decided to replace him with Andrey Arshavin, who is currently as far from being a fan favourite as he is from his hometown of St. Petersburg.
The decision was met with huge boos. Even Robin van Persie visibly declared his disbelief at his manager’s choice. As Oxlade-Chamberlain trotted off, there was some brief respite as the fans praised his contribution. But when Arshavin subsequently took to the field, the booing returned – louder and longer than it had been before. To be honest, it was unclear if the jeers were for Arshavin, for Arsene, or both.
Let me start with the decision to bring Chamberlain off. Sources in the Arsenal camp indicated he was physically tiring, and that doesn’t surprise me in the least. An 18-year old on his first Premier League start was never likely to complete ninety minutes, however well he was doing. The explanation that he was suffering from fatigue seems to me to be entirely credible.
And even if the switch was purely tactical, it did not merit the howls of derision it received. I thought the behaviour of the fans in the stadium yesterday (and before anyone labels me an ‘armchair’ fan, I was there myself) was pretty pathetic. It was the sort of stuff I’m more accustomed to seeing from Blackburn fans. After a first-half in which the Emirates lived up to its ‘library’ reputation, swathes of the crowd managed to wake up to boo the team off at halftime. And then to follow that up by greeting a substitute with boos? Ridiculous.
Having this debate last night on twitter, many fans felt inclined to point out that the substitution “ruined our positive momentum”. Yeah, well thanks for levelling things up with all the booing. That sure helped restore the positive vibe.
Truth be told, folks can say what they like on twitter. Or here. Pretty much anywhere. But when you’re in the stadium, you get behind your team. Let’s not forget, at this point in the game we were drawing 1-1 with the Champions, and the fans were chanting “you don’t know what you’re doing” at the manager.
This is the same manager who took the bold decision to start Oxlade-Chamberlain in the first place. The same manager who made an intelligent and effective change at half-time, introducing natural fullback Nico Yennaris for the struggling Johan Djourou. This, lest we forget, was Arsene Wenger.
I suppose the vitriol on display is a symptom of a relationship under strain. The reaction yesterday was about more than one substitution – it’s about 6 trophless years, a baffling transfer policy, and most recently a run of three consecutive defeats. Patience with Arsene has been thinning and yesterday, for many, it gave way.
I do understand how those fans feel. I occasionally feel exactly the same. I merely don’t agree with how they chose to express it. We are in a very sticky situation now. To be without a league point in January is not good. We’re in a poor run of form that, in the battle for fourth place, we can ill-afford.
Truth be told, I think our record is simply levelling out to something approaching an accurate reflection of our ability. Robin van Persie carried us to a long unbeaten run pre-Christmas, but I think in that spell we did disproportionately well. Expectations may have been raised higher than was appropriate, and that seems to have led to complacency in the transfer market.
Despite the disparity in scoreline, the feeling among Arsenal fans is very much as it was after the Old Trafford hammering. We’re staring down the barrel of catastrophe with a few days to dust off the chequebook and sort it out. This time, however, I’ve no confidence that we’ll get any reinforcements, let alone half a dozen.
I opened the blog up by saying that losing to United is not, in itself, a disaster. I stand by that. However, finishing outside the top four, for both financial and footballistic reasons, would be. And at the moment, that feels increasingly probable. If there are any steps Arsene and the board can take over the next week to avoid that fate, they simply must. The natives are increasingly restless.
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I’ve typed this rather hurriedly on an iPad, so don’t have the usual fancy links and stuff. Forgive me.
Well said, succinctly
Theo needed to be taken off after his concussion. That’s a serious injury and Wenger should be taken to task for that.
I wonder if letting Fabrinski out on loan has more to do with freeing up a squad place (does it?) than his european ambitions? One problem that the buy-buy crowd (and don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t object to a super-super quality signing at all) seem never to recognise are the squad size rules.
Finally a reasonable analysis. I’ll be honest, defeat to ManU hurts. And we lost a chance to really close the gap on Spurs with the defeats to Swansea and Fulham.
I am one of those people who prefers to have faith though. Sure, I will get angry, but the booing to me smacked of disloyalty and for me, that’s unacceptable. When we lost 8 – 2, we still cheered our team. But today? Something seemed to break, and I sure hope it doesn’t end up costing us a manager.
cost us a manager? u have no clue. with arsene at the helm, arsenal is not heading towards the right direction. we better pick another manager who can try to move us forward. otherwise explain to me a manager who would refuse and insist on playing CB for wingback when the club has alot of cash surplus? is it by coincidence while we continue to play arshavin and other dead wood like Djorou while we could bring in reinforcements?
The club is going downhill, yes, but we don’t know if it is because AW has suddenly turned incompetent or if it is because his hands are tied and he is not speaking up. If it is, he bloody well should.
Reality check: how readily available are these reinforcements? You can’t just pop down to the supermarket and buy a left back off the shelf.
Wenger salary is very costly indeed.
So are the 10 other useless players forming the so called extremely big squad and huge depth at Arsenal.
well…. errrr…. overall I belieeeeve it depends upon what you call “costly”
It won’t cost us a manager ….It might cost us a total Buffoon
“But when you’re in the stadium, you get behind your team.”
I think this line says just about everything. Was I yelling in my apartment about the substitution? Yes. Would I have ever booed my team at the stadium? Absolutely not.
As a fan I find it frustrating that we haven’t bought during this window. I am beginning to wonder if either the board, or Wenger, or both are out of touch with the expense that it takes to finish top 4. Remaining in the Champions League next year is going to prove to be difficult if we don’t invest. I’m not looking forward to panic buying at the end of this window when people with the power finally come to their senses and realize spending is necessary. I’m worried that our captain is worried. It wouldn’t be unjustified if he was. Unless we show that we are willing to fight to be on top it is going to be increasingly difficult to sign quality players. At the current moment I think we need to focus less on developing the future, and buy some quality that has already developed and found its legs. That doesn’t come cheap.
All that said, despite frustrations I’m and Arsenal supporter, and will remain one regardless of where we finish in the league. I’ll just be a lot happier with a top 4 finish than a 10th place one.
If you don’t boo when our idiot manager makes the most stupid decisions time after time….then you’re no supporter of Arsenal.
You need to show some allegiance to the club….not that moron.
I think you”ve hit the nail on the head. Of course we’re all pretty frustrated right now, but by not getting behind the team through the lesser times, the gloom becomes infectious and that transmits throughout the club and its :SUPPORTERS: OK so we havent had a trophy for six years, but there are no universal rights…there are other good sides around, and they’re entitled to be.
So many forget what AW has done in his time here. We/ve been brought up on a diet of the most beautiful football this country ever saw,an invincible season,wonderful talent,(and some of those, real bargain basement deals). This country learned so much during those years.Ive been supporting this club for fifty years, and I do support it. I have no gripes with the Ashley Coles or Nasri’s. I respect what they gave the club when they were part of it and loved them at the time they did. Some of the so called fans we have nowadays should have followed us through the early sixties when we were 17yrs without a trophy and played rubbish. Thing is, Arsenal survived and went on to prosper-just as it will again. We are a leading European club and we never achieved that with someone that doesnt have a clue.Get behind the club, the manager, the team because through these times, they simply need it.
I’m embarrassed to be an Arsenal fan for the first time in my life. The “fans” today were pathetic, which hurts me much more than the loss.
The only ones that were pathetic are the ones sitting on their hands and not booing. Our club is sinking fast and Captain Wenger is at the helm looking for more icebergs to hit.
Yes oxlade was probably cramping and fatigued and yes the yenaris sub was a good move but shouldn’t oxlade have started on our last 3 games against the smaller teams so he would be ready for the full 90 mins against united… Aren’t we also overlooking the fact we all soiled our trousers a little when we saw RVP limping and even more after Parks performance today….? 5 points off top 4 10 points off spurs and no reinforcements… Not good enough!
No, let’s get it right….
He was not cramping or fatigued – in the post match interview, he said he felt good and could easily have continued.
Plus he gave no indication that he was tiring. In fact he was the only one running around!
Wenger should not be defended for his poor tactical decisions. 30 years in the job and having made 50,000 substitutions, we are right to expect more from him. Having said that abusing Wenger and booing is not the Arsenal way. Having said that maybe this is the wake-up call Wenger needs as this is not the first time he has subbed off Oxlade Chamberlain instead of Walcott, when Oxlade Chamberlain has been the best player on the pitch.
Bringing on Yennaris at half time was a correction of mistake Wenger made prior to the game beginning. Djourou should never have been starting as RB, after the last few performances he has had in that position. Djourou’s performance against Manchester United was as predicted, terrible, Nani was given too much room to do whatever he wanted and today once again showed that Djourou is ineffective at RB. Wenger having made the mistake in not starting Yennaris, should have corrected his mistake much earlier on in the game.
Wenger has made 3 mistakes that have cost us tonight. (1) not starting Yennaris (2) taking of Oxlade Chamberlain (3) not investing in quality players that will take the burden off RVP from scoring.
Wenger has had a great career with Arsenal and for that he should be respected. Having said that, he got his tactical decision all wrong tonight and they should not be defended simply because oh Wenger’s history with Arsenal.
Your thoughts?
20-20 hindsight is such a source of comfort, isn’t it?
Tell me: what is a quality player? How many should Arsenal hve? And extra ten, to cover the ten whyo are injured?
Really, people like you should be banned from comment.
No Nick.
How about an extra 10 to cover for the crap we still have at the club and need to be sold.
Getting rid of useless/injury prone and dead wood players like, Arshavin, DIaby, Denilson, Squillaci, Almunia, Bentdner, Vela, Rosicky, Chamakh, Walcott, Gibbs, Djourou and more.
What is a quality player you ask? How about someone who is proven in the Premier League. Our best signing, Arteta, has been that.
So why not pay the same £10m or so for players like Samba, Baines, Dempsey, Hoillet or maybe we could pay that little bit extra and go for the better ones as well, Ba, Cabaye and more.
How about we stop importing foreign shite that take 8 months to settle and begin to build a team with some prmier league experience?
Any other questions you have that need to be asked?
A tad rough on Gibbs. He is injured yes but he doesn’t command a high salary.
Dempsey would be a very useful signing.
True.
The thing with Gibbs is that he has potential, but is always injured. It’s a fact that he hasn’t been fit for 10 games in a row (i actually think it might be 5, can’t remember properly), but that shows that he has problems.
We cannot rely on him to be a left back for years to come, so I think it’s better that we offload him now and get someone like Baines or Cissokho who might be older but has played all games in the season and are full internationals.
Who’s talking about hindsight…..I’ve been making these comments for the last 3 years.
So please stop talking out of Arsene’s arse.
What is a quality player?….haha classic…..(don’t ask Arsene – he’s got no idea!)
@ jack – this is not the first time the fans boo.
Anyway, gunnerblog is rite about the booing. the fans are angry about the 6 years, at wenger refusal to change, and at his repeated lame excuses rather than at that arshavin sub.
@Jon.
Regarding your comment about Fabianski should be allowed to leave on loan to free up squad space.
We NEED him as a second choice goalie, Almunia is simply not good enough.
However, we give useless squad places to shite people like Diaby who is injured all his life.
Regarding your whole article, I think it wasn’t right to boo the team. But I think that is the only option Arsenal fans have now. Wenger doesn’t listen to us and now that he AGAIN isn’t buying although the voids in the team are clear (left back, right back, creative midfielder, striker), he will not address these at all.
The squad needs an overhaul, gettin rid of useless/injury prone and dead wood players like, Arshavin, DIaby, Denilson, Squillaci, Almunia, Bentdner, Vela, Rosicky, Chamakh, Walcott, Gibbs, Djourou and more.
I also think that it is time for Wenger to go. We missed a GREAT opportunity to get Ancelotti and he is someone that would have easily won us trophies. But maybe we can get someone like Rikaard, or convince Guardiola or Ancelotti to come in the SUmmer as they have both spoken about wanting to manage Arsenal.
Arshavin being shit and responsible for a goal was very much a self-fulfilling prophecy after the crowd drained him and the whole team of all confidence. Pure poision to the club our home-support.
The pure poison in our club is Wenger. Fans should do whatever it takes to get rid of this lunatic. This guy has proved that he has absolutely no idea on anything; whether it be on morals, tactics, player selection or player purchase.
2-1 is no great disaster compared 8-2 is that the attitude and stand point you have taken.I don’t believe arsene has lost every Arsenal fan.And feel the outcry from the fan’s was born out of this month’s result’s or maybe the year’s of pain and frustration we have endued.Don’t think it’s right to compare a spontaneous section of fan’s booing to blackburn’s fan’s planed protest’s.We were level at the time but in taking the ox off many fan’s and professionals feel Arsene handed united the upper hand.Which in the end proved to be the case.the Bold decision to start ox and bring on yanni,Hardly the ox has been crying out to be started.As far as djourou is concerned,his been truly awful for some weeks.You yourself agree the transfer policy the team and where we are going is far from right.how else do fan’s voice there concerns about there club.I’ll never be against Arsene but changes within the club are needed.The board need to step up.
I disagree with your last comment…
I would say…
The Board need to step down (not up)
would be nice if they did.just would love them to back the boss.that’s what i meant step up and spend some money
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Fatigued? An 18 year old kid who has just had the biggest adreneline kick in the world after assisting a goal against Manchester United? Fatigued after playing less than a couple of hundred minutes all season? Absolute bobbins. Fatigued is Aaron Ramsey who has to bear the weight of being our creative midfield pivot before he is anywhere near ready as we have inadequately reinvested the £54 million we received for our midfield playmakers this summer. The stench of desperation in Wenger is palpable and the baying mob sense it. Neither Park nor Ox feature all season long yet here they are rolled out to play the champions? Just insane, utterly hatstand. I completely understand the booing of Wenger, it is a straw that broke the camels back scenario, Ox looked the only one likely, no denying momentum had swung our way after the equaliser and you could sense we had utd rocking, the whole world could see if a sub had to be made the terminally dire Walcott should be the one to make way, how he had the nerve to berate Ox in the 1st half after he himself had misplaced a pass to Ox is beyond me. What has happened today is fans deciding a players fate, the majority have finally passed an unequivocal decision that Arshavin and his lacklustre displays are no longer welcome. We have been witnessing the endgame of the Wenger era for some time and I do think he desperately needs to step aside at the seasons’ end, the whispers grow that the players no longer understand his increasingly bizarre decisions and transfer policy and the fans have lost all faith in his powers to motivate and build a team that can come close to challenging.
Spot on Groverider. I’m sick of people defending Wenger just because of what was achieved a Long time ago. The problem with most people blogging here is that they are starting to accept mediocrity. We are an ordinary team and unless something happens very quickly we are doomed to finish mid-table. It is blatently obvious that no team can lose the quality of the players we have in the 5 years and not replace them. It’s not rocket science and someone has to be responsible for this. Whether it be AW or IG or the board, this inept management of this football club cannot be tolerated.
100% correct
THERE,THERE!!!!!
Fatigue is Wenger’s Arsenal’s run.
Every week he has to blame the referee.
Today, he can’t find fault with the ref, so he defended his substitution and selection for the game, and the many ones earlier.
I wish people would stop defending Wenger. Enough is enough. He is the sole reason we have not won a trophy in 6 years. He is the reason we are where we are right now. HE LOST THE GAME. RVP will (should) leave because of Wenger. Doesn’t he deserve to be playing for a team (Coach) with real (no only lip service) ambition?!
We were playing Manchester United for fcuk sake! Our OBVIOUS Man Of The Match was replaced by the most underachieving player on the squad. The run of attacks shut off like a tap. The winning goal was typical poor defending by the same sub.
And the justification by this manager is PATHETIC. Ox was tired. Of course he was tired. But he is ten times the player tired as Arshavan is fresh.
I admire you.
It’s people like you and me that actually talk sense around here.
People can say he has done a lot for the club, which he did do in his first 7 years, but since then he’s been crap.
People need to stop being under the illusion that he will sort this stuff out, he won’t because he is craaaaaaap
WE WANT ANCELOTTI!
WENGER OUT!
Ancelotti – He just took over at PSG.
If (and it’s a big IF for a number of reasons) it comes to replacing AW, I nominate David Moyes.
Great idea, David Moyes. Let’s get Teddy Sheringham in as his assistant, and Phil Neville as player coach.
Cunt.
Tony Adams and Bergkamp. lol.
Yep we missed out on Ancelotti big time. But I think in the Summer if we come calling he will listen.
He wants to take another London team to the top like he did with Chelsea, mostly because he wants to prove Abramovich wrong.
Sorry mate the Ancelotti ship has sailed to Paris
Our great club is crumbling before our eyes and for some people today was the straw that broke the camels back, I personally don t think that booing is the answer but you pays your money and all that,however we re 10 PTs behind the spuds and not likely to win a trophy but it’s the ” if we get fourth that’s a good season” attitude that does my nut in, what the hell has happened to us? It’s time for a change in attitude from the board and the manager regarding signings and wages and for Christ sake ditch that 433, we re not barca and won t be for the foreseeable. Great teams have great players, great players win you trophys it’s not rocket science is it?
I need to get away from the arsenal world. All this hysteria is insufferable.
I don t want wenger out I want him to put things right but I am sick of hearing his excuses I ll be there next week but I bet hazard or goetz or ba won’t, hold on a minute the last geezers at the African nations- he definitely won t be there!
But do you think he will change it around?
He’s had 7 years to do it, but he hasn’t. His excuses are pathetic and he never admits his mistakes.
The truth is, the way people said, he bought Henry, Vieira, Petit, Gilberto, Ian Wright and all these legends, well he actually didn’t. It was David Dein. Since he left, who have we bought that has been good? The only two I can think of is Vermaelen and Koscielny.
Wenger has always been known for his talent spotting, but where has this gone since Dein left in August 2007? It has been poor, because Dein was in charge.
I think he’s been given too long to change it around, and now its time for the board to change it around managerial wise
Hazard was at Emirates today and experienced first hand our monkeys embarassing the club by booing the team while drawing with the current champions. Bet he can’t wait to missplace a pass or two in front of these lads.
Or maybe he was looking down from the crowd thinking ‘Wow this Chamberlain guy is pretty good. Oh no wait, he’s being subbed. Maybe when it’s 1-1 and I’ve just set up a goal I’ll be taken off as well. What the hell is wrong with the manager?’
That sounds more realistic.
Firstly the booing was for the incomprehensible substitution of a young lad who looked like he could change the tables for us. As with most things (as with Eboues’ boo off) it’s a culmination of many things and is the fans’ sole outlet at showing displeasure at the manager.
Secondly maybe Hazard would prefer Chelseas’ racist chanting or the white hankies of the Bernabau?
Thirdly ain’t no chicken shit chance in Hades we’re spending the 20+ mill it would take to bring Hazard in so not really worth getting yourself wound up over is it?
Manueline almunia £60 k a week for sitting in Starbucks in hampstead, Abu diaby £60k a week for never being fit, arshavin £80k a week for being homesick, that’s not hysteria that’s the truth
Add to that Denilson £50k and Chamakh £55k.
Why not sell two of them like Denilson and DIaby, get the £115k wages and attract someone with bigger wage demands like Sneijder who will actually do well in the midfield unlike the other two and will demand £100k because he is a good player?
His logic of giving useless players so much money is shocking.
You’re blaming About Diaby for having his leg broken by a horror tackle? And you’re blaming Arshavin — who was desperately bought a few Januarys ago (the exact type of signing everyone is crying for), who basically single handedly kept us top 4 ahead of Villa in his first half season, had 10 goals and 18 assists last season, and has had two assists in the last 3 games in limited minutes. And you’re blaming our wage structure (where you confidently know how much each player makes) while probably simultaneously whining that we don’t spend enough.
Everyone would cry if we left AOC on and he had made a decisive mistake. You would cry if Yennaris had put a single foot wrong. You would cry if Benayoun had come on and misplaced a pass.
Thank god our club is in the hands of move level headed men.
Regarding Diaby, one ‘horror tackle’ is an understatement. He has been injured all the time. His latest one is a muscle injury, hasn’t got anything to do with a broken leg.
Ramsey has a broken leg, double fracture, not single like Diaby, but he can still play and not get injured.
Regarding Arshavin, yes he was bought as an emergency signing and did well in those 6 months. Since then? I don’t think so. Yes he assisted and scored a bit last season, but let’s not forget he had people like Cesc and Nasri passing to him and available to pass to. At the time he was a good signing, but now we must cut out losses. People begin to go downhill and not perform well, he is doing that so we must sell him, he is blocking chances for other people.
Regarding the wage structure, I complain about WHO gets the money, not how much. People like RVP, Arteta, Koscielny, Song deserve the amount of money they are on, they perform week in week out. THe others don’t. How am I confident about the wages? There was a leaked wage page on Arsenal.com a few months ago showing the wages. I was not personally on that page but it was printscreened on a blog, emphasising my point of how shit people are getting paid too much.
And would we cry if AOC or Yennaris made a mistake. No. THey both played their hearts out the game and whenver given the chance to in other tournaments, always do.
Arshavin on the other hand, doesn’t.
You’re right. The big drain financially is wages. It dilutes the supposed transfer kitty people believe the club has. The theory was that the young players getting relatively high money (relative to players their age at other clubs) would look reasonable when they blossomed into world class players. That for the most part did not happen perhaps because they thought they were stars without doing enough to earn it. Is that inflated sense of self due to the club’s unwavering promotion and support of these players? In part, yes.
Sorry – I meant to say the relatively high wages they were being paid would look reasonable once they blossomed etc.
A broken leg is much different than a broken ankle. And if you think a muscular injury has nothing to do with a broken bone & torn ligaments/tendons elsewhere in the leg, you must have never been injured yourself or played any competitive sport at a high level.
Who is arshavin blocking chances for, exactly? He has 2 more assists and 1 less goal than Arteta this season. That’s a fact. Arteta has been brilliant, but everyone here is moaning and bitching and hysterical. I hope it makes you feel good. The big dollar signings will never want to play here in this climate of so called “supporters” who can be bothered to raise their voice unless it’s to boo.
There’s a huge difference in where Arteta plays and where Arshavin plays. Arshavin’s main role in the team is to assist and score goals, he is playing as the left forward of a front 3, and a few times as the creative midfielder. Arteta has been the linker, playing between Song and Ramsey, with his main role to stop the midfield from being controlled by the other team, pass the ball to Ramsey to do the creative stuff and sometimes when Song wants to push forward, to fill out as the defensive midfielder. THat is a poor comparison to make. What Arteta does is what is expected of him, what Arshavin does is nowhere near what is expected of him.
And regarding the muscle injury, I have broken my leg two times both times whilst playing football for Arsenal under 17s quite a while ago. I have done GCSE and A Level PE, getting A* and A respectively and I am now currently in University studying Physiotherapy. WHen a bone is broken, the muscle around it is weak as it is not used. This is healed in around 3 weeks. I’m not sure when DIaby broke his ankle so you have to tell me that, but I think it was around 2007?
Some people are just injury prone, he is one of them, we might as well cash in whilst he is still in the France team and his value is still high.
Jack…. “And you’re blaming Arshavin — who was desperately bought a few Januarys ago (the exact type of signing everyone is crying for)who basically single handedly kept us top 4 ahead of Villa in his first half season” ……. Exactly, buy someone who can get us ahead of Chelsea.
Level headed shit, so inept at performing their core bizness!
I don’t think Almunia is on that much….Surely not.
Sorry mate I completely disagree about your lauding of Wenger’s tactical genius in starting AOC and subbing Djorou at half time.
For months most fans have been totally bemused by Wenger’s perserverance with Arshavin who has consistently been clueless and fucking lazy. Whenever AOC has had any time on the field he has contributed more in brief cameos than Arshavin has done all season.
Djourou at full back was always going to struggle aganst Nani and bringing Yenarris on at half time corrected a glaring mistake in team selection.
The crowd had every right to make their feelings known about the substitution, we pay the highest ticket prices in the EPL.
The excuse that a young fit 18 year old who has been used sparingly can’t play 90 minutes is risible.
The AKB bullshit is doing this club no favours, it will be 7 years without a trophy and counting shortly.
I hope the club’s recent charm offensive directed at the Bloggers is not stopping you calling it as it is.
Let’s say we don t win the fa cup or the champions league and finish outside the top 4, what will the board do in the summer? Knowing them they will stick the ticket prices up and sell van persie, for all his shortcomings I still back wenger but that lot I hold in contempt
Read my original post, I don t boo arsenal players, those level headed men that run our club are not doing a very good job at the moment are they mate?
Mel, it makes it easier to read if you click the reply button underneath the post.
You’re confusing me and we’re on the same side here!
Booing is a part of sports for u all information. We need to put pressure on these lunatics for them to change the club fortune, Arsene speaks like he is the president of FIFA, he is too concerned about the business side of the sports when every other team is improving, depending on injured players coming back who will pick up niggling injuries is so sad, I will accept anything that will change how things are.
Look lads harrys up in court tomorrow- we re due a change in luck aren t we?
good post but as Wenger said, the fans who booed have paid their ticket prices and are entitled to vent their frustration however they want.
Lets face it, they’re trying to vocally show unhappiness for the Board and Manager to be fully aware, so they have an opportunity to do something about it rather than think everything is just ok.
Some may also argue that the booing after the 8-2 drubbing was a wake up call for the last minute re-enforcements………..
With United being dangerous on the counter attack and our tiring legs we were bound to be opened up sooner rather than later. If Arsene had taken Theo off and brought in Arshavin, Arshavin would have had to play right(not his usual position) to cover Yennaris for AOC to remain on the right side of midfield. Though a bit negative, tactically I thought the substitution made sense.
Your thoughts??
Personally, it wasnt the fact that AOC was substituted that annoyed me….it was that we were bringing on someone who has just been poor for far too long. I get the feeling that the boos were aimed more at who was coming on, rather than who was taken off. It just highlights the lack of decent cover on the bench. Yes Arshavin had a great first season and yes Wenger has not played him in his normal position…but he is still the last person i wanted to see coming on when we are at 1-1 and trying to get a winner while keeping it tight.
Wait a minute here. I agree with most ‘kill the dead weight players’ list, but have you seen Rosicky play the past few games? He has been actually doing a decent job or at the very least, much better than the walking disaster he was last year if you watched the draw with Newcastle.
I do not live in England, so I wasn’t in the stadium. But booing a player, even if he is terrible is just flat-out unacceptable!
How about we support the lads? For pete’s sake, if we had a song ‘Sylvain Wiltford is a gooner’ why can’t we have one about the new boys? Show some support, Jesus.
People need to relax. “Our great club is crumbling before our eyes” give me a break. go take drama classes if you like it so much.
F*ck me. As if watching that wasnt depressing enough, you go online and fall even more into the depths of despair by reading some people’s reactions. Still, everyone is entitled to an opinion…yadda yadda yadda.
If you havent done so already, i suggest you have a little read of Arsenal; the making of a superclub. What we are seeing now has been inevitable ever since we made the decision to move to Ashburton Grove. Its certainly an eye opener and you get to understand the awkward position Wenger has been put in and you start to question whether we shouldnt think about bringing someone like Dein back to the club.
Understand everyone’s frustrations but while the board see 4th place as a healthy target and the manager doesnt see winning a trophy as being important we wont be seeing any changes in the near future. The only way that will happen is for people to just not show up at a home game. That should shake them up a bit and realise they need to change the ethos of the club.
I am off to pop a valium and find a dark corner to sleep in.
its so sad he finally told us what we knew longtime ago that he picks players based on their status no performance. the russian captain has to play at the expense of 18 years old.
now we know that arsenal fc don’t need much to play good football again.although we need new signings removing chamakh and arshavin from the team and promoting park and miyaichi will save us from further embarrassment. they are good players they are just victims of wenger’s arrogance. no wonder almunia and squillaci are still here.
I am curious about this logic. Isn’t Ju-young Park captain of South Korea? The guy has barely smelt the pitch since August so how can we really asses his skill? Booing a player who underperforms or makes a critical error is a part of sport. I don’t do it but I don’t think it shows disloyalty or anything; if anything it shows how passionate the fans are and their desire for a winning club.
The only positives to take away from the game were AOC’s performance and the satisfying boos directed at Wenger.
For those blind AKBs who still can’t see what’s happening at the club, these boos are the only way we’re ever going to put pressure on that sorry excuse for a manager. The greedy board don’t care as long as their pockets are full and will never question him.
With so many in the fan base who’re still blindly supporting Wenger, its no wonder he’s got 7 years to drag this great club through the mud with his stupid experiments and stubborn useless ‘philosophy’. WENGER OUT
Wenger has forgotten how to win games. At one time it was eye pleasing football above all else.To be frank his philosophy aint working .yet he won’t change.
He has declined all offers of help including the defence coach who could have improved the defnce.
I think his time is up. Arsenal must get someone who will get the basics of the team right. Strengthening the defence is top priority.To Wenger defence aint impt.
That is why the gunners continue to lose games and why he must be off.
Thanks for a decent piece. I too, was at the Emirates yesterday and the booing left a really bad taste in my mouth. I didn’t agree with the substitution of the Ox but it’s beyond me how so-called supporters think it’s going to help the team by booing the manager and a player who has just come onto the pitch.
I hark back to a few weeks ago and the amazing return of Thierry Henry. There was an inevitability about his goal at the Emirates (again, I was there) which was in part generated by the incessant roar of the crowd behind him . In the same way, I can’t help thinking that our defeat yesterday was inevitable from the moment the crowd started its booing.
100% spot on.
Was at the game too, the gripe is not the booing (even through I don’t agree with it), but that was the only time we were vocal. At home to united, probably 2nd biggest home game of the year. Where is the support? Sure be pissed off with arsene for continued faith in underperforming players, which is probably his only issue… Resolved by getting a dein type person back….. But where was the 12th man. Make the place a wall of sound, intimidate the other team, motivate our boys. Real poor show from people who call themselves supporters.
Incidentally, to the Slag you off because you say AKB brigade, who have probably be armchair fans for 5 mins…. Lasagne season, bigger gap from top 4 at this stage. I know we should be challenging for the top, but that’s football. Your slagging arsene off for getting us into this position… I’d rather be in our position than Liverpools… It’s the same people slagging off arsene who also said we should sign downing. So it does indeed look like AKB.
Agree with this….looking round the blogs this season it seems that you are either labelled an AKB and a c*nt for trying to promote the idea of putting things in perspective, or just a c*nt for questioning Wenger’s judgement! doesnt seem to be any middle ground!
The 12th man is languishing in some dark spot, disillusioned with the stupidity of a pilot, himself so deluded and suffering a mental block, unable to realize the auto pilot is dysfunctional, resulting in the inevitable plunge!We need not belabor the fact that Arsenal fans have been very patient with Wenger.The jeers n boos are reactions from ppl pushed to the wall!Personally i wouldnt mind home boycotts to stir these dander-heads to sum positive action
The boos are valid if we were equally vocally supportive.
You charge opera prices…. You get opera fans…
30 years in the job and having made 50,000 substitutions? But how many Champion League trophy has he won? ZERO. We need Champion manager like a Mourinho or Guardiola to bring us to next level , not this 6m high pay medicroe manager.
We’re going to implode/collapse against Milan and the FA cup soon. expect the expected, the vicious cycle of trophyless is coming back again to haunt us soon.
wow the blog sums it all. someone just had to come out and defend wenger…..and you wonder why wenger has the audacity to do what he does. yes its a good anaysis but please realise even the players understand the boos were meant for wenger and they are more intouch with the fans than him. so please i m would have booed him too because yes its not the most diplomatic way to address but it was a form of expression which should make wenger and his board realize thats how far they have pushed the fans. all i see and hear is these meetings in which the fans meet and diplomatically ask wenger questions but nothing has ever yielded so i think people out to protest with their feet cos its ridiculous 7 years!7 years of going down the table and you want to sit there and still try to be diplomatic about it c’mon. they have take the mick far too long and its going to get worse unless
What the hell is an “armchair fan” anyway ?
GS i just read ur latest blog…
U are fucking fool!!!!
“Were like BB fans”?!!! We have put up with bullshit for 6 yrs. Refusing to buy players, letting our best players go, taking our team further adrift every yr!!!
“The intelligent decision to take on the 18 yr old at half time”?!!!! That lad shud be coming on when we are 3-0 up against wigan, not 1-0 down to “the champions”!!!
The fact Sagna has been out so long, along with all the other defenders & its currently the transfer window, but Wenger refuses to buy is complelely fucking stupid!!!
Spurs were great y’day, Harry spends the money when its needed. Wenger tries to spend as little as possible & then points to that as the reason why Arsenal arent winning.
Ive had enough of that annoying twat.
Fuck off.
You to GS, u dumb fuck.
Being an Arsenal fan does not mean agreeing with everything that the manager does.
I support the club, not AW, if he does something that I feel isnt in the clubs best interest, i will voice my concerns loudly. Especially as it has took our club backwards in the last 5 yrs.
He doesnt know what he is doing.
Fuck off.
Sorry, who is forcing your browser to stay on this site then?
You actually have some good points, but it’s this aggressive nature an inability to have a grown up discussion that gunnerblog highlights well.
It hurts me as much as anyone that we haven’t won anything in the past 6/7 years, but tell you what, we could have done a whole lot worse.
“Spurs were great” – they still lost though didn’t they. Agreed he spends when needed though, but he doesn’t have our wage bill – and I’ll go back to my earlier comment – it’s wenger’s reluctance to get rid of the shit that is his down fall – need a DD type figure to ship them on, admit failure, bring it better players.
Arsene Wenger met a fairy last night who granted him one wish.
“I want to live forever,and show them fan’s who booed their wrong”
“Sorry “said the fairy ,”I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that.”
“Fine” said Arsene.”I want to die when we win the Premier League.”
“You crafty cunt” said the fairy.
Haha
the reason why AW is not spending is because he already knew that we will be missing CL next season, so how is he going to attract quality players to come and how will he pay so many players (if he sign new players) the next season
so to sum this, by not signing he will have the money to pay our current team and still make a profit (by selling RVP), but if he sign a new players now he wont be making any profit instead we will be losing money and in debt get it?
In the end it’s all about the money
Being a so called armchair fan (don’t have the disposable income) my frustration stems from wengers blindness to the weakness of his squad and his inability to see the impact a lack of champions league football will have, look at Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool. we cannot wait for players on the treatment table only to have them breakdown. No cesc, bastion, wilshere too much creativity lost and not replaced, too many senior players under performing.
I totally agree!
While I agree that booing the manager is not the way to help the team in the long run I also understand why some fans may have been so frustrated that they succumbed. Baffling transfer policies is one thing but baffling team selection is another. Full backs in the modern game are specialist position because not only do they defend the flanks but have become a key attacking option. Surely it is better to play young specialist fullbacks who will gain experience with each game than players out of position and out of their depth and who are never going to adapt no matter how many games they play.
I think it is important to note that thee fans were not in any way booing the players, in fact a large number of the fanbase stayed after the game to appauled the team off the pitch. I sit behind the home dug out at the ground and when the second goal went in a fan ran from the back and was being semi restrained by the stewards. I have long been a supporter of Arsene, but it seems that he has lost a huge part of the fan base, not with that substitutiion, but over the course of this season. Arsene is like a family member to us all and critisms is always hard to hear. But if this continues Arsenal is not going to be an enjoyable place to be. I don’t want to go to games and experience hate for him like that, but this is reaction is of his own doing I am afraid. We are the highest paying season ticket holders in the country, will a rise continue without champions league football. This is not comething has happened over night, everyone has watch it slowly slip away from us and that to me is unacceptable.
I supported the booing and I support using another means even serious than booing as AW is a complete moppet and an idiot. The man has no ambition, I am sure he is expired and he should simply return to France. As long as his bank account is credited he simply does not care for the feelings of fans in the freezing waste supporting the team, for Christ sake simply get rid of all the dead woods dead wood players like, Arshavin, Diaby, Denilson, Squillaci, Almunia, Bentdner, Vela, Rosicky, Chamakh, Walcott, Gibbs, Djourou and replace with at least 3 quality players so the team can compete, we fans are simply tired of loosing games.
This shit just gets better and better. When I think Arsene cannot outdo himself. He goes and makes the worst sub I have ever seen in Football.
AKB’s I hear are saying 2-1 is a lot better than 8-2. Are you for real?
We lost yesterdays game in 2005. Fergie has said I did not know how to match the Arsenal side pre 05. But when I tried the counter attacking style it worked a treat and have stuck with it. Yesterday it was made even easier by targeting the full backs. Which both goals came from.
Fergie and his side pay attention to tactics and attention to detail. When’s the last time you have seen an Arsenal side with a game plan? Or an inspired sub that wins us a match. A sub that every manager in the land has done. The likes of Mourinho, Fergie, Guardiola even Roberto Marinez ffs.
But listen up and I quote ‘The arsenal players get confused if we go through tactics pre match’. LMAO confused? They are grown men ffs.
Onto yesterdays game. There’s no point in going into detail as the same shit happens year after year when united come to the emirates. They play on the break.
Onto the Ox. He’s already the player Theo walcott has ever been. Arsenal fans have been calling for him to start since the start of the season.
2 0f 3 of the Ox’s PL apperances are against Man u. Ask yourself why? Because Arsene is an arrogant cu*t. Cast your minds back when we we ‘bid’ for Phil Jones. Man U snapped him up. Arsene was probably pissed off. Then Arsene went after the Ox and Man u came sniffing in. Arsene couldn’t let another one of his ‘prodigy’s’ go so he bid an insane amount and got his man to the annoyance of Fergie. Arsene starting him yesterday wasn’t down to footballing reasons at all. It was down to arrogance. Saying to Fergie ‘I got the boy’.
Onto the sub. Many of you are backing Arsene by saying the Ox is fatigued? Ok fair enough. But where was this ‘fatigue’ when he made Jack Wilshere play game after game and rode him into the wall after playing 50 games? He played a lot more games than the ox at 18. Yet where was the ‘fatigue’ then? Absolute bullshit from Arsene and the AKB’s. Arsene took him off because he got senses of the Barcelona game. We were losing 1-0. RVP equalised and brought on Arsh to get the winner. Arsene is a clueless muppet. How could the fans see it was a bad sub yet Arsene who gets paid 7 million couldn’t see it. Baffles me.
If we don’t get in a major signing then bye bye top 4. Some people are saying when we finish outside the top 4 it won’t bother us too much as Arsene never goes after CL quality anyway. Fair enough. But what about when Arsene goes and a new manager comes in who is prepared to buy a CL quality player. Nobody will come to us if we don’t have CL football. Let’s be honest the spuds are a better side then us.
Would it be so bad for us to get bought by a sugar daddy? Or does that go against the ‘morals’ and the ‘ethics’ of the club?
Or more to the point does it go against Arsene’s ethics and morals?
Yet you AKB’s don’t pay attention to Arsene’s next step. Yes PSG. Just wait till he starts spending all the Arab money at PSG and spits in the face of all Arsene fans. You all just wait. Arsene is in total control of Arsenal Football Club. From the design of the emirates dressing room to the type of touchline seats he would like to sit on. He has Arsenal on absolute lockdown. AKB’s are saying why don’t the players speak out against Arsene? Why would they they get paid ridiculous amounts of money putting in half a shift and Arsene will always back his players to the hill. The players who have made a stance are cesc, nasri and clichy. Cesc is playing at the best club side in the world and will win either the CL or La liga in his first season. Clichy and Nasri will most likely win the PL. Is it me or does Clichy look like a proper LB now? City fans are saying he was their best signing last summer. That’s what happens when you play under a manager who recognises defending is as important as defending.
Any hopes of Wenger going? Not a chance. The earliest Wenger will go is 2014. PHW has already came out and said finishing outside the top 4 won’t be a bad thing. So no pressure Arsene. Your job is safe.
RVP’s reaction yesterday said everything. Bye bye RVP! Bye bye top 4. Hopefully bye bye Arsene
Good point about fatigue.
What age was Fabregas when he was playin 90 mins for us?!!!
Even if Ox did have to be subbed off, which i saw no indication off, why the fuck did he bring on Arshavin???
Arshavin shud never play for Arsenal again. Ever.
As the Ox was our best player y’day, he must start the next game. He must!!
Unless Wenger buys some established quality players, Arsenal will not even be challenging for the title for years to come.
Young Jack will be off to Man City in 2 years.
Thanks for not mentioning a defeat to a off-form Man Utd.
And an unexpected defeat due to negligence to the squad and tactics for the … 12398576th time. Oh right, there were less substitutes made.
Let’s just be honest to ourselves. Wenger has lost it, Arsenal is no longer the same club we were all supporting.
Profit first.
Football second.
Trophies & fans last.
I was in a bar and everyone reacted the same way when arshavin came on. Even the man u fans were like, ‘omg we are definitely going to win this now’.
I just think it’s all part of the wonderful culture of football, that we all can be so emotive about it and express our feelings passionately, no matter how ‘flawed’ you might say it is. It’s part of the passion, part of the excitement.
I heard a quote once “remember, it is jaded who have been most committed to the cause.” i think it’s more than a naive generalisation to say that most arsenal fans are cautiously optimistic about their team, because there have been many disappointments in the past couple of seasons. but still, it’s not like we are all going to start putting on man u scarves or something right? our club is still our club, and our cheers and jeers show the strength of our attachment to it.
wenger said it himself “man u had more maturity in every position.” at this moment, we just aren’t good enough. just not good enough.
still it’s only the 1st season that this team has played together.i really hope they all stay for a couple more seasons, i’d hate to see any more of this transfer douche business we had with you-know-who.
Next all u tits well be tellin us to show no emotion at all.
The guide to being an Arsenal fan:
> pay the most in the world for match tickets
> never disagree with the manager, if u do, keep cheering ur support anyway
> never dare to question where our money is goin
So ultimately, have no mind of ur own, just keep saying yes thanks & taking it in the ass!!
The board is without ambition (see Gazidis: no Champions League is no problem for Arsenal),
Wenger has no ambition
and this blogger has no ambition (he turned into some sort of mindless cheerleader).
They all can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
Seriously Arsenal is no longer the club it used to be!
Where’s that passing game we used to play earlier..God
Surprisingly all the teams have more possession more than us!
Have we guys forgot to play the arsenal way! Sigh
No words for that stupid decision of our beloved manager Mr Arsene took substituting Ox with a fella who has lost all his pace he used to show in his heydays! Such a wrong time for the substitution when the tempo was all high and we looked like winning! We keep talking about top 4 these days but 6 years is hell of a time even for a true gunner fan like me!
Where’s all that ambition!
I’m quite sure if our game continues like this we will lose persie,wilshere etc
Our midfield is no longer creative which can be seen from the number of assists we had from our midfield players this season…Rosicky has lost it totally and should be sold!
Walcott just shines only in his matches against chelsea!#Cole factor
Ramsey throws away every opportunity that comes to him!
I am sorry to say but its true that Arsenal is lacking all its Arsenal!
I think its high-time for wenger to either act(spend) on some quality rather than going for the cheap stuff( Park chu Young) or say Goodbye to the club!
You are the third highest paid manager in the world and you are not ready spend even you have all the resources! #WHY???
A Sad Gunner
I can’t believe that you say Wenger’s decision to start Ox is ‘bold’. Me, and everyone of my Arsenal supporting friends have been long bemused and dismayed by Wenger’s refusal to play Ox over Arshavin. This for 5-6 weeks now. Him starting Ox brought a sigh of relief from us. That said, I can see the reasoning behind bringing on Andrei. If he had done something to help us win the match, he would have been hailed as a hero, and his past lacklustre appearances forgiven. Too bad the gamble failed.
Doesn’t really make sense. If Wenger wanted to gamble reasonably, he would have taken off a poorly playing Walcott instead Oxlade.
Wenger is a self obsessed cock.
He thinks everything must be done his way, so if they win anything, he gets all the credit.
Sour bitterness cos he was a crap player.
Id take Martin O Neil tomorrow.
Someone please kill Wenger.
Stop sitting on the fence mate, you either understand the fans anger or you don’t …. And how else are supporters meant to show their anger at the way the club is being run??? Chat down the pub ?
Write a blog ?
Facebook ?
No, boo the people that have taken this club to become the 3rd best team in London,
The people are the board, the manager and some of the players….
Reality check,
The fans have been patient for 6 years, enough is enough ….. Arsenal 4 life x
I don’t know why anyone would even comment. Nothing will ever change, until Arsene decides to change it. There is no way an 18 year old had fatigue against man utd at home with 60’000 fans behind him! Its just concerning that no one on the arsenal bench realised the sort of impact both to the team and the crowd, that that sub would have. Ashavin was destined to do nothing in that game.
The only useful comment i can make, one of which every single arsenal fan would agree with, is…. Arsene Wenger would be a fantastic director of football!
Arsene Director of Football???
Oh! no, please…..what kind of support would he give to a new manager?
That would be as bad, if not worse than him being manager….
He should just leave totally, otherwise we’ll end up with more of the same for a few years more.
Arsechums,
I am hurting from the 1-2 defeat against our most bitter enemies, but I am also LARGE enough to see perspective. A 1-2 defeat against our bitter enemies hurts in the short-term, but think about how much our side has improved since the 2-8 defeat!
We are now 5 points from 4th place with half a season to go. We are integrating a new side and have sustained many injuries. Give Wenger some time! He is doing the best he can with the resources available. How many other manager would’ve thrown the Ox into the fray and told him to play with the handbrake off???? Not one.
There is still a week to go before the transfer window slams shut. I believe we have a few more surprises in store this transfer window…..
I find it amazing how the AKB’s can find such passion and disdain against the booing that erupted yesterday, yet are more than happy and content to sit back and watch Wenger drag the club down.
So we can’t blame the ref for this one, so let’s blame the fans again. You ridicule the home support for lack of vocal support, yet it’s been okay for the players to put in lacklustre performances on a regular basis for the last 3 years. Fans have been paying top dollar watching this club regress, with the likes of Eboue, Almunia, Denilson & co disgracing the shirt.
But our away support is so much better than the home support we’re told? Is that the same away support that mocked Wenger at Fulham last May, and who Henry remonstrated with at Swansea?
How else are fans supposed to let Wenger know what a mess he’s making of things? Keep it for Twitter and blogs? Are you for real? We only get the AKB muppets on here telling us constantly ‘now is not the time.’ How else do the fans communicate with Kroenke and that twat PHW that they are sick and tired with the lack of ambition they show.
But fear not, I’m sure next season will be a lot better. As droves of fans refuse to renew their season tickets with the prospect of a price hike and Europa League football, they’ll be replaced with the kind of fans the club want. Fans like these bloggers that turn up for the game, sitting contently with whatever shit is fielded. Every poor performance and dire defeat will be analysed for positives. A home defeat will be hailed as an improvement against the corresponding away defeat. Defeat by Swansea will be seen as acceptable because Swansea are a good team?
And you proper fans will be able to generate one hell of an atmosphere in a half empty ground as the Latvian champions come to town on a Thursday night. With your Arsenal plc rattles, the place will be rocking.
Stevio, you shouldn’t be amazed at the AKB behaviour. History proves that it’s in peoples nature to stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong or hope the problem will go away. In WWII, people, clever people were still not acting when Hitler invaded Finland, Czech, Poland.
Did you know that had France decided to attack Hitler in the early days; Hitler would not have had a chance.
Jesus christ you fucking fool, you are acctually balming French, germans, polish, norwegian people in general for WW2. You are the biggest idiot, ever, period. If you fucking cunt of a fool actually belive your own non-sense drivel. You are an absolute fucking fool and you clearly know nothing about history and life. You know a little about footbal, but that is it, stick to that.
I blame the harsh penalties that the Allies forced onto the Wiemar Republic after WW1, which left a weak and ineffective government, an economy in shambles, and a discontent, miserable civilian class which was ripe for rebellion and mischief making from extremist groups such as the Nazi Party.
I agree that the evils of Nazi Germany came from Hitler and his delusions, but the circumstances which lead to his rise to power fall firmly in the lap of vindictive Allied countries such as France and Britain.
Even if Hitler hadn’t risen to power, I believe there still would’ve been some sort of rebellion on the part of Germany against the Allies, purely because the financial burden that was imposed on Germany was unbearable.
That is alot closer to the truth, it had nothing to do about people putting their heads in the sand, that is for sure.
Bona you are fuckng moron. You should read what I wrote you mother fucker.
I never blamed the individual people of those countries – I was blaming the people in charge, the people who made decisions ie the people running certain countries. And FYI one of those countries was France…,.I’m not going to give you brainless fuck a history lesson – but don’t open your mouth when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Now shut the fuck up and don’t talk anymore about WWII or football because you have no fucking clue about any of it.
Mother Fucking Wanker
You have to read what you wrote. “Stevio, you shouldn’t be amazed at the AKB behaviour. History proves that it’s in peoples nature to stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong or hope the problem will go away” Here you are refering to the AKB, and that is the fans, the people. If you didn`t mean the people in general you should be more precise and talk about Gazidis etc, not the AKB`s in general. And if you still think, that WW2 started because of leaders putting thire heads in the sand. Well you are just far of the mark. It had nothing to do with anything.
And Wannadoo, please don`t cry;)
Well I’m sorry but it is in people’s nature to stick their head in the sand – People generally will not react to anything unless it adversly affects them.
Do you honestly believe that the major powers during WWII didn’t know that the mass murders of the Holocaust were happening? – and yet they did nothing until the war affected them.
That’s human nature and it will never change until education amongst other things improve……if ever.
If you don’t understand that – then you never will.
Besides, a blog is not the place to have this type of discussion (especially a football one)
You are in fact very similar to a Nazi-supporter with your inability to see things from different perspective, Ironic;)
You are a fucking moron – you’ve been watching too many Wenger interviews and now you talk like a fucking idiot too.
I think your the one who is more obsessed with AW than me, far more. Have you seen your own posts during the United game, you didn`t watch the game that is for sure;) Crazy fool;)
I’m obsessed with getting that clueless fuckwit out of our club….the sooner the better…
And if it means booing and protests during the game then I’m all for it. During the game, it’s in his face. Before or after the game he will hardly notice.
Short term evil for long term good.
I do agree with you. That is maybe the only way for supporters to show AW it is time for a change. But we/they should do it through songs, banners, protests pre, during and after the match. Not when we change players, like the Arshavin episode on sunday. Arshavin has been poor for a long time, but booing when he enters the field is not good support, Arshavin gave up before entering the field and it was sad.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we need David Dein & Usmanov in control.
Great article on Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jan/23/arsene-wenger-arsenal-mutiny-fans
That is the truth, well said. 100% correct.
GS wrote: “The explanation that he was suffering from fatigue seems to me to be entirely credible.”
What a load of bollox…..because according to the Ox, he wasn’t suffering at all….and that was straight out of the horses mouth.
So please GS, please stop writing tripe and sticking up for your gaylord master.
I got this message from a Spurs mate of mine immediately upon seeing the substitution….
“Wenger must be losing his mind!”
I sent a text back…
“No mate, he lost it ages ago!”
Arsene Wengers refusal to strengthen the squad despite the shortcomings is something of a major problem.Forget the whole Ox issue, one injury to Rvp and we can kiss our dream for this season goodbye. Yes , Ox should have played more , Wenger clearly loves to suck up to his gay child theo walcott who by now has the worst crossing rate in the premier league. Seriously when was the last time we saw a Walcott cross entering the box?!
That said , the more worrysome fact is that wenger paid about 12 million for an 18 year old , we paid the same for Nasri who started straight away? What was the whole point of paying 12 million for Ox if we are not going to play him regularly ? !!
“You have an 18-year-old kid making his first Premier League start and a player who’s captain of his country and they are querying the substitution? Let’s be serious.”
That’s the idiot Wenger’s view….this is ours:-
“You have a player who’s playing the game of his life, played an extraordinary assist and has NEVER FAILED TO IMPRESS AFTER COMING ON (even in the 8-2 game) and you have some Russian guy who is talented… but killed by the Le Proffesur and who’s last contribution was a goal against Barca (11 months ago!!). Why SHOULD’NT we query the substitution!!!???”
The worst part was to see GS sticking up for him…
RVP welcome to Madrid
Pepe, the pride of Spain!!! He sums up the mentality of the spanish peninsuala dosn`t he. RVP might leave, but he has got taste and R Madrid is not anyones taste
I don’t think RVP has taken any cheating courses.
Nor has he taken any rolling courses.
Nor has he taken any advanced courses on fouling.
Nor has he taken any courses on stamping on peoples hands.
Real Madrid are a disgrace to the word Football. You should be ashamed to support such a disgusting club. How can you watch that rubbish.
Wenger is a fool dat, he think he know everything which is not, is only we (the fan ) dat dill with this french cow, cos arsenal may not go to CL next season, let all the arsenal stand up and face wenger fool
I love my club.
So I have no idea what booing is really supposed to help in the stadium. Yes, so I show my displeasure of the manager and the players in the stadium. So that the game will improve? They will play better? The manager will be so intimidated that he will succumb to the technical nous of the fans? Or will it frighten the board into firing the manager?
Wow. The power of booing. It should be all we do.
I’m thankfully too dumb to understand booing my own club in the home stadium.
God bless the football geniuses.
And I forgot the intimidation it must have on the opposing team! I bet Manure was so stricken in awe of our booing. *shiver*
Dear Dummy
You’re right, It is better to to applaud and show your appreciation for the wonderful job Mr Wenger is doing……Get real Sonny!
We’ve had to put up with seven years of this nonsense. Seven years of watching my beloved Arsenal get worse each year. Seven years of not being vocal and biting our tongue every time that idiot makes stupid decisions. Well, enough is enough.
The buffoon has had long enough to get things right and yet he makes it continually worse. He keeps telling us, “Judge me in May” – well May has been and gone a few times and now it’s time to pass sentence.
How long should we wait before booing? I suppose in your world we should never boo no matter what is going on.
In my world it is different; If I don’t like something that is going on and I feel strongly enough about it – I try and do something about it.
Now if you want to sit on your hands and be a little sheep – that’s your prerogative. In the meantime, we’ll be the catalyst for change and you can continue to munch on the grass….eventually enjoying the fruits brought about by others.
Times up Arsene. Wenger Out!
I cannot stand what our football team has become. Answer me this, for I have not any answer: Why does Wenger keep so many non-performers for years on end? Bentdner, Djourou, Eduardo, Denilson, Almunia, Diaby, Rosicky, Vela, Arshavin? They never get sold and they don’t do bullocks for our team either. They just suck up money.
And Walcott is utter rubbish. I don’t get how Walcott is a guaranteed starter? He can’t dribble, can’t finish, cannot make a timely pass– he can only run around a lot, but so can a zebra. A zebra would probably finish with the season with more goals.
If these players had been bought in the first place by a club like Manure, they would have been shipped out years ago. We Arsenal embrace them and pay them exorbitant wages every week.
What can you say except AFC accept mediocrity? The part that really bugs me about that though is the highest priced tickets in the PL, and maybe the world?
Eduardo was sold.
ya i know he was sold, but after a loooong time of being really awful. he scored less than torres does for chelsea.
Succinctly put!
I will just add the reason this is happening is because the person in charge has no idea about what makes a quality player or how to improve players. If he hasn’t learnt that in 30 years of management, then people shouldn’t expect that to improve.
I was having a chat with my Spurs mate – (who ironically is not a big Redknapp fan) and he said that one good thing that Harry has done is cleared out most of the dross. He said it had been a problem for years, ever since he could remember. And that manager after manager would not get rid of the crappy players. Him, along with others couldn’t understand why players like Jenas where still there, and were still playing.
And now you see the results; we are 10 points behind them! FFS
It’s not rocket science, if you want the team to play well – you need good players.
And in order to get good players, you need to have a manager who can spot them and is willing to buy them.
But instead, our idiot manager gets mediocre players and overpays them….What kind of insane strategy is this?
I’ll tell you what kind….
It’s the strategy of an arrogant man, (who has no true foundations for his arrogance) and who thinks he can buy mediocre players and make them into great ones.
He thinks the development of Henry and Viera were down to him and that he can continually replicate it! What he doesn’t realise is that, even a blind squirrel will find a few nuts. And the likes of Henry et al were always going to be great players regardless of the manager.
And his arrogance prevents him from seeing that anything is wrong.
That, in a nutshell is the problem.
Players that have improved under Wenger:
1. Henry
2. Toure
3. Freddie
4. Fabregas
5. van Persie
6. Flamini
7. Pires
8. Lauren
9. Wilshere
10. Vieira
11. The Back Four
you sir are a wenger apologist. how can you say the back four when we have almost the worst defensive record in the league. the delusion of some people is staggering.
always the same people defending Wenger.Is this the same back four with practically the worst defensive record in the league
The back four obviously was a joke but besides that the man is right.
It just seems like Wenger is overestimating the potential of the current group of youngsters. However, he’s not likely to admit that mistake.
Funnily enough, the BACK FOUR wasn’t a joke. I was referring to the famous BACK FOUR that Wenger inherited from George Graham. He inherited a lovely team of lager-fuelled lads in their 30s, sobered them up and got them playing great football for 5-6 years.
You youngsters cannot imagine what Wenger did to change the culture of the club in the first few years of his management. You youngsters are still wearing young boys underwear and have yet to step into the secure firmaments of maturity.
You are clearly deluded. to suggest that Wenger and not George grahame was responsible for the ability of these guys is crazy
Players that have got worse under Wenger:
1) Almunia
Chamakh
2) Fabianski
3) Diaby
4) Rosicky
5) Ramsey
6) Arshavin
7) Walcott
9) Vela
10) Bendtner
11) Denilson
12) Jeffers
13) Suker
14) Reyes
15) Pennant
16) Adebayor
17) Wiltord
18) Hleb
19) Wright
20) Mertesacker
21) Fabregas (in the last 2 seasons he has declined)
22) Clichy
so so so true
this is what needs to be address (what alan smith said in the paper yesterday i think)…
wenger is NOT a good wholesome manager anymore…he actually makes players WORST…has a poor eye for talent now…and is not ignorant and immature in his interviews and interactions with refs..officials etc that he has become the laughing stock and biggest joke of the EPL
please god…swap mourinho for wanker wenger
people always say arsenal should not let wenger go, they would be awful. i cannot agree with this. yes, he raised our stature in his time here and is probably an arsenal legend.
but in the past 5-6 years the team is getting worse and worse and he is getting more and more stubborn, blindly oblivious. We were a top 10 European team methinks where players wanted to go, now we are very close to finishing 7th-10th in the premiere league and RVP leaving, and nobody significant wants to come here.
i love arsenal, but for me i’d be glad if wenger takes the real madrid job.
i hope when he does leave one day he spills the beans about whether it is the greedy board who will not allow him to spend funds to field a competitive team. i don’t what to to believe here. is it the board? is it him? is it both? it’s not even his money, so he shouldn’t mind if the board spends spends spends. why wouldn’t he want world class players.
Wright only got worse due to age. The man was a true Arsenal legend and one of the best ive ever seen play for us
This, just proves that our manager is insane……
Here’s the Headline:
Arsenal boss criticizes Spurs dealing – Wenger questions Adebayor loan deal
“Personally, I would not (just) ban players on loan from playing against their own clubs. What I would like to see in the Premier League is that you are not allowed to loan players over the age of 21″
“Therefore, I think it would be better if players over 21 didn’t go on loan in the top league.”
When asked about his own loan signing of 31-year old Yossi Benayoun from Chelsea, Wenger immediately clarified:
“But we were on the last day of the transfer window. We knew that Jack Wilshere would need surgery.
So tell me, would a normal person bring up this issue if he had just done exactly the same thing?
The guy (Wenger) is a total fruitcake.
Wenger is a joke. And Bendtner to sunderland ?
Was speaking to some work-mates today, and they were basically saying that this is the first time in 20 years, where their squad has 80-90% good players. Usually their sqaud is 60% DROSS.
Guest what boys and girls, this current Arsenal squad (by my estimation) is 50% PURE DROSS.
DROSS PLAYERS OR ON-LOAN DROSS :
Almunia
Fabianski
Mannone
Squillaci
Djourou
Diaby
Arshavin (Wenger partly to blame)
Benayoun
Denilson
Rosicky
Park
Chamakh
Park
Walcott (Wenger partly to blame)
Bendtner
Vela
THE DROSS CLEARLY OVERSHADOWS THE FEW GOOD PLAYERS WE HAVE.
Is Wenger gonna shift out/sell 10-15 DROSS players in one season ? clearly not. It’s taking him 6 years to assemble this dross!!
WENGER OUT.
Who do your work mates support? Spurs?
Yeah Spurs, forgot to mention!
A team of great players:
Chezza
Sangers Vermie Kozza Gibbsy
Jacks Schlong Arteta
Theo van P Gervinho
True, there’s not much below this layer of fine quality beefcake footballer, but this is a quality lineup and worth of a 4th place trophy.
And here’s a great of youngster who look the goods:
Ryo, Oxo, Benny Afobe, Chucks, Rambo, Frimmers, Le Coq, Joey Campbell.
The Future is Bright!
The Future is Red With White Sleeves!
That said, I wouldn’t say no to Hazard and Vertoghen in the Jan transfer window. LOL!
A wise man once said that a journey of 1000 miles begins with finding well-supporting, non-chafing underwear for your gigantic member.
That wise man was the Wegster.
Like the rest of you, I miss Cesc. Whatever his faults as a footballer, a son, a nephew, a Spaniard, a man, a gooner, a Londoner and a Catalonian freedom fighter, he was spirited.
There’s nary a player on the side now who would dress in a puffy parka and spit on opposition assistant mangers. THAT’S the Arsenal way!
Wegster, you got to stop drinking the beer mate.
The “uprising” at the Emirates sunday is a symptom of a greater ailment. The substitution of Ox for Arshavin may have been the instantaneous catalyst for but by no means the source of the discontent.The team has been well managed by coach Wenger in the past and may well be again. However it is been ill prepared to face the challenges of the league too often this year just as in last year and recent years past.
Perhaps it is too big of an ask for us to expect 3 points from Man-U with such a depleted side. But,Bolton,Blackburn,Fulham,Swansea,Stoke?
There is something amiss and Le boss is part of it. From the poor or non-handling of last summer’s transfer window to the predictable formations and suicidaly high line. The refusal to bring in a fullback knowing he would be without one for MONTHS.
This is a team in decline. It is not irreversable or unavoidable. But something is going to have to change. Change is not something Coach Wenger embraces or even admits to needing.
It’s irreversible for “coach Wenger” because he is a total idiot.
He behaves like you’d expect a Spurs double agent to behave.
It’s like someone paid him off to ruin us.
Oh well, it’s late and it’s time for bed. I’ve had enough of talking about this idiot – I just wish he’d piss off and leave us alone.
I don’t understand why we’re going on a tour of Nigeria, when all the monies are coming from the East Asian countries and the USA. We have a billionaire sports magnate in Stan Kroenke, we should have a leg-up in terms of the American market.
No offence to Nigerian gooners, but surely the economic benefits of a Japanese or South Korean base would out-weight the benefits of a Nigerian base????
I don’t like how they say that football considerations must overweight commerical considerations in terms of overseas jaunts. This is coming from the same epople who won’t buy reinforcements we need, or buy cheap, geriatric replcaements, because the commerical considerations need consdiering.
Wishere!!!! SET BACK! Nooooooooooooo!!!!
Yes, a Wilshere setback. Who wouldda thunkit?
Trust me there will be a Gibbs setback a Sagna setback a Jenkison setback and (another) Diaby steback. But why bother bolstering the team with a few quality transfers when it’s clear we don’t need any. Oh by the way Chamakh will be back soon. Morocco lost again.(go figure). I guess that’s the good news?
Well…. errrrr…. overall I belieeeeeeve it depends upon what you call a “setback”
I am pretty sure that arsenal players are the only players who gets injured while they are injured. It is hysterical, and what is up with Diaby he has been out with a hamstring for over two months, that is a long time.
It was the first time Wenger was barracked by his own fans.
But the Frenchman accepted it and added: “I’m not bothered by that, frankly. I’m paid to make decisions and you always need someone to make decisions.
“When you have 60,000 people in the stadium there are always 100 or 200 who have different opinions. I have managed many more games than all the people in the stadium.”
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seriously, what the fuck is he on about?!!
he just makes up a fake scenario & then tries to justify the logic in it!!
next season he will be saying that if we finish in the top half of the table, its a success, considering the profit he made in the transfer market.
i wonder what our line up will be tomorrow…
lauren campbell keown cole
freddie petit vieira pires
bergkamp henry
“yesterday….
all my troubles seemed so far away…
now it looks as tho there here to stay…
how i believe in yesterday”
It was better to keep Vela than loan him and buy Park…
The five things that England is most famous for:
1. Sheep farming and animal husbandry in general
2. Calling people “old fruit”
3. Beatrix Potter
4. Poor weather
5. Losing the Ashes against Australia
It’s a crying shame that The Arsenal aren’t in the top 4. There was a time during the early 00s that The Arsenal had nudged Losing the Ashes against Australia from #5, and looked good for a Top 4 spot, but has since fallen to the wayside.
The Arsenal are now the 116th most famous thing that England are famous for.
Jolly poor show, old fruits!
Here’s an interesting bagatelle, dear Arsechums.
http://tinyurl.com/88dqz7s
It says, with typical Aussie parochialism, that since the rest of the world is learning English, it is unnecessary for young Aussie students to trouble their minds with Asian languages. We Aussies would be better served learning something more important, like surfing or sheep shearing. And if we were to trouble our minds with a foreign language, it would make no difference between a European or an Asian language.
Now, I learnt both Chinese and French at high school, and I’ve got to say that I’ve used Chinese much, much more than French in real life. I’ve used French to insult snooty French waiters behind their backs, and I’ve used it once to watch Amelie without subtitles. I use Chinese just about every week to speak to clients, lost tourists and to insult snooty Chinese waiters behind their backs.
Now, I realise I could also use French to translate L’Equipe and see which new French wonderkind we’re intent on snapping up again, but that’s an exercise in futility, isn’t it dear chaps?!
The Future’s Bright!
The Future’s Red with White Sleeves!
Arsenal Forever!!!!
GS – this blog is fucking shit
Update it more than once a week
And stop blindly defending AW all the time, its boring & cowardly
People that just agree with whatever AW does, has no mind of their own & just agree with the man in charge
They are called sheep
We need leaders
In Arsene we Trust…
lol…useless fucking prick.
Still think Wenger’s a good manager?
Outwitted by that great football manager; Alex McCleish.
Can’t wait for GS the Appologist to say….”The good thing now is that we can concentrate on getting into the top 4
cue….
“We showed tremendous spirit and quality”
Yes Arsene, tremendous spirit to beat The Mighty Villa..
Poor wanadoo. That comeback must have been very hard for you to watch!
What comeback Jeff?
We had 2 penalties and one lucky other goal.
The whole thing is a cover up for Wenger’s failings. It’s like putting on a ton of make up on an old hag.
Face it, we barely beat Villa and it took two penalties to do it….
AKB’s…your time to step up….
These Akb’s will never learn… Wait for the rise of akb’s later on
I can’t see how this proves anything, we were two goals down to a very average Villa side BY HALF TIME AT HOME and the ‘comeback’ was largely down to good fortune – a decent ref that had the bottle to award two penalties and a HUGE slice of luck for Walcotts equaliser (AKBS ignore the fact that Walcott shooting was the wrong choice, watch him do it again and hear the same mugs groan when it goes wide)
All this shows is that Wenger is still a poor manager, remember that we still didnt CREATE a goal from our passage of play – although we had Villa under pressure they stood firm until they gave away those penalties. A more resolute team would have held on to that lead and then muppets wouldnt be singing Wengers praises like he’s the second messiah.
Why was Ox took off last week???
How can he play 89 mins a week later?!!!
You are a fool. Who knows why. Why did Jack Wilshere play the whole of last season, but non this season???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Wake up (what an appropriate name)
Someone resuscitate this bloke – he’s in a Wenger trance – the dumb kind.
Here’s the GS report…
MASTER TACTICIAN WENGER INSTIGATES GREAT COMEBACK
Blah blah blah Spirit blah blah blah blah blah blah
Half time turnaround blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah Mental toughness blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah Kick start the campaign blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah City / Utd out blah
blah blah blah blah Wenger tactics
blah let’s do it for Jack blah blah
blah blah blah showed focus blah
And here is Wanadoo`s respons:
Blah blah blah cunt blah blah blah blah blah blah
Half time fuck blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah cunt blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah Kick start the fuck blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah fuck / cunt out blah
blah blah blah blah look at me I`am so pretty.
blah let’s do it for cunt blah blah
blah blah blah I am always right.
Blah blah blah blah I hate it when Arsenal win. Blah blah blah blah I am a spurs fan.
Blah blah blah blah…………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
ha ha sucker punch…!!
Well I’m not always right but have been about 90% of the time – you can see that by my pre-season predictions…
Whereas you, have no independent thought at all, and let that fool of a manager guide your every thought.
I think Manky, Wanado and Me are the same person. I like to call him Wanky-Me. I think we should all start calling him that now.
I think this domains name should be set free.
This site is a waste of time.
Yeah, and you can start by not clicking onto this page;)
Koscielny performance has been exceptional. Seriously which CB dashes all the way to the penalty box and wins a penalty.
Uhhh…. Vermaelen?
Errr….the kind of centre back that has allowed us to concede the second most goals in the top 15!!
Maybe if he concentrated on his defensive prowess rather than jumping forward at every opportunity – we’d have let in less goals…..what do you think? (rhetorical)
LET’S DO IT FOR AARON!! LOL
Thomas Eisfeld!
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2012/01/30/2875748/arsenal-close-in-on-400000-signing-of-borussia-dortmund
The teenager’s development has been hindered by keee problems – he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in 2009
I think Wenger does it on purpose so that he has something to complain about when key players are out with injury.
We all know the reality that whilst Wenger, Kroenke and Gazidis are in charge Arsenal will never ever splash the cash.
Nice to have won for a change. I’ve seen this team fold up the tent after going two down so there is something to be said for that.
Well, on to Bolton.
COYG!!!
Yes, it is nice to have won. But….
I’m sorry, but coming back to win 3-2 by getting two penalties and a ricocheted deflected goal – proves nothing.
If by luck,deceit,or any other piece of magic we could defeat Bolton,Balckburn and Sunderland in our next 3 fixture I should be more than happy to take the 9 points; all the while proving nothing.
That’s a fair point.
In fact, I shall go another step further and say that if we happen by miracle or devine intervention or just plain dumb luck secure 4th spot I will be happy whilst it proves nothing.
WEG I think I am you as well…… Did you know I am taking a shit as I type this. Pretty tricky eh?
MM, I’M TAKING A SHIT NOW WHEN I’M WRITING THIS!!!!!!!
WE COULD BE TWINS!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s difficult, because I tend to splay my legs apart when I’m sitting down (due to my downtown area), and it makes for a precarious perch for my laptop.
BUT IT’S DOABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Deadline day deal!! Ryo to Bolton on loan, wenger and coyle to swap!!! Wow what a deal for afc, but sucks to be ryo
What is happening at Arsenal is a direct outcome of Wenger’s inability to carry on the clubs traditions.
Most AKBs will go one about how the Invincible’s defence was ‘Wenger’s Defence’. This is true, but let me tell you why it’s also a lie. Most knowledgeable Arsenal fans will tell you how Graham drilled his defence daily, to the point where he’d attach a rope around all 4 defenders – so they would all be in the same position. The likes of Dixon, Winterburn, Bould, Keown & Adams being involved in these drills daily. The entirety of that back four/five were in place when Wenger arrived in 1996. Wenger arrived, and had to do NO WORK on the Arsenal defence at all, this much is clear for all to see.
The likes of Dixon, Winterburn, Bould, Keown & Adams (and I’ll include Parlour) were still at the club when Lauren, Campbell, Toure, Cole were introduced to the club. I’m not gonna say the old back four exactly taught the new defenders how to defend, but what they quite clearly gave them is STANDARDS. Pride in defending. I remember reading stories that Lee Dixon & Ray Parlour were almost throwing Henry & Bergkamp up against the lockers, telling them how important certain games are to the club & to the fans.
Henry, Ljungberg, Vieira, Pires, Edu, Wiltord, Kanu, Edu & Gilberto. These are players who when they came to the club, were under no illusions about the standards which needed to be met. Not just technical standards, but having character & determination to fight/play for the shirt.
Now think to yourself, why are legends like Dixon, Winterburn, Bould, Keown, Adams & Parlour not being employed in some kind of capacity at the club ?………..All part of Wenger’s egotism & arrogance. Ask yourself why another legend, Patrick Vieira, is not being employed at Arsenal ? Even though he openly stated how he’d like to go back and work at Arsenal ? Why is Dennis Bergkamp not working at the club ?
Anyone know ?
Who remembers Ashley Cole telling the story of Senderos completely disrespecting Martin Keown in training once ? Martin Keown was trying to give Senderos some tips & Senderos walked away from Keown in mid-conversation! Utter disgrace. Wenger has got away with A LOT of things in his Arsenal career (ie. Inheriting a Class Back 4/5). This is where I go back to standards. When Vieira, Edu, Petit or Pires weren’t pulling their weight in midfield, you think Adams, Dixon, Keown etc..weren’t letting them know about it ? HOW STUNNED EVERYONE WAS WHEN WALCOTT HAD A GO AT JENKINSON FOR BEING OUT OF POSITION AGAINST MAN UTD!! HOW STUNNED WE ALL WERE!!
Who hands out the ‘on-pitch bollockings’ now, when players aren’t pulling their weight ? Could you seriously imagine Arshavin getting away with his laziness in 2002-04 sides ?………Simply put, no. Wenger got extremely because when he arrived all he done was adjusted the players diets & taught them how to play in the attacking third of the pitch. Wenger is, and always has been unable to install bollocks & character into teams which are PURELY HIS OWN. FOR THE LAST 5/6 SEASONS his teams have PURELY been his, no back four handed down, no players in this squad have learnt from the old guard. The last player we had which learnt from the Old guard is Fabregas, and we all know where he is now!
Couple things which have stood out to me over the last year or so….
• Fabregas saying in an interview that Wenger would be sacked at any other top club. To this day, Cesc hasn’t denied giving this interview, Wenger never disagreed with anything what was said in the interview. He just said they wouldn’t grant permission for that Magazine ever again. The magazine also posted FULL AUDIO of the interview on their website.
• Rosicky turning his back on 2 free-kicks at Old Trafford, before he even knew they had gone in. Yet the same guy is installed as captain against Olympiakos.
• In an 8-2 mauling at Old Trafford. Wenger doesn’t leave his seat once during the entire 90 mins.
• Wenger saying “I like Chamakh cos he doesn’t say too much”…..that’s the way lads, don’t say anything & Wenger will love you!!
• Wenger endorsing a strict wage structure at Arsenal – yet is all too happy to take home £7m per annum. Therefore earning more than any player.
• And the old classic from 2/3 years ago from Wenger “Winning isn’t everything”
I think the best thing to happen to Arsenal is the interview that Kroenke gave last week. “Wenger has a job for as long as he wants”. Thank you Stan, at least we now know the full extent of the shit this club is in. I thank Wenger for what he ‘oversaw’ from 1996-04. But when it comes to Wenger actually building teams, purely through his coaching, he is a busted flush, a myth, a fraud, a liar.
David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle : “Remember who you are, what you are and who you represent.” << Shame Wenger has destroyed these ideals given from another legend.
Arsene FC / 2005 – Present.
Just one correction…
Bould is the under 18 coach.
Kem – a true ledgend when it comes to articulating accurate factual judgement of the man that destroyed and continues to destroy our club – A Wenger!
well said Kem…bring it to the next Q&A and read it out…i wish gunnerblog didnt ignore this comment you made Kem and actually tried to justify and protect his precious wenger!
It’s been months. But you know what time it is?! That’s right. ITS GELBS’ TIME YOU CUNTS!!!
Begun this around 2007/2008 (2006 I called it and had major doubts), and there is so much more, which proves how bad and repetitive everything has become. And a Cunt of a manager and Club who’s former star player in Fabregas wanted out from this shower of shit because of the crap he is surrounded with and lack of ambition and lack of silverware, refuses to strengthen to show him and It’s fans that they mean business. Too busy making money for themselves. And Wenger the Cunt himself, stating he would be happy to finish second for the next 20 years. And yet he can’t even achieve that! What kind of loser mentality, particularly for a big club is that?!! Not to mention people defend the prick for not winning anything for 6 years is down to no money to spend. If he were such a great manager as morons claim, then why would he need money to win trophies?! He can’t even win ONE trophy! And besides, it isn’t even just about winning silverware. It’s the whole mentality. Rotten right through the core. Top to bottom. A manager that’s not interested in winning and spending the required money, and on an ego trip. A board who only cares about profit alone. Sell high, buy low. Financially, a fantastic plan. But from a footballing side perspective. A recipe for disaster.
A Club who’s motto is “forward” in celebrating it’s 125th anniversary, is kinda ironic, when they’re keeping hold of a deadbeat manager, who is living off past glories…
People say Fabregas signed a long-term deal a few seasons back, and should honour it and no-one forced him to. More like Wenger manipulated him into signing it, and promising all this shit like he tried in vain with Henry. Now, Fabregas isn’t as young and naive anymore, he’s realised the bullshit. Chugging along, playing his heart out, and noticed it is all one-sided and flawed. The die-hard defenders claimed that when Wenger finally leaves, all Arsenal’s “so-called” best players will follow suit. Well, they already wanted out. What does that say? Wenger claims he will keep certain players, but lies or fails to keep those kind of promises, and ends up losing key players, despite stating it would be the wrong kind of signal to send out to others. What a bastard. And even if he does finally wake up, after years of not making the right kind of signings etc, this should of been done ages ago. And would of convinced the likes of Fabregas and Nasri to stay. Not to mention a harsh (but slight) wake-up call via a 8-2 thumping of Man United. If he had drawn or lost that match, he really wouldn’t of done nothing. Thank United for doing that! Best thing that could of happened to Arsenal. He may even of had his hand forced from higher up as well. Not even his own choice. Either way, too little, too late.
People claim no player is bigger than the club. And that’s true. But they also claim the team can cope without a big player leaving. Time to move on. But then why is it different for a change in manager then?! A player may not be missed. If replaced. So surely a manager can as well eh?
The Club’s a laughing stock. Sooner it goes tits up, and Arsenal learn the hard way, the better. The more cunts who re-new their season tickets (mainly the Wenger brigade) etc (and yet still complain), is the reason the board and Wenger get away with it continually. If some die-hards claim we don’t have a “divine right” to win trophies, then equally, why does Wenger deserve a “divine right” to stay at Arsenal because he won silverware years ago?!
Fucks me off something chronic, when die-hard idiots defend Wenger because he changed that, because he changed this. Errrr. One major flaw with that. What has a successful past got to do with a shite present?! Brian Clough bought success to Forest then got them relegated. Prime example of making and breaking a team. Stayed too long. If Arsenal win nothing much within the next 5-6 years, you’d still get wankers defending Wenger because he changed the dietary methods 20 years ago, and won league titles 15 years ago etc etc. Remarkable. The fact he also inherited from Graham, the winning mentality, defensiveness, power and strength from Adams, Keown, Bould etc who passed it on to Vieira and co. makes you wonder if he’d of won anything. Not taking anything away from his success’, but seeing now how poor Arsenal have been for ages, no drilling for the defence nor fighting and “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” attitude. Whole situation stinks!
A man too, who claims “We SHALL win a trophy this season!” yet “throws” and shows utter contempt towards competitions i.e. FA Cup and League Cup, in favour of the more “bigger” prizes/competitions, in which they never come close to winning neither, so completely, and utterly, pointless! And how “This summer, I plan on keeping the squad together” and fails miserably.
Seeing him try and take the League Cup more seriously now, after years of contempt, and still not winning it, is such an ironic thing. So desperate to try and make it look like his “project” as finally come to fruition.
Get somebody else in to give it a chance and take us back to the heights Wenger can no longer do. Or WON’T do.
Someone who hasn’t won a pot for years, in a position to chuck any competition under no pressure from the board is way beyond words. Lack of squad depth? Who’s to blame for that then?
Wenger has had 6 years. Plenty of time to deliver but hasn’t. In football, you judge someone in the recent past and present to be fair. And Arsenal’s last few seasons have been in general, shit and trophy-less. Wenger takes the plaudits when we were successful, now he has to take the majority of blame for the ultimate failings…
After the 2004 season, The Cunt thought that winning the League unbeaten, was as good as it got.
So, with his ego (his “master-plan”), he thought he could build a team with youth, whilst spending next to nothing and winning stuff, although not as bothered as seeing his shit play so-called “wonderful” football. And using the stadium move and lack of money as a smoke screen for his “project.”
He thought it would take 5 years tops. Although believed it would take sooner. Obviously, it all went wrong. Rather than admit defeat and do something about it, he refused to, whilst then claiming 3rd/4th was a trophy within itself.
People bang on about it being an achievement, which it isn’t. Done well in small doses sure. But ask yourself this, if UEFA wasn’t so generous with it’s 4th spot qualifying, would it be deemed such a glorious success?
It is shit because he has FAILED to build upon the squad year after year, and ultimately, has won fuck all. And a total disgrace being offered a new contract of at least 6 million quid a year AND a 20 per cent pay-rise on top of!! Hill-Wood the prick, saying in regards to Gallas’ contract, how players need to know the value of money, and realise that money doesn’t grow on trees. Yet bump up season ticket costs on top of already being the highest paid ticket in world football, to watch utter dross and a team of bottlers and losers. Total contradiction and disgust! No money? Simple. Get Usmanov. But we all know he’d put pressure on Wenger to spend and be booted out.
And again, any top draw manager could finish at least 4th at WORST with this squad. But then, it would be inaccurate to say that anyway, because any decent manager who came in would add/replace players significantly in order to achieve success. At least make an attempt. Not buying success, but spending what is required and building upon the squad currently. This Cunt has shown nothing but contempt and negligence, that Arsenal after years, STILL require 3 or 4 top players at LEAST to make them successful again.
Fact of the matter remains. Regardless of CL qualification. 6 years without nothing and no progress whatsoever. Taken 6 years to try and build a top draw squad with which there is no end product. The squad doesn’t even look convincing. Weaker every summer. Key members of the squad sold as their contracts wind down and are left too late to be re-newed, whereas the more worse and mediocre players constantly get contract extensions with pay-rises thrown in. The best players end up leaving anyway, because they’re tired of playing with shit and winning nothing. Even though they’re part of the downfall themselves!
10 per cent doing well in CL qualifying, 90 per cent shit on the whole for under-achieving and winning shit. I could be manager of Arsenal and win shit for 6 years, anyone could. I might miss out on a CL place, but then if Wenger did, I doubt he would STILL get sacked!! I sure as shit too, bet Wenger would spend money more if it was the top 2 only who qualify for the Champions League! 4th at worst is a comfort zone. He said himself once, that it should only be the “Champions” in it. Yeah, easy to say that when he use to win the Premier League. Something which was years ago and never to be repeated again under his reign. Considering too that, 2 of his trophies came a different century ago, and a decade almost since the other two of his 7 major honours.
Oh, and maybe stability breeds success. After-all, look at the incredible success and trophies Dario Gradi bought to Crewe after so many years of him being their manager!
People also brand Wenger a genius. Truth is, the bloke is an idiot! Why would a genius make the same old simple and many mistakes eh? Bunch of Wenger (magic) ass-hats. And does a so-called “genius” go a total since they have been at a club of around a DECADE without a trophy?! And does a genius who has had such wonderful, world-class players at their disposal, have such a shit general record in Europe and never won a CL and back-2-back league titles?!
Bloke wants to admit defeat, gain respect by fucking off to Japan or France and take the board of directors with him. Prove how “good” he is by building a young/youth team with a small club over there for peanuts. Then if he makes them world-class, THEN we can say he is a genius. What a prick. Fucked Arsenal just like he did with Monaco. In fact, even worse. At least they had the balls to drop kick him into touch where they replaced him with Tigana. Who went that extra step and signed the right players in order to achieve success. Same as the great George Graham said on his arrival as Arsenal manager: “If you can’t think big, or act big, at a club like Arsenal, you may as well crawl under the carpet….” Wenger needs to crawl and rot under his Aubusson. It was a shame the board never shared Graham’s ambitions too, restricted to a shoe-string budget and strict (at the time) wage policy which got thrown out the window when he was sacked. If the board bent over backwards for Graham like the Cunt Wenger now, he would of been even more successful! Particularly when Graham made Arsenal a lot of money for his successes.
Thinking there is a conspiracy against Arsenal too, is also typical of being a Cunt and when decisions etc go against him. Should take a long hard look in the mirror and closer to home. Always someone else’s fault.
It amazes me why people continue to defend this man to the death. He is seriously fucking up Arsenal, to a point, if he did leave, no world-class players would want to join Arsenal anyway. Won’t ever change under Wenger. All true and the truth hurts. With a French git who speaks such shit and thinks The World is against Arsenal.
That is why I dislike Wenger, not just because of the lack of success recently, it is the refusal to learn from the ultimate, simple a lot of the time mistakes, and the constant “bigging” up of his team when they aren’t good enough, and the repetitive shite he continues to spout. Whatever he once achieved at Arsenal is history. He will be remembered as the maker and breaker. Most successful manager (trophy-wise), but also, the most under-achiever for single-handedly destroying his own legacy and undoing everything he ever done. Fact!
Wenger said in the summer of 2005, when he sold Vieira, he had a “Master-plan” and “Trust me”. I guess that that plan and the trust in him, was to finish with fuck-all 6 seasons on the trot, whilst watching your fiercest rivals sweep the lot between them. Champions Leagues, League Titles, Doubles etc. How wonderful. The cunt’s ego is writing checks his body can’t cash (“Top Cunt”) and he is a skinny fucker too. Starved of success. Whilst everyone else involved with The Arsenal (mainly the fans) has to suffer.
Seeing United and Chelsea etc win shit, you’d think would agonize and make Wenger etc more determined to do something about it. Particularly as he stated himself he hates losing. Wouldn’t of thought so based on recent seasons…
Wenger apologists always point out we were “shit” before Wenger came along and were a “mid-table team”, which has a whole is utter shite, because it was only around twice (1993 & ’95) we were mid-table. And even then we made history by winning the two cups.
1993 and 1995 was the only real time in recent years prior to Wenger we were mid-table, but ultimately, still a VERY successful side. Second most successful era/period since the 1930′s.
In 1993, we still won a cup double which was a first in those days, so not at all a bad season and was a fantastic triumph when the League Cup meant something back then. So in fact, it was only really 1995 (still reached CWC Final again and unlucky to lose) and 1996, we had 2 “shitty” seasons until Wenger came along. In fact, Graham himself, only finished outside the top 4 like 3 times in his 9 seasons or so he was at Arsenal.
People are also quick to harp on about how we wouldn’t even be where we are today without Wenger. Damn right about that!! Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Same people, however, aren’t as quick to notice that the past 6 seasons, which have been shit, are also thanks to Wenger.
After 2004, it is sure shit to be an Arsenal fan. Maybe as well, we don’t have the funds to get players in (although we all know we do which has been proven) because of the new stadium etc. Well, if that’s true, sounds like a right hash job and not thought through enough, with crippling debts. Might be good for the future, but by then, probably be a lower division side. Yet again, you can blame Wenger, seeing as he was the one behind the new stadium and the one with the “vision”. Not to mention the disgraceful wage bill which is one of the highest around, particularly in England. Paying over-rated crap which aren’t good enough, nor win anything PERIOD. Total fucking shambles. Even for a small amount, you telling me there isn’t an affordable batch of players out there, better than Diaby, Denilson, Bendtner, Chamakh et al?!
Wenger himself, one of the highest paid managers in World Football, on at least 6.5 million a year, to win fuck all, and be under no pressure to deliver at all. Even more than Ferguson at United. Money for nothing.
Building a bust for the bloke as well, when he is still at the Club and completely over-rated, and single-handedly destroyed his own Legacy he created.
Brilliant times though eh? After we won the FA Cup (un-deserved playing negatively and shit, something Wenger hates and slates other clubs who do that against us whom we struggle) in 2005, we have had to watch Liverpool, Chelsea and in-particularly, Man United, sweep the lot between them, i.e. CL and the PL. What a wonderful place to be in! And people reckon us Arsenal fans are spoilt! What the fuck does that make United and Chelsea fans then eh?! United dominated the 90′s, and now the 2000′s!
And who can forget Avram Grant, reaching his first CL Final in only a few months, someone who was inexperienced and might not even had the right coaching badges etc. Something Wenger had taken a decade to do in reaching the final, and still not won a Champions League! In fact, the only manager to reach all 3 finals of each European competition and lose!
SACK THE BOARD AND WENGER!! It is the only way forward if Arsenal are to win trophies. Lie to the fans. Just because Wenger wants to do it his way and bring on shit kids and basement/bargain buys just to save a few bob, who are too young (or old and has beens or never beens of will be) and not good enough, then blame the lack of success on “Lack of maturity.” A self-inflicted, repetitive wound..
And people defend Wenger (Arsene knows brigade and apologists) stating the board are letting Wenger down in regards to transfer money. Wenger is the fucking man behind it!! He wanted to move to the stadium and do things on the cheap with his “Experiment” (his word) and brain-washed the board to the point they are now BOTH to blame. Wenger doesn’t even spend the money which we all know we have which is proved. Said himself he wouldn’t spend 100 million if he could because of hampering the younger players development etc. Nor did he spend big anyway when at Highbury, but still managed to compete and became successful. And if there really is NO money, then guilty by association. Happy to line their own pockets first. Both tight cunts, although Wenger is the main culprit as he is still given the opportunity to spend money (and the board believe the sun shines out of his arse and would happily bend over for him financially if he wanted to spend big), but the board are happy for him NOT to spend it, hence making a saving. Either way, Wenger has wasted a lot of money of cheap and piss poor signings. Not to mention high wages for crap players. And some of these players want out, but no-one else wants them, due to their extortionate salary and mainly, because they’re such average players.
Plus, Wenger said success can only be measured in time. Okay then. Have it your way:
7 trophies in 15 years not bad at first glance. But add up a total of a DECADE of not winning anything, no back-2-back Titles EVER, no Champions League EVER, 3 League Titles in 15 seasons, and no Title for 7 seasons, and a trophyless 6 seasons on the bounce. 10 seasons out of 16 of NOTHING!
Overall, shit ratio. Well done, Arsene!
Now Fabregas has gone, seeing as the team was built around him, Wenger will fuck off or get a golden handshake, and the Arsenal board leave too, because daddy left, leaving it someone elses’ problem to hire a new manager and leaving the club in the shit. Probably end up Arsenal having the best stadium in the Coca-Cola Championship. With sad fucking Wenger Cunts with banners sat there saying “Arsene Knows.” “Bring back Arsene!” We are shit. Fucked. Finished. Back to mediocracy like the 80′s until Graham saved us and turned Highbury into practically a full house and not just 20,000. Out of the darkness, into the light….
When you got a manager and board of directors happy and content with winning nothing and finishing 3rd and 4th, you are never gonna be successful again.
Wenger has gone full circle. He made Arsenal and made them successful, and now taken them right back to where they started when he joined way back in ’96 when the team went a little bit stale and no trophies for a couple of seasons. In fact worst as far as trophyless seasons go. Although they weren’t as shit as everyone made them out to be prior to Wenger. When he leaves, the Club will be worse off than ever, and all the money he has saved up, leave Arsenal in a fantastic situation financially, which will be brief before The Board sell up and a new owner pumps debt into the Club. So completely, and utterly, pointless…
Wenger’s 2004 Invincible season, something which may not ever happen again, was his swan song. The worst sequence of runs since 1980 to 1986 where Arsenal never won anything until George Graham took up the reigns. And even he never went more than one season without fuckall!
Sinatra style, with Wenger singing – “And I fucked Arsenal……………MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“It is unacceptable for a big club to go 4 years without a league title.” – Arsene Wenger.
No League Title for Wenger for 7 years, and trophy-less for 6 and counting…………
“Imagine the worst situation – we lose Fabregas and Nasri. You cannot convince people you are ambitious after that. You cannot pretend you are a big club.” – Arsene Wenger, then loses those two players who wanted out.
Wenger for me, was once a very good manager at Arsenal, but never a great one……
Arsenal….Where failure and losers are rewarded…
THE END.
Wow, that’s long. Most of us here are suffering from post envy due to the length of yours, Gelbs! Not me, though, I have something else which keeps EVERYTHING in perspective!
It sounds very wrong but I was almost wishing Bolton would get the penalty. Just to underline just how bad the situation at Arsenal really is.
Doesn’t sound wrong at all.
So we sit 7th in the league!
My August Prediction….
Wanadoo AUGUST 19, 2011 AT 9:28 PM
You lot are a bit of a joke – What the fuck is wrong with you all – we got Carl “Fucking” Jenkinson and Mr Miyagi’s nephew: just let Joey Barton try his antics again.
Now, if that doesn’t quench your thirst for the coming season – then you well, errr, you’d be right!
I am scared shit of this season – I think 7th-8th is a strong possibility – fuck me! How did we get here?
In Arsene we trust
So come the week-end, I am forced to be a Spurs and Man U supporter….FFS
All thanks to that cunt Wenger and those idiot AKB zombies who support him.
At least we are only 3 points short of the once-magic 40-point survival mark. Looks like we’ll win that survival trophy!
The GS report….
“Before anyone criticises Arsene Wenger let me remind you that taking a point off Bolton was a very good result. So much so, that it is one more point than we got last season.
Arsene Wenger has been very unlucky this season with injuries, especially the long term injury of JW. When we have so many key players missing it is not surprsing that we’ll hit a bad patch. Which other team could lose their 3 best players to injury and still perform?”
Another Arsene joke….
After our League cup win over Bolton…
Afterwards, the manager spoke in glowing terms about Park’s performance:
“He had a very, very good game. His movement was exceptional and his finishing is absolutely fantastic.
He is ready to play in league games.”
It’s indicative of the trust you English gooner chaps place in Wenger that there’s been not ONE post mentioning our newest recruit, that young 19-year-old Dortmund boy.
Chaps, let’s once again applaud Wenger for the audacity and business acumen to poach a 0.5 million 19 year old attacking midfielder, instead of paying 35m for a 19 year old attacking midfielder. If you consider Eisfeld would have to be 70 times worse that Gotze to be a bad buy, financially speaking, it really shows how what a genius Wenger is in the market!
C’mon Wenger!
Let’s have a storming finish to the season!
More total lies from Arsene Wenger…..
On the official website (which is Wengers mouthpiece) he states that JW is not ruled out for the season – what a total fucking liar. I can guarantee you, there is no way JW will play a game this season.
WTF is wrong with this guy? He just can’t help himself. Makes me sick!
Wenger in last night’s post match interview :
“WHEN YOU DON’T LOSE THE FOURTH GAME, IT IS ALREADY NOT TOO BAD”
MORON.
Wanadoo, I think we’re due another blog telling us to adjust our sights.
GS wrote a blog early in to the season telling fans to adjust their sights from title contenders to finishing 4th. This was obviously aimed at the AKB dimwits who thought this shower could compete for the title.
What we now need is a rousing blog for fans to lower their expectations once again, to say finishing top 6. It could be bigged up that a 6th place finish should be enough to get us in to the Europa League and thus 15 consecutive years in European football, and Wenger continues to perform miracles.
If we keep lowering our expectations in line with the deterioration witnessed on the pitch, we can join the merry band of AKB’s on here, and class each miserable season as a success. After all, we are always reminded that we’ve been punching above our weight for many years now. How they work this out I don’t know. Has finishing 4th above Spurs and Newcastle been punching above our weight? Is 6th or 7th our equilibrium. Or are we still punching above our weight as we leave Stoke City in our wake?
Either way, let’s rejoice at our first point of the year. We shouldn’t be too negative as this hard fought point has stopped the slide and could kickstart our season.
Same old Arsene. wAke up everybody to this cunt
So the Henry induced euphoria used by wenger to smoke screen himself through yet another transfer window is now being used to get away with taking off the ox. Where wd as be without th
Hey GS if you are waiting for things to improve before launching another apology I suggest you shut it down till 2014, or Sonja gets pregnant.
Where are all the:“I’m crying at Henry being back” brigade – such a bunch of losers.
Like I said, Wenger PR at its best – with absolutely no substance. Just like the man himself.
Did you know that Henry has the worst pass completion rate of any Arsenal player – 64%. Chamakh has 70% and Arshavin 74%.
Anyone still think it was a good move?
Like I said he’s a league 1 player (third division) – so you should expect league 1 results.
And to top it all off, as predicted – has anyone noticed how RVP’s form has dropped off since his arrival?
Wenger you piece of shit – FUCK OFF
How does Henry’s arrival affect RVP? I didn’t really understand the explanation u gave earlier.
I’ll explain….
Before Henry’s arrival; RVP was scoring goals for fun, he had marvellous form and confidence. He probably felt (and rightly so) that he was King of the Hill. All the focus of the fans and players were on him as were all the plaudits. Then along comes Mr Wenger and brings back an old legend. Suddenly RVP is no longer the high talking point or King anymore as everyone is talking about the return of TH like he’s the new messiah. RVP naturally feels second best, he’s been undermined and certainly not as important as he was a few weeks earlier. The glory that was on him has shifted elsewhere…namely TH.
His confidence starts to wilt and this is exponential every time a half chance is missed – whereas before it would have been water off a ducks back.
To put things into perspective; imagine you’re a top salesperson within a company for 12 months running. When you hit a big sale all the employees love you because they all get a cut of commission. And all the shareholders love you too. Your boss then decides to bring back an ageing salesman that was top in the 1980′s – he was best salesman for a decade. so much so they even have a proud statue of him outside the entrance. Everyone remembers those times with fond memories and can’t wait to see him in action. All the focus is taken away from your last 12 months of success for this nonsense…..how do you feel?
Now whatever your answer, the status quo has been irreversibly changed.
I hope I’ve explained it well. The whole thing is one big joke and unfortunately most fans have been hoodwinked by AW
Sounds too far-fetched to be honest
Even GS has had enough of reporting on this pile of shit.
I agree with you on almost all your arguments. We are shit and we know it;) But what is your motive to be on this blog? Is to tell everyone else they are stupid etc? Or are you on this blog to influence other fans that Arsenal are going downhill? If it is, maybe you should think more about how you come across people in general. I think maybe you are one of the few reasons why some fans still wants AW around, you are just to extreme. And you hate this blog, so you should check out this blog http://www.arsenalinsider.com/4169/2012-could-be-different/ ,you probably know it already, but it is pretty good on the topic we are on these days;)
The reason why I am on this blog is to try & improve my team.
The method I suggest… stop buying tickets.
If noone turns up at a game & we make it public knowledge that the reason why we arent buying tickets anymore is because the club are keeping our money for their own profit.
We should be demanding that the club buys the correct level of player that we need to progress.
We have one striker that is very injury prone, after him we have Chamack!!!!
None of our midfielders are world class.
Our defense is a joke, a complete fucking joke & it has been for years now. Why not spend £20m on 3 defenders?? We could have got Alex, Cahill & Samba for that price.
If u add them 3, I think everyone would agree that our defense would be much stronger.
Buy Hazard before Man City do & get Podolski.
Then I think we have a squad that may have a decent chance of getting into the top 4!!
My motive?
Is like anyone else…..to air their opinions and hopefully influence a few people on the way using rational argument.
If fans remain loyal to AW purely because of my posts – then they are beyond stupid. But I think you know that people will not remain loyal to AW because of what I do or don’t write.
I never said I hate this blog. Please don’t put words in my mouth. I think GS has lost his way. But I’m hoping that once the Wenger Zombie trance has worn off we might get back to some sensible writings.
Besides, I think the layout and functionality of the blog is first class.
Arsene Wenger wants his Arsenal squad to ignore any off-field distractions and focus their attention on reigniting their top-four challenge.
Protests are planned at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, with disgruntled Gunners supporters set to air their displeasure at recent performances and a perceived lack of ambition during the winter transfer window.
Fans are set to place black bin liners over empty seats during Arsenal’s home date with Blackburn, highlighting the fact that poor showings are forcing many to stay away.
Wenger can also expect to come in for criticism, with a dip in form seeing the Gunners slip five points adrift of the UEFA Champions League places.
The Frenchman is refusing to get dragged into an internal conflict, though, and has called on his players to try and block out the events which are expected to unfold around them this weekend.
Wish
When asked for his reaction to the latest planned protests, Wenger said: “I would not like to make any comment on that, I feel we have to be above that and show our quality on the football pitch and not respond to every individual provocation.”
He continued: “I believe we played 15 years on the trot in the Champions League and we play in 10 days in the last 16 of the Champions League.
“We want to come back in the Champions League position in the league, we want to prepare properly for the next round of the FA Cup and I wish that in the next 16 years it will be exactly the same for the club and that the fans will be happy.
“After that, what can I say?
“Ideally I want everybody to be completely happy and over the moon, but we live in a world where you have to accept that not everybody reacts the same.
I wish the reporters would just ask him directly, ‘why dont u buy good players?’
And then when he responds in his usual manner of talking complete & utter rubbish about something irrelevant, they just stop him half way through & say ‘that doesnt answer the question.’
Forget the black bin bags over the empty seats, just dont show up at all. Let the team play in front of an empty stadium.
That action would speak volumes to the board, the manger, the team & the press would then be all over that story…
It would provoke a reaction, Arsenal would have to buy players then.
If they dont buy world class players in the summer, RVP WILL leave. RVP has, to date, had the most productive season, in terms off minutes played & amount of goals scored.
Without RVP this year, we would have about 10 points less. That would leave us about 10th or 11th in the league.
What ever happened to AW’s 5 year plan??!!!
It failed. It doesnt work.
So now we most buy players.
MUST.
Any ‘fan’ that says we dont, is an enemy of the club.
Totally agree. Save the tuppence on the bin bag, stay at home and leave the seat vacated. The stewards and AKB’s will only remove them anyway.
An empty stadium for this overpaid excuse of a football team to perform in might just hit home with Stan, whereas discontented fans that keep coming back won’t register.
Then we can leave the AKB’s who repeatedly criticise the fans for the soulless atmosphere, to sing out Wenger’s name until their hearts are content. An half empty stadium with the occasional muffled rendition of ‘One Arsene Wenger’ would be as pitiful as it could get.
Are you actually replying your own post? That is great stuff;) That said, I do agree with you.
I can`t help to wonder though, is it Arsene beiing cheap, is it the board beiing cheap or is it both. And even worse is it arsenal doing a Leeds utd after the stadium bulding and we are just plain bankrupt. I don`t think so, but who knows.
I belive a protest is good, but I hope we aim it more towards the board and AW than towards Arsene alone.
Sorry about that post your own post remark! I didn`t see your idea about the post until I read it properly;)
GS?
Are you dead?
Yeah…. like he’s gonna answer you if he’s dead….
I know it’s all gloom and doom but for me it is the truth at the moment. Arsene has raised us to a great place from when he took over, but has ALSO overseen a program in rapid decline for more than 6 years. the team is getting worse and his excuses are stale. I think we MUST get a new manager.
For those who say loyal fans don’t question, don’t boo, don’t protest, and don’t put bags on empty seats, I disagree. Arsenal FC tickets are, I believe, THE MOST EXPENSIVE in world football so the product for the fans should also be world class. But to fall from one of the top 5 teams in Europe to now about the 8th best team in England, that may not even make it to the Europa league if they collapse late season like they always do, this is all unacceptable for a board and manager to be multi-millionaring off the situation. This is a sport and a business, cause and effect. If I lived in England, I would stop going to games to voice my “vote” on the current state of affairs.
Wenger always says we don’t need to buy but he knows he is wrong. We don’t need to spend 600 million euros like Man Chitty, but bringing in 2-3 difference makers for a few seasons running and ditching the dead wood would really help this program on the field.
This sums up Arsene for me: Almunia making 60,000 pounds a week to be the 3rd or 4th string keeper here, Walcott an unquestioned starter, and horrid footballers Djourou and Squilacci being depended upon to get us to 4th place or the FA final.
Arsechums,
Yesterday I watched the 4-4 against Liverpool from a couple of years ago. It was funny how good Arshavin was in that game, and it was great to see how excited he was to get them 4 goals in a game. I loved the incisive, purposeful finishing and those boggle eyes that grew wider and wider as the game progressed.
I wonder what happened to that mischievous imp who ran rings around the Liverpool defence and who had a nickname like The Owl. He was a certainty to become The Next Greatest Player In The World. And then he didn’t. He was shunted on the right and became a lazy wide-forward.
Let’s support the Owl in the next match! He’s still a quality player, and sometimes it takes 4-5 years in between quality matches!
I blame AW for ruining Arshavin.
Arshavin is a player that likes to dribble & shoot from distance.
AW doesnt like that.
He wants constant passing & only shooting when 2 yards from the goal line.
AW’s moto is that if we are passing the ball over & back, without penetration, the other time dont have the ball & therefore cant score!
Arsenal need to win at least 3-0 tomorrow.
that’s something else that amazes me. a lot of games arsenal have 60-70% of posession, the little time the other team does have to score, they always do. yet we have it all game along against these shite teams and we are lucky to score more than one goal in a game this season.
It’s because of tactics. The other team has them, and we don’t.
by the way, i think i understand what an AKB is by what i have inferred from reading this blog, but the term predates my arrival here. what does akb literally stand for? is that a term exclusive to this blog? thanks.
CB,AKB=Arsene Knows Best;it is a commonly uesd prefix in goonerdom so feel free to use it anywhere!!BTW if u go on LeGrove,they have excellent AKB guide;they have just changed the site but i think there is a link on the first page that comes up,check it out!!!
Isn’t it ‘Arsene Knows BRIGADE’ as I was told earlier in this website?
An AKB is one who rails against the dying of the light, who supports Arsene Wenger despite everything that’s gone badly, and who is heroically turgid at the sight, sound, and yes, smell, of the Emirates Stadium even when we lose 1-2 from a penalty conceded in the 90th minute.
An AKB can be measured by underpants size, because the bigger you are, the more perspective you have on Arsenal’s problems!
oh boy the akb’s will be out in droves now. bollocks. it was a great win. but how many games a season does arsenal play like that? once.
You see,I told you we had tea spiwit
Hi everyone, its been a while but ill be back soon. By the way Ive finally woken up ,and realised that Arsene is destroying our club and that hes a cunt. Catch you guys shortly
Arsenal didnt play that well.
Beating a 10 man team that is bottom of the league isnt a great win.
Also RVP scored 3 & set up 2.
So WHEN he leaves, were fucked.
At least played better than before…. against Wolves back in Dec who were 10 men we couldnt grab a win…. drew 1-1
But now… 7!!!
You earlier said that
“Arsenal need to win at least 3-0″
Arsenal won 7-1…. you aren’t happy???
Man you really are unique… they should pick u up and put you in a museum….
Wow gs is back
???
Hi guys, Im preparing a piece to hammer that cunt Wenger. Hopefully we can get some of our old posters back. They may be fucking twats but at least “Top Prat and “Respects the phsycho no life Highbury” were entertaining. Also where did that nerdy bastard “Welling” go.
Don’t forget cunt eyes SB. He singlehandedly sleighed a hundred akbs with one sentence…. Or So the legend goes
Anyone realize OX is a much better finisher than gervinho? Already score 3 goals in as many starts.
Man that fact is but obvious… but Ox should replace Theo… Gervinho & Ox together will work well as wingers…
A new LB and ST is mandatory…. for striker a one with arial ability… for LB someone like Baines… not scared to shoot…
DEPTH, Arsene Wenger, depth.
I wonder what’s happened to GS? I hope he’s OK…
Arsene Papercrack applauded his teams great work but confessed that he is very eager for the return of his French Afro players so he can resume his resting of the oxe. There is insufficient room in le limelight for both of us Mr Papercrack said off camera.
The good old days of the gun rack. Nin, Musky JP and co. A lot of akb’s got slaughtered HALAL style!
Good old days?
Yeah, live sheep exports were booming as their wooly hides were fed to gluttonous Arabs
RIP GS….
“Walcott went to the World Cup without having played in the Premier League at all, so it was a bit early because he was 17 years old. For a while I felt that the pressure on Walcott was after that because nobody had seen him.
“He didn’t play at the World Cup and when he came back people said: ‘OK, he has been at the World Cup, now he has to deliver something special’. But you’ve seen now that Theo is developing very well.
“I don’t want to compare [the two players]. The only thing I would say is that Chamberlain already had a complete season in League One and he survived quite well. He was a few times injured on his ankle. He’s 18 years old, Theo came here at 16 and a half or 17, so he is a bit older as well.”
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It was AW that told Sven to take him to the WC!!!!
And what is he saying?? Can Ox play games, or not?!!
The guy is just waffling!
GS February 4, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Hi guys, Im preparing a piece to hammer that cunt Wenger. Hopefully we can get some of our old posters back. They may be fucking twats but at least “Top Prat and “Respects the phsycho no life Highbury” were entertaining. Also where did that nerdy bastard “Welling” go.
I’m still here you cunt, but can’t be arsed to post with all the new AKB’s on here now. Prick!
Hooray for Welling!!!! Welcome back
Lol! How’s it going MM? Keeping well I trust?
You know what?? I’m seriously concerned about GS. It’s more than weird for him to not post for about 2 weeks…..
Hope he’s OK…. wanna see him (or her) and this blog in action…
G4L, GS has been active on his twitter account. It’s just us that he’s avoiding.
GILBERTOSILVER, WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
DON’T ABANDON US!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for letting us know Mr Big. I too was getting a bit worried about him.
Mr Big – I like that, Wanadoo. Thank you!
Oh. Thanks.
Start praising papa Wenger again and he will be back. Right now he is avoiding reading this shit because he knows deep inside that it’s all true but prefers to live undisturbed in his rosy little reality as long as he can.
Does anyone wonder if this blogger is ok? Haven’t heard from him in a while
Yes, apparently he’s having a minor surgery procedure……(being removed from Mr Wenger’s butt cheeks)
Following the procedure he commented:
“It’s nice to be free of Mr Wenger. You wouldn’t believe what I saw down there; There were AKB’s wandering around aimlessly, like they were caught up in a trance or something – I too, found myself heavily being drawn in……It was close there for a while, but thankfully I’ve been set free.”
He went on….
“Please spare a thought for those souls that are forever lost…..RIP AKB’s”
As he wiped away a tear, I shook his hand and moved along.
This has been another great news story from Gunnerblog’s new columnist; Mr Wanadoo
Ok! Do you still belive in your own RVP and TH theory that you talked about before the weekend? Or do you see that you were far of the mark on that? If not you are even more super human than I thought possible. Not only are you the worlds greatest hindsight football know how, you are also the shrink, that is one hell of a CV.
You see Wannado, that is the reason why I question your views at times. Often, too often you are correct in what you say, but you just don`t know when to stop.
You should remove yourself from Harrys ass as you seem to love that to much;)
Because RVP scored a few goals against the mighty 10 man Blackburn – you think my foresight is incorrect? – well let’s see come May, shall we?
Bear in mind, I said his form would drop, not stop scoring altogether. Come May you will see that Jan-May were not the same as the previous few months. If I’m wrong, I’ll be here and admit it.
As for Harry, who gives a fuck about him – I’ve hardly ever mentioned him. Certainly not to the extent where someone could suggest I was up his arse. I think I’ve mentioned him once, in my last 50 posts!
So what your saying is that if RVPs form drops at any ponit between January and may, than that is because of TH and AW. Mate that is just plain stupid and you know it.
And you always refers to the mighty teams we beat, you must be happy since you always seem to feel we beat a mighty team every time we play.
And by the way, you sound like AW now, “judge me in may”, wake up kid. You said his form will drop, it hasn`t and it was far fetched crazy talk and you know it.
blah blah blah
and the beat goes on
the fans have no voice
we are just nobodies that pay for tickets, seat at the stadium for a day out, get a bit bored & cold, shout when something happens, try to follow the crowd, sometimes shout ‘Arsenal’ to prove we are die hard fans
then make our way home after the match, back to the sofa, watch tv, then tell people that we went to the match & are therefore are die hard fans that deserve the right to vent our frustrations, which are in fact based on a reflection of the emptiness of our own life
jolly good
carry on
Arsechums,
Wenger said that it is imperative that the club earns £15-£20m a year, or words to that effect. What are you thoughts on my big penis?
I think you better start putting your penis to work so that you can afford the new increase next season.
I notice not too many tears are being shed by England fans with the departure of Capello.
Funny how England fans measure Capello’s success by achievements on the pitch, with no mention of the profits the FA have made or self sustaining hogwash.
I don’t hear too many fans rattling on about how well Capello has done for successfully qualifying for two tournaments in succession (with no chance of winning), and the revenue that this generates for the FA to invest in future stars.
No spin about how Capello has the highest win rate ever as an England manager.
No bollocks about how we could return to the dark days of appointing someone like Steve McCLaren.
And no dickheads shouting what right do England have to win trophies. Expectations are rightly high in this country, and it’s amazing how someone on less money than Wenger, had more pressure to deliver, and with limited resources of nationality restricting him.
I can only dream that the Arsenal board will ever haul Wenger in. He should be brought to task on his latest comments of ‘mental strength’ and forced to stop uttering this stupid phrase. Question his decision to give shit like Djourou a contract extension. Be told that dross like Rosicky will never captain the team again!
I can only dream that Wenger will fuck off!
i think AW would make an ideal national coach
cause then he cant buy new players
1 Capello wasn`t sacked because of poor results, but because the FA undermined his authority, since they wanted Terry removed as captain even though he is not convicted on any charges yet.
2 And to why england should have high expectations is strange since England have won fuck all for nearly 50 years. England can hardly put one player in the spanish starting eleven as far as I can see, maybe Rooney, but he is hardly a match for D Villa even with a broken foot. Still I agree that Capello is far to good a manger for england since his standards are way higher than the english players.
3 And you talk about Capellos record, and who has he played in a match that matters and won? And more important when has he lost? But when england lose it is hardly because of the manager, it is the players and development that needs to improve in general.
4 I don`t see what Capello has to do with Arsenal anyway;)
5 In your argument, correct me if I`m wrong, you say”No bollocks about how we could return to the dark days of appointing someone like Steve McCLaren”, but that is you, you are the one who wants AW out and replace him with GG or some other british retard. You are the one who wants back to the dark days.
By the way you should read this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2097581/Arsene-Wenger-I-want-Eden-Hazard-need-raise-funds-buy-him.html
And the fact that the commercial incom at arsenal in 20 mill pounds less than f.eks Liverpool, can explain some of arsenal`s problems.
You sound very much like another tit that comes on here called Bona, who just wants to argue the toss for arguments sake.
As for your points:
1 I never said Capello was sacked because of results. I merely made an observation that England fans are hardly bothered too much about the loss of Capello, as in 4 years the team hasn’t won anything and is unlikely to. In contrast to AKB’s who have gone 7 years with nothing, and a club that is alarmingly going backwards, who still think Wenger is the way forward. In real money, Capello has only had one crack at a trophy, unlike the dozens of trophies that Wenger has spunked over the last 7 years.
2 England fans have high expectations? It’s called a winning mentality, unlike losers like you that will put up with any shit, and accept any excuse or lie thrown back at you.
3 I can’t decipher this riddle? Talk in English please.
4 What has Capello got to do with Arsenal? Nothing. Yet you brought up Redknapp in your post yesterday. What’s he got to do with Arsenal?
5 If we continue at this steady rate of decline under Wenger, we are fast approaching the ‘dark days’ that the AKB’s keep bringing up. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we actually won trophies in these ‘dark days’ you go on about.
And as for that Mail post, when are you going to wake up. Season ticket renewals on their way, so you won’t mind another 6% hike so we can buy Hazard? You really are deluded. How many times are you going to fall for this self-sustaining smokescreen to justify running this squad in to the ground.
I don`t belive in the self-sustained model. And I don`t belive AW in 2006 decided to ruin this club. I do belive that the board is keen on making money though. And the competition with chelsea and city came at bad time for us. I belive AW would buy if he could and had money, but we don`t and we can`t compete, and that is a problem indeed.
And would you expect AW to come out and say that all our players are shit, even if some of them are? It is like you, even though you are stupid, we don`t expect you to say so;)
As for english winning mentality for the national team, well that is one hell of a joke. I would say england these days are the opposite of winners and not only in football terms. And why is that? ………
Wegin van Wegsie you really need to acquire some brains
I would love to see you manage Arsenal
You would be a complete fucking failure
A fucking failure from day one! You wouldn’t know where to start
Stick to being a keyboard warrior – no accountability and no responsibility
I think Zak has a man-crush on me…. or on my penis.
I’m not a piece of meat, Zak! I’m a human being with real feelings and a really, really large penis!
Wegin van Wegsie dosen`t have to be the arsenal manager to be a complete fucking failure………….. He already is with a small penis to go with that.
Wow, now there’s a man who knows the pain of a small penis. Merson, I sympathise with your plight, and I’m sorry if it seems like my large penis is taunting you over the inadequacies of your own member… but fight through the anguish, Merson! Having a small penis isn’t the end of the world! Not that I’d know!
Gelbs is also a tool
A ranting maniac
Anyone can shoot their mouth off. You are an expert at it
Wanadoo however is the worst
Moron of the highest order
Do all the cunty fans appear on this blog by design?
The amount of crap on here is amazing
You should see some idiot named Stringer or sumthng…. doesnt come now…. came last season to fuck our brains..
Zak, you have no brains and no substance; in other words you are a waste of space. No go and chant Wenger’s name in a darkened room.
Pathetic AKB of the highest order.
WEG… keep doing what your doing fella … enjoy yourself its later than you think,, which is quite literally truse as its 11 oclock at night!
any good bands breaking down there fella?
weiling you old rascal..
who do you fancy for the 2000 guineas… i’ve ante on power.. was 14′s now 12′s…
hows your luck been?
lets have an old school day …friday 24th feb.. all the old pposters come beack for a moan and groan , hey sling in a few gags…
nioni ? where for art thou nin? tc, stringer.. missed your points.. you were the nostradamus old boy!
dont believe the hype boys may is aproaching and they want you to dig deep like comic relief…
but afc have there own comic relief… wenger…
we will be linked with all the great players untill june 1st cut off day! then he will unearth soome two bobn hopeful from some far off land, set the lad and his family up for life and he will be rubbish , but tied on a 5 year deal!
i wish wenger had become a dentist or something!
who has the biggest weg or wenger??? answers on a post card!
Answer on THREE postcards, more like it.
The trend for Wenger seems to be been buying BIG things lately:
1. Mertesacker’s a BIG lad.
2. Gervinho’s a BIG forehead.
3. Oxo’s a BIG talent.
Expect another BIG player next summer!
new blog…
only jesting…..
“Just letting you all know – I’m not dead. Blog will be back in force next week. Got to finish something first.”
This is what GS said on his twitter account 19 hrs ago…!!!
Finally…!!
What a genuin cunt TH is, comming in to ruin this once great club. Also fucking up RVP. It`s obviouse for all to see, what an utter cunt TH14 is. Respect to Wanadoo!!
Wake up, you are total mother fucker with a cabbage for a brain. Big fucking deal, he scored a goal in the last minute. Our results have been so fantastic lately haven’t they, since TH has been here:
Last 6 prem games:
2 wins
1 draw
3 losses
But of course, being a fickle cunt – you just see the last minute goal….What a brainless looser you really are.
And what about those subs? AW is clueless and a cunt. Three subs Ramsey, TH and Arshavin. Two goals and one assist. Fucking cunt AW is. Respect to Wanadoo and Stevio!!!
What’s your point? When have I ever criticised any of these 3 players?
I’m accustomed to you talking bollocks, but at least try picking me up on the points that I actually make. I know in your little mind Wenger is a master tactician. But don’t let your imagination run away too much and start putting words in my mouth. By all means, take me to task on my opinions of Chamack, Park, Squillaci, Rosicky, Fabianski, Bendtner etc if you want to. Tell me I’m wrong about the company policy to sell our best players every summer if you want. Tell me I’m Spurs fan for expecting the 5th highest earning football club in the world to aim higher than 4th place.
But don’t pick an argument with me about Henry scoring? I’ve never slagged Henry off. And if you think Wenger bringing Henry back was a tactical stroke, you are missing the bigger picture. Henry’s goals have just proved what an incompetent Wenger is. We went a season without replacing Ade waiting to pick Chamack up on a free. Then we suffered a full season with Chamack. Then this season we went for Park and still have Chamack. Three years spent pissing in the wind. Watching Henry play for us again just brings home the fact that Wenger has been negligent to cover this position.
As for Arshavin, I admit I won’t be sad to see him go. He’s been awful this season. Can you really deny that? I don’t think he should be anywhere near the first team. But if one decent cross in a dire season justifies his selection, then by your admission this makes Wenger a tactical genius for playing him.
By the way. In your last 2 posts you’ve mentioned 4 players in testament to how great Wenger is. RVP, AA, Henry and Ramsey. How many of them will be here next season? Just Ramsey I believe.
Not to worry though, because Bendtner, Vela and Denilson will be back next year. Then when Bendtner knocks in a Denilson cross against Norwich, you’ll be back praising Wenger for his foresight.
“What’s your point? When have I ever criticised any of these 3 players?”
Oh PLEASE…. you were the focal point of criticizing Arshavin, and you also used to say (or agree) that Henry was a cover-up to Wenger’s stability in his job.
Chamack, Park, Squillaci, Rosicky, Fabianski, Bendtner, as you have mentioned… are way below Arsenal quality. Chamakh, YES…. Park, I dunno coz I haven’t seen much of him to judge him… but I feel that he should be sold if he isn’t used in the team…. anyway I think he will remain at Arsenal for the remainder of his football career which is only abt 2 years or sumthng…. coz he has some compulsory Korean military training thing.
Squillaci should be sold, no argument. However, seen that Rosicky is returning back to form, is a veteran of our club and also brings experience in our team, I would reconsider selling him.
I was all for selling Fabianski at the beginning of last season… but frankly his contributions were impressive at that time. Course, he’s become Flaapyhandski again as seen in the Olympiacos game… but as you said abt Arshavin… I wouldn’t judge him in one game… after the impressive games of him earlier.
Arsene DID try to sell Bendtner (and Denilson) but was unsuccessful (coz nobody wanted him
) but had to settle for a loan deal. Anyway I have removed him from my head as a Gunner.
Even though Wenger will take Arsenal to the drop zone, even though Ivan will croon over our financial policy evn though Arsenal haven’t got quality over the summer…. anything happens…. I don’t care. Even if I don’t like Wenger (and trust me I have serious doubts on him), even if I hate the Board, Kreonke, WHOEVER…. I will keep supporting them no matter what.
Because it’s my duty to support the Club and like it or not, THEY are the people who more or less form the Club.
There seems to be an outbreak of dyslexia on here? I know you AKB’s wear rose tinted glasses when you watch Arsenal, but please take them off when you’re reading.
I find the decline of Arshavin a tragedy. This was the last signing Wenger made that I was excited about playing for us. And he was a great player for us in his first year. But his attitude this year has been a disgrace. Some blame Wenger for this, for playing him out of position. Or when he realised his agent had messed his pay up with the British tax, did he go in to a sulk? I don’t blame Wenger, as Arshavin is handsomely paid to at least put a shift in when on the pitch.
However, I have never held him in the same regard as the shit like Chamack, Vela and Park, that have done fuck all for us in their time here. At least I can see why we signed Arshavin. I can’t for the life of me see the point behind Chamack and Park?
Ramsey is another one coming under fire lately. Not from me. I give him some leeway with his leg break, and he was coming on up to this point. Wenger’s insistence on playing kids ahead of proven experience is where I would lay the blame.
And what is this point you keep on making with Henry. I tell you, if we had a half decent striker coming back from the ACN, I would say that what Wenger did was an impressive stunt. But we have Chamack coming back. So Wenger provides RVP with an able deputy for only 6 weeks of the season. I don’t find that praiseworthy? You obviously do.
You say you support the club. Then you also say you don’t care if we fall to the drop zone and Kroenke shafts us over. You are the perfect fan for the club. While fans like you are not bothered for this decline to continue, and are still happy to pay top dollar for, then at least you can hold your hands up proudly, and say you played your part in dragging the club down.
Stevio, two excellent posts….succinctly put.
Wake up, you need to WAKE UP, we have won 2 of our last six games….what a blind prick you are.
#Wengersbumboy
Aaron Ramsey scores, and now Whitney Houston is dead. What a goddamn curse !!!