This twat has become a parody of himself, he really has. There he goes again, defending our pathetic capitulation last season by pointing out we qualified for the Champions League again, and if we do so again it'll be 15-16 years in succession that we've been in the UCL. I'm sorry, but while the fans appreciate this, they also realise that the UCL is one massive cash cow, and while the revenue generated from it matters a lot to the free market fundamentalists in the boardroom and director's box (and to Wenger himself), for the supporters, we've realised that we have no chance of winning or even being competitive in the Champions League, so Wenger trying to claim that finishing in the top 4 should give the fans a lot of satisfaction is bollocks. I understand that winning the UCL is difficult, but it's clear we're never even in the running to win it. But this doesn't matter to the club hierarchy, who care only about profits.Quote:
On the eve of the new campaign, the manager said: "We are in a position where we deserve some credit.
"Liverpool, Tottenham and all these clubs who are out of the top four would like to be in there.
"We have not won a trophy but have been consistently in the top four. Our target is to qualify for the [Group Stage] then we will have been 15 or 16 years on the trot in the Champions League [proper].
"You will see one day that that is not as easy as it looks. It is true that we have not won the title but we are not the only ones.
"We were very close last year. Very, very close. We lacked a little bit of maturity at decisive moments. We played too many games in December and January. That caught up with us in the end.
"We finished the season badly because of psychological circumstances. We lost the Carling Cup in the last minute. We went out to Barcelona under special circumstances. We dropped points to Liverpool in the last minute that were decisive. It was difficult to take for the team.
"It means the media environment with our team is very negative at the moment - if our fans go the way the media want them to go we have no chance.
"What I want is for our fans to appreciate and to support our team."
Then there's an even more pathetic remark. "It is true that we have not won the title but we are not the only ones." Okay, Sunderland didn't win the league, does that mean we shouldn't be worried about the direction the club is taking, and our lack of challenging for silverware over the last 5 years?
"We were very close last year. Very, very close. We lacked a little bit of maturity at decisive moments. We played too many games in December and January. That caught up with us in the end."
No, we were not very very close you dickhead. We collapsed in an entirely predictable manner after the Carling cup defeat in late February, which was the start of our capitulation. Most supporters could see we weren't going to win the league in early/mid March, so you can't say we were close to winning the Premiership.
The infuriating thing is he's still coming up with pathetic excuses for our end-of-season collapse. We played too many games in January and December?????! So did EVERY OTHER FUCKING PREMIERSHIP TEAM, and you don't hear them moaning about it.
He prattles on about a lack of maturity and the psychological impact of losing to Barca in the UCL, the Carling Cup in the last minute to Brum and Liverpool's equaliser in the last minute etc etc, but WENGER SPECIFICALLY SAID that we should judge him at the end of last season, and at the start of 2010/2011 he specifically mentioned that his team were mature enough now to challenge for trophies. The fact that he's defaulted to the pathetic old excuse about inexperience and immaturity shows how much contempt he feels for the fans.
The above article was in Pravda (sorry, I mean arsenal.com) It's something I expect to see on a football forum, as a parody of Wenger's myopia and inability to accept responsibility for anything that goes wrong at the club. He'll never blame himself or the players, but always look to external circumstances. He claims we lost to Barca because of "special circumstances". What special circumstances were those Arsene? The circumstances of our striker being a wanker and getting himself sent off, and the circumstances whereby we failed to muster a shot on target in the entire 90 minutes?
It's hilarious that the official website has published this article, but in a way it's good, because the fans can see again how detached from reality Wenger has become. He's operating in a mirror universe, where left is right and losing is winning.
