Are the doubters wrong about Wenger?

[Özim]

Anyway, someone posts the post-match interview with Wenger in which he was asked about the supposed foul by Arteta. He gave a completely reasonable response about how he didn't think it was a foul (which the MoTD pundits concurred with) and said it was 70 yards from goal anyway. Zimm's response:



What's that? Wenger is biased towards his own team? OUTRAGEOUS! (There is a school of thought which says that people who call themselves Arsenal fans should be that way...) And note how Zim completely ignores the part where Wenger said he didn't think it was a foul anyway.

Zim never misses an opportunity to have a dig at Wenger. And if there isn't a real opportunity he makes one up. It goes way beyond pessimism, it's real bitter hatred. It's completely bizarre.

Yes I made that point for a good reason, as you well pointed out he is very biased and thus this gives his opinion little weight at all if he's unable to look at a situation impartially when asked about it, the point wasn't whether it was a foul or not but how objective he can be about situations (and that goes for his opinion on his team as well).

For me the point is Wenger irritates me with comments like this and if I'm honest his complete BS when we've collapsed rubs me up the wrong way, if we were losing and he was honest about it I'd have much more respect, but his patronising comments grate me and have for a long time.

So yes I'm sick of the tales, the empty promises and blind faith.

This lack of objectivity is actually a big problem for us, because he refuses to recognise the limitations of his team, the bad defeats are just unlucky and whatever happens he goes off praising his team, I don't want to hear the team praised when it collapses faster than a deck of cards on in a hurricane, I want honest views and comments about how we're not good enough.

It wasn't a dig at him so much as criticism of something he does which impacts our chances of progress.