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Thread: Has Wenger left it this late before signing a new deal?

  1. #11
    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    A photographer - this might be what you were really thinking about in the shower this morning

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    What were we like to watch under Billy Wright, la?

  2. #12
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    What were we like to watch under Billy Wright, la?
    Entertainingly ****, really - relied heavily on Joe Baker. Nothing like as good as Chapman's team. Wright out

  3. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    What were we like to watch under Billy Wright, la?
    Just checked, we must've been rubbish:

    "Arsenal were unable to improve on their seventh in Wright's first season in charge, and their form gradually declined. Wright won only 38.46% of his matches in charge, the lowest rate for any post-war Arsenal manager (caretaker managers excepted). After a poor 1965–66 season – where Arsenal finished 14th and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Blackburn Rovers (who finished bottom of the First Division) — Wright was dismissed by the Arsenal board in the summer of 1966.

    Football writer Brian Glanville, discussing Billy Wright's time at Arsenal, wrote: "he had neither the guile nor the authority to make things work and he reacted almost childishly to criticism"."
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    The first Arsenal team I watched was under Terry O'Neill and Don Howe. This side played as follows: Jennings rolled the ball out to Rice. He squared it to O'Leary. On it went to Young. He passed sideways to Nelson, who knocked it back to Jennings. After 5 or 6 minutes of this the crowd would become restless, so Jennings hoofed it up to Stapleton. At some point during the 90 minutes Stapleton would get his head on something and we'd score. Then usually win 1-0. It was incredibly dull.
    They would mix it up, tbf.

    Sometimes O'Leary would pass back to Jennings.

  5. #15
    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Entertainingly ****, really - relied heavily on Joe Baker. Nothing like as good as Chapman's team. Wright out
    His grand-daughter was not very entertaining on the Arsenal podcast I heard her on. Dour, negative, somewhat aloof and uninterested. All the same, she didn't deserve the online abuse/bantz that Marve gave her.

  6. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    They would mix it up, tbf.

    Sometimes O'Leary would pass back to Jennings.
    It also struck me what a bunch of double hard bástards they were. I suppose every team was in those days, but a standard challenge from Nelson, Young, Rice or Talbot would be treated as a police matter these days, and Price and Stapleton weren't averse to a knee-high assault if required.

  7. #17
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    Just checked, we must've been rubbish:

    "Arsenal were unable to improve on their seventh in Wright's first season in charge, and their form gradually declined. Wright won only 38.46% of his matches in charge, the lowest rate for any post-war Arsenal manager (caretaker managers excepted). After a poor 1965–66 season – where Arsenal finished 14th and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Blackburn Rovers (who finished bottom of the First Division) — Wright was dismissed by the Arsenal board in the summer of 1966.

    Football writer Brian Glanville, discussing Billy Wright's time at Arsenal, wrote: "he had neither the guile nor the authority to make things work and he reacted almost childishly to criticism"."
    Thank God we sacked him then. Wenger in!

  8. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Entertainingly ****, really - relied heavily on Joe Baker. Nothing like as good as Chapman's team. Wright out
    Bit like now then? Wenger out!

  9. #19
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Announcing another 3 years in the aftermath of a defeat at Stamford Bridge or a European exit to Munchen less easy to sell.
    They'll have to announce something at some stage, won't they, regardless of any results?
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  10. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Indeed, who knows. But therein lies the excitement.

    Change should be embraced. Bring it on.

    In summary, Wenger out.
    Do you have a successor in mind?
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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