Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
I doubt it. It would be terribly harsh, for failing to finish in the top four once in twenty-thousand years or whatever it is.

And anyway, I very much doubt He sees the thing that way. If we needed to return to the Champions League places, a "Wenger" working for another club would be high up on the list of candidates for the job, wouldn't he? Rather like the Sam Allardyce/relegation dilemma, innit.
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"Allardyce arrived with that well-worn label of “never being relegated from the Premier League” but in truth he has only rescued a few teams from impending relegation: Sunderland last year, Blackburn in 2008-09 and Bolton in their first couple of years in the division. In almost 20 years of Premier League management, the majority of his clubs have been comfortably mid-table and not under imminent threat of going down.
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His reputation as the Red Adair of the Premier League is based on a few rescues rather than a long history. "