Quote Originally Posted by latewinner View Post
But the perception is it was too good for Arsenal so 7..8..9 seasons of no trophies and the same mistakes still can't allow us to question him and not be criticised for it. His success was exceptional because of the football we played and watching players like Henry, Bergkamp, Pires....
Ferguson's success is exceptional but even he is more accountable than Wenger and his fans aren't in debt to him as much as people think we are to Wenger.

So yeh his success was outstanding but impossible for a club of our stature, don't agree, even when English football was highly competitive pre 92 we won trophies, reached fa cup finals, had potential which Wenger realised, but we can go higher,
Anyway I'm going to stop talking about it because he's not going

I wouldn't say it was 'too good' but it was exceptional for even a club with as rich a history as ours. I grew up in an era where you couldn't say "Arsenal" without the words "Boring, Boring" preceeding it, in an era when the Double was spoken about in hushed voices as something which a club could only dream of acheiving. To have such a successful period and watching a team playing with such style. It's not something I ever thought I'd see.
Of course Wenger can't live off that forever. No-one is saying he shouldn't be questioned and we shouldn't expect a club at our level to be winning trophies - although it must be acknowledged that it was Wenger who raised our level and the expectations which go with it.

You're right, he's almost certainly not going because he is delivering what the board expect. I'm not sure if Wenger can take us forward but I have seen some signs of hope recently which have made me reconsider my opinion from a couple of months back when I couldn't see we had much to lose by sacking him. Now I'm not so sure. We've had false dawns before and this might well be another one, I guess we'll see in the remaining 10 games.