Might I make so bold as to clarify something?
The 'fourth place trophy' idea with which so many like to bash our greatest ever manager stems from a perfectly reasonable comment. He said that fourth place was 'like a trophy', which, indeed, it is, since every club achieving CL qualification celebrates it as a success.
'Like a trophy'. Not, 'is a trophy'. 'Like a trophy.'
It takes either an incredibly lazy, or incredibly vindictive mindset to continually beat Arsene around the head by warping a perfectly reasonable comment.
Carry on.
"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."
Certainly you can clarify it, and you have every right to hold that view, of course.
And others have every right to disagree. And those who disagree would argue that it is nothing like a trophy at all and shouldn't in any way be celebrated as such. I would be one of those people and my view has nothing to do with my attitude towards Wenger, it has everything to do with much of what I consider to be wrong about modern day football.
Avoiding relegation is celebrated as a success as well. Is that like a trophy? I think not.
*******s. No top club or manager with ambition celebrates fourth place like a trophy. They may even miss out on it once in a blue moon (Chelsea last year) but if they limp in fourth they never celebrate "like a trophy".
It says everything about the standards Wenger is allowed to get away with and his lack of ambition for our club.
Last edited by Yesterday Once More; 05-16-2017 at 03:47 PM.