Southampton V Arsenal, Jan 1, KO 1500

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Originally Posted by Alpha

I really like your sarcastic optimism . But you know what , in life , never say never until it is really over . Chelsea a the big favourites in this season but that does not them champions yet . Anyone can come from nowhere and win it like Liverpool almost did it last season when we were favourites .

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Unless something drastic happens at the club (like Wenger leaving immediately), we will not win the PL this season. There is no way this lot will win the big games and no way will the team have the balls to fight for their manager.

As for us being favorites last season... at NO time were we favorites. Everybody who has remotely followed Arsenal over the last decade or so, predicted that we'd fold and die the moment we hit difficult fixtures. Yes, I was cautiously optimistic and hoping that I would be proved wrong but every evidence pointed towards the contrary, and that is exactly how it panned out.

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Originally Posted by Injury Time

Heart says 1-1, head 3-1 the collapse is on

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Collapse from what?!

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

Unless something drastic happens at the club (like Wenger leaving immediately), we will not win the PL this season.

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Course, if he does leave immediately we'll win it at a canter.

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Originally Posted by Letters

Course, if he does leave immediately we'll win it at a canter.

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:lol:

Never mentioned that in the message I posted. We are already 13 points behind Chelsea, so even SAF would have a tough time getting this squad close. But with Wenger in charge, it is impossible (unless you put the Chelsea, City and Utd squads on MH370)

I think with any manager in charge it would be extremely difficult, but I do think we should be a lot closer than we are.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I think with any manager in charge it would be extremely difficult, but I do think we should be a lot closer than we are.

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Other managers would probably reinforce in the obvious areas needed, would use the squad more judiciously and wouldn't make the most bewildering substitutions that anyone could comprehend. I think with another manager we'd be a more than a lot closer, maybe even beat one of our competitors occasionally.

Other managers would just make other mistakes :shrug:

Everyone makes mistakes and learns from them. Even if this other manager makes a mistake, he will learn from it. Wenger on the other hand... :ilt:

Do other managers just keep getting better and better and better then?
I'm not saying there isn't another manager in world football who could do better for us, but an awful lot of managers would do worse.

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Originally Posted by Letters

Do other managers just keep getting better and better and better then?
I'm not saying there isn't another manager in world football who could do better for us, but an awful lot of managers would do worse.

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Absolutely another manager could do worse. Here is what I am sure of though... we are not going to get better with AW.

Another manager may or may not make us better but I am sick and tired of getting the same dish served with a different name. I'd rather we at least tried and failed, rather than not try at all. Our fear of the unknown has meant that we have stuck with an out of touch manager for much longer than we should have.