Quote Originally Posted by Goonermerree View Post
What worries me most is the payers saying that they were surprised at Preston's commitment. They're not a non-league side, they are professional footballers in the Championship and at home in a cup tie against Premier League opposition, why wouldn't they be committed? We've seen over the last decade or so our team take the opposition for granted and been burned. Treat every game with the same respect and commitment ourselves and we might win more of these matches and more easily.
Doesn't surprise me at all. Wenger's definition of commitment: 1) Squeezing out every last pay day of a contract. 2) What the doctors tell him must happen when they come to visit.

That the players can say this is just another indicator of how out of touch everyone at the club is in terms of doing what it takes to compete at the very top. You could translate this as them wondering why Preston didn't take the game as lightly as we did.