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Fulham 2-1 Arsenal: Rock Bottom?

263 comments November 30th, 2006

I have to say, I’m hoping that last night’s performance was the very bottom and now the only way is up:
I don’t think I could take anything worse than this. I’ve seen bingo games with steadier balls than this crew was peddling. Defensively, it was one of the worst Arsenal performances I’ve ever seen.. Fulham could, and perhaps should, have scored five.

I’m not going to start criticising individuals. The whole thing was shambolic, and the selection insulting. It is not a criticism of the likes of Hoyte and Song to say they should never have been starting, it is a criticism of a bizarre decision by Arsene.

This morning there have been many angry fans saying it’s the end of the Wenger era, which strikes me as very hasty. We’ve been through bad patches before and we will come out the other side, in time. We know that Arsene won’t publicly criticise his team, but that doesn’t mean to say he doesn’t lay into them behind closed doors.

I’m finding writing this particularly painful, so I’m not going to take too long over it. What I will say is that the problem with out team is simple: we are push-overs. All of our domestic success under Arsene came with players who were technically excellent, lightning fast, but above all hard as nails. I mean the likes of Keown, Lauren, Parlour, Vieira, Petit, Bergkamp. Where are these personalities in our squad? Who are the men who have not just the guts but the phsyique to intimidate teams?

Wenger has until January to find them, or he’ll have to go shopping.

ps. We’ll still come 3rd.


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