What were we like to watch under Billy Wright, la?Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
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
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.
Bit like now then? Wenger out!
Not his fault - Baker's done nothing for years. Not even breathed since 2003
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."
Thank God we sacked him then. Wenger in!
Like Newcastle under Keegan
Goalllls !
10 characters? Pile of cund.
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