I don't really take much into what Wenger says post-match. To be honest, I haven't done for a while. The last time I waited for his statement was after we lost at Old Trafford after we'd lost our 49-game unbeaten run there.

Since then, it's all been pretty generic stuff. And let's be fair, who can blame him? If you're a manager, in any walk of life, whatever you say, you're gonna be held accountable for it. Yes, even Wenger, even with the supreme level of comfort he has. If he says his players were shit, the board will ask him why he said that. If he complains that he doesn't have the resources to sign the players, again he'll be called up for it. It's all a smokescreen. And he deflects attention well. Where English managers will fall into journalist traps, this wily old fox, with English not even being his first language, won't.

The one aspect I don't like is his patronising demeanour towards fans. I began losing love for him when he couldn't answer a simple question about adebayor not being able to mark at the far post leading to Man united's goal in the CL a few years back. He got annoyed. That's where the "us and them" attitude began. Today, he acknowledged that the fans will play a part in dictating whether he stays or goes. A sad moment, but I don't think he's paying lip service to what the Wenger Out fans want, either