I actually believe in the self-sustaining model the club has in place, i just don't like how
a) the wage bill has been so disastrously handled
b) Ivan Gazidis has done sod all to bring us the kind of commercial revenue we need in order to operate this way, and the money the club brings in is all through gate receipts and player sales


But neither of these things is responsible for what happened yesterday, yesterday was caused by a manager whose fault lies in his being too stubborn to learn from his mistakes....why on earth did mertesacker and ramsey play yesterday, why did we hold such a high line, why was cazorla played out of position, why did we take carl jenkinson off, why didn't podolski and rosicky start?. Why are we so slow at making runs into the box when the ball is crossed in low.

I'd hate to imagine what Steve Bould's blood pressure is like at this moment, probably passes out at the end of each match in frustration at his Boss' ineptitude.

I don't enjoy criticising Wenger, and frankly the vitriol aimed at him on this board saddens me, but it's not entirerly undeserved. Personally I think it would take a lot for me to dislike him as a person, and i think listening to him speak is a lot more interesting than hearing the self-regarding tripe that comes out of most managers mouths. I think the media especially treat him with a disgraceful amount of disrespect.
However he is a frustrating individual who is making a rod for his own back but i don't believe for a moment he doesn't care. If he didn't care he would have signed a new contract, and i think he's dreadfully unhappy with not having won anything for so long.
I think he is firmly entrenched in this idea that it's only the financial doping in the other clubs that's responsible for him not winning things, when the truth is we rarely make it above 70 points in a season these days and there is a lack of leadership, ideas and fight in his team.
I'd love nothing more than for him to vindicate himself and throw it back at the people who scream "you don't know what your doing" at him, but in my head i don't see it happening.