But Wenger has said some things that won't go down well.
I trust the board to do the right thing here but I have a feeling it's going to be a massive cock up in recent Arsenal style.
But Wenger has said some things that won't go down well.
I trust the board to do the right thing here but I have a feeling it's going to be a massive cock up in recent Arsenal style.
I don't see any reason why Wenger shouldn't make clear his feelings about the way large numbers of supporters have behaved. :shrug:
If these pricks don't like having a mirror held up to their behaviour, maybe they should try not being spoilt, entitled little cvnts in the first place?
Can you imagine how this lot would have reacted to the appointment of someone like Wenger in the first place?
They'd have been baying for blood that this speccy French nobody who'd just come from the Japanese league had been appointed. They'd have been calling for his head before he'd even arrived.
Whoever comes in has to make sure that things look different on the pitch.
If they shore up the defence and we actually have a decent tilt at winning the league title.
That is all that matters to most fans.
If the only thing that the new manager does is drop Iwobi, that'll be fine by me. Christ, he was shít again yesterday.
first things first.
Get Arsenal to take legal action for 'Arsenal Fan TV using the name arsenal'
There is a line to be drawn here, of course. Events that affect change invariably involve a period of unpleasantness. On the one side, bellowing abuse is unacceptable but, a half empty stadium will surely have an impact on sponsors and ultimately, the board.
Wenger's moans of disunity I find, spoilt and a bit odd. A consistent poor run of form, which has further accelerated this year, is hardly a template for togetherness and well being.
I think all of that has been hugely overplayed. I am not expert on european football but I kinds who Arsene Wenger was and I knew he wasnt 'some bloke from Japan'.
He was mentioned in the papers fairly regularly,having a quite high profile job with Monaco and his name tended to leap off the page as it was similar to Arsenal.
These people were agitating against him when we were qualifying for the CL and winning FA Cups. I think when it comes to accusations of being 'spoilt', people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Wenger has a perfect right to point out how poisonous they've made the last few years.
The rank hypocrisy here is all too typical of these people. They spend years calling Wenger every foul name under the sun, abusing him while he's trying to do his work, describing him as 'senile', 'incompetent' or organising marches against him or banners behind aeroplanes on high-profile occasions that do nothing but damage the reputation of the club and make us a laughing stock and cannot but undermine the performance of the team and think that's fine.
But Wenger points out in the mildest terms the negative impact such behaviour has had and these people are clutching their pearls and accusing him of behaving badly. Scum.
The mood seems to have been about right, imo. More or less as expected. After all, many are disappointed that Wenger is leaving after all, many again will be feeling equally let down that they failed to hound Him out.
The club can be satisfied we've managed the transition pretty well. So far. The tricky bit is done and there only remains the far less taxing question of who to choose as His replacement.
Well done, Wenger, and well done everyone else.
I found the joy felt by Claude at the news of Wenger stepping down particularly uncomfortable
I am no expert on european football (I have made that clear over the years) but I had heard of him. How can. You miss a story with a word in it that starts Arsene.....
Either way, he wasnt a 'bloke from Japan'.....he had a very successful career at Monaco.
The issue was a big club appointing a foreign manager. And it turned out it was rather a good idea ifyou get the right one....
Sorry, p, but you saying you'd heard of him does not alter the fact that most people hadn't. This is why you had headlines like 'Arsene Who?' and pieces like this spectacularly silly piece by Matthew Norman in which he describes AW as 'a Frenchman from Japan with a funny foreign name'. I'm not saying such ignorance was laudable, but it was very much general and very much real.
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That is modern football AFCE, not just Arsenal Football Club.
We simply could not stand still with our board of Old Etonian bankers. The change at the club began 20 years ago or more with Fizsman and Dein coming on board.
Arsenal Fan TV is nothing to do with values, it is just a footballing manifestation of modern life and social media. Pig thick shít****s are celebrities despite having no talent or appeal.
That pirate **** in the crowd, a decade ago you had that beret **** in the crowd. Now you have a fat **** who stands outside the ground waiting to interview actual retards for no other reason than the fact they are retards. All desperate for their wee moment in the media spotlight.
I am sure I am almost as old as the two of you (I think I am a bit older than Burney).
I grew up with the old Arsenal of Hill-Woods, bank of england club and footballing mediocrity. But then George Graham appeared and I have been hooked on the idea ever since that Arsenal being good is a wonderful thing.
No, we decided money was the way forward, as opposed to old-fashioned "values" or what-ever-have-you, and got AW in precisely because, for one thing, He knew where all the cheap foreigners were hidden. Without Him, we wouldn't have/couldn't have done it; we may have been merely content with our lot and carried on as before, waiting for the Chinese to catch on and pay us billions.
You can't have it both ways by painting Him as a victim of our lost or transformed values; He himself was the key agent of that change. He had met and had become friends with David Dein some years before we made Him manager, don't forget.