The thing is, if we could possibly - POSSIBLY - eek out 7 wins from our last 9

[Monty91]

I think we'd go close to winning it.

It would require two teams with absolutely no track record of challenging - let alone winning - the title to stumble. Not collapse, merely stumble. That's hardly inconceivable. If anything, it's probable.

It's not on for us, but it still could be.

[redgunamo]

Footballistically, I mean, of course.

[Monty91]

I don't really see the big hoohah. If we'd beaten Watford, we'd be on decent little run and potentially going into the Everton game in a relatively upbeat mood :shrug:

Why didn't we beat Watford? I think when you lose combinations of players it can really f**k you up. Losing Ramsay and the Ox at the same time is a killer for a home game where you need penetration against a defensive side.

I don't only blame injuries of course. I think there is a lack of leadership (yes, really) and a lack of winners (yes, really). I also think we have too many players who are preoccupied by their own ambitions and aren't able to focus solely on winning stuff with Arsenal. Hector is making his name, Ox is desperately trying to break through, Theo is desperately trying to prove he's good enough to play for England, Wellbeck is just happy to be a medium sized fish in a big pond instead of a small fish in a big pond, Olly is ok, Sanchez is ok, Ozil is sort of, Nacho is ok, Coq is sort of ok, Ramsey is sort of ok but still trying to become the kind of midfielder people will be talking about in 30 years.

Another thing....Did you hear Kosceilny recently? He said he was very happy with the way his career has gone, playing for a big club that is the in the CL every season. Now, Kos is a fantastic player, but happy? With no big trophies? Can you imagine Rio or Vincent Company saying that?

[redgunamo]

As for Rio and Vince, they'd say exactly the same as Kos, had they not won any major trophies. All three will understand that they've been very fortunate.

What you have described there is the constitutive emptiness at the heart of anything you do when you detach the consequences of doing it from it.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

The way we have been playing 7 points from the last 9 games looks a bit of a struggle

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

For not being a good enough football manager?

So, would he be good enough for Newcastle? Or Leicester? Would that be more his level?

Do you see how easy it is expose the absurdity of blaming Wenger for anything?

[Monty91]

any leaders or winners. And I still get accused of
blowing smoke up Wenger's arse?

[redgunamo]

The correct word or phrase escaped me for a moment. "Hold responsible for"?

As to the other point, would even Guard be good enough for us, in your opinion? He's never managed anyone for twenty years and has no intention of ever doing so, as I understand it.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

prissy old dames with purple hair that thinks her cats can talk.

You, and all the other Hampstead bellends that support the club just don't want to lose him because he's got a degree in economics and speaks with an Inspector Clueso accent.

[ghostlygunner]

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

In other words, the justification is predicated on a lie.

So remind me why I should listen to these lying c**ts?

[redgunamo]

or issues, and not His. You know, the chap responsible for collecting them all together in His squad in the first place.

[ghostlygunner]

but he hasnt sadly which is a great shame and will reflect upon the way he will be remembered, as a good manager now rather than a great one

plenty who have wanted him out actually like the man but i dont think theyve changed their opinion beacuse of the fa cuo successes :shrug:

[Monty91]

And whether they are or not is a question that bores me, because it never leads to anythjng interesting being said. Just the usual half-baked assumptions about Wenger's brain-workings.

[redgunamo]

The discussion has long centred on how one or two decent players more would see us right, title-wise. Since 2013, we've added at least three such characters, yet the feeling is that the previous failings, such as you've attempted to list fully below, still remain.

Anyway, there's no justification outside the nature and traditional behaviour of football itself.

[Monty91]

Put it this way, I'd sure as f**k prefer Sagna at right back than the hugely impressive but 21 year old bellerin. You get me?

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

And if we know it, surely He does too. What with being an absolute genius and our greatest ever manager and everything.

[Monty91]

We might still win the f**king league

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

In the natural scheme of things, He would've been gone by now. The heightened nervousness stems from the simple fact that we all know, some day soon, He actually *will* be gone.

[redgunamo]

we are not.

[Pokster]

10 points from 8 games... :nurse: