The Arsenal Society VIII

When I speak about Wenger's frailties and how we are not going to win anything substantial under him again, I am called a sad, pathetic Spud loser. I am a Gooner in every sense and I cannot abide gloating at Arsenal. However, the manager's shortcomings are there for all to see; his stubbornness in the transfer market; his rigidity with formations; his lack of tactical nous; his constant complaining, etc.

Referees give poor decisions all the time, and it happens to clubs throughout the world. It's part and parcel of the game. Constantly crying about it on the forum boards isn't going to change that. Wenger does not learn from his mistakes.

I am not bothered by the name-calling I get from the AKBs. What really bothers me is why those who chant Arsene Knows and In Arsene We Trust accept second and third best.

Arsene should write a best-seller called the Greatest Salesman. He sells us his version of the future and too many buy into it. What is the point of getting us into Europe if through sheer arrogance we cannot win our group after getting nine points on the trot against some of the easiest opponents, and falling at the first major hurdle after leading 2-1 by playing negatively? And the irony is that Wenger declares that football should be played in the proper spirit.? Getting us into Europe is merely for profits.

Seems like Wenger already knew his own and our team's mental frailties when he declared that he hadn't thought about the Barcelona match because the league was so important. The man's delusional!

The AKBs will spin the following bull: It's fine that we are no longer in the European Champs because we can now concentrate on the FA Cup and the League. And when the FA Cup hopes disappear, we can then focus on the League; and when League aspirations disappear, we must wait for the January window. So what's the point of playing in Europe if we are just going to make up numbers?

As much as I can't abide some of Mourinho's comments and style, let's admit that he gets certain things right, and one of that is that our Manager is under no pressure to deliver because he has no one to answer to. His is just an experiment to massage his own ego.

That is why he backed out of the question and answer session this season, leaving it to Gazidis. That for me was a telling indictment on his character.

He simply, like our team, hides and shirks his duty when they are called to be accountable and when the pressure is on. If the Manager can't handle the heat from the shareholders, what do you think is the natural outcome of the team made in his image?

I do not hate Wenger. He started off well, but his limitations have caught up with him, and other managers know how to play our team because we are so one dimensional. I pray that we can do something in the FA Cup or the league, not for Wenger's or the team's sake, but for the sake of our long-suffering fans who have to abide by Wenger's delusions of grandeur. But my prayers are in vain- been praying for six years now -even God has quit listening.

Can't even begin to tell you how I will feel if the Spuds go through against Milan and progress even further as first timers. For once, the joke is going to be on us. And well we deserve it. There are too many who keep crowing that we are one of the top teams in Europe.
Now show me a Champions League Trophy. And when did we last win one?