Quote Originally Posted by 7sisters View Post
Ironic really, Vieira has been quite outspoken about black managers recently. It can’t also have gone un noticed that he appeared to be making a bit of a statement of his own throughout the season, often choosing to field an 11 entirely made up of black players.
Intentional or otherwise, only he knows.
The only positive from our side is that with 48 hours to go, it’s probably too late for any new manager bounce, although the players may up their game in response to his sacking.
He’ll always remain a true legend at our place, Wenger’s first talisman who inspired an era of unprecedented success.
Remember the grief AW got when he fielded 11 foreigners in his starting XI?

Also remember a game when all ten outfield players were black. Think it might have been Kolo's first season where he played every position bar CH. I remember thinking at the start of the 03-04 season that we only had Sol and an ageing Keown as CHs so we could well be in trouble, unaware of AW's masterplan of moving this Ivorian utility player to CH.

{I also think that if we have a two but predominately left-footed no.8 in da yoof team, we should be getting him to play LB as future cover for Zinny. I thought the Pole we signed in Jan was gonna play that role, but it seems that after one game MA's written him off, like AW did with Perez.}