Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
Which demonstrates clearly that Wenger is not pursuing excellence, he's pursuing averageness. Even though we rarely beat our closest rivals we still end up in the top 4. To do this we go out and get enough points against the smaller clubs. To win a title we not only have to beat those smaller clubs, but we have to step up and take points from our rivals on a much more regular basis. But we don't make that step up, the club is more than satisfied with trailing in behind the champions every season. Of course they are or else the manager would have been sacked like at any club with serious title ambitions. Liverpool don't put up with stagnation or failure, the spuds don't put up with it, the mancs, the chavs, the gypos. We laugh at their high managerial turnover but that's the result of those clubs seeking to improve. We, on the other hand, sit here and accept what is for us, given our extensive resources, an average, moderate, par, unremarkable outcome each year. The money rolls in, some of the more idiotic fans sing Wenger's name in the stadium. Pathetic really.
Wasn't it Letters who said earlier that Wenger clearly wants to win and that's not up for debate? It certainly is up for debate. Where's the proof he wants to win? Nowhere. Does doing a little dance and kicking water bottles prove he wants to win? No, it proves he's a sore loser. The word being LOSER. If he wanted to win then he'd play more expansive football, take more risks, buy better players, spend money with ambition. But he doesn't do those things. Instead he cements the averageness of the club. He bakes in that 4th place finish. That's his job and that's the extent of his ambitions because his actions speak far more loudly than any of his repetitive excuses.
And that's what I saw against Swansea, the same thing I have seen over and over again. The same old crappy performance, 3 more points towards that inevitably average total, the top 4 finish back on track, a manager that accepts less, a team that accepts less (and both are inexplicably arrogant with it). Strikers that celebrate last gasp equalisers against teams we have twice the resources of and the bench and criticism for the one player who really seems to give a fuck.
It's a very broken club. Honest fans will look at it and speak honestly. The rest, your Ty and Chris Wenger brigade, will continue deluding themselves and in the bargain give Wenger the support by which he carries on this soul destroying trudge into grey, season after season. For the sake of the club it's a bloody good job they aren't the only sort of fans left because then there would be no hope at all.
There's a video up on AFTV (I think), shows Ty getting an autograph through Wenger's car window. You should see the guy's face as he walks away, it's as if he's just received communion. The guy's mentally ill and so are all his mates that can't see what's under their noses or, worse, don't care provided they have their seat and their authentic merchandise. You really have to wonder, if those guys enjoy it so much why do they continue to turn up? All they are doing is hurting the club they claim to love, hurting it badly.
