Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
His lack of tactical nous has never been in dispute.

And this is the same 'bumbling idiot' who at this stage last year had us top of the league.

Last year:
P15 W11 D2 L2 F30 A11

This year:
P15 W6 D5 L4 F24 A18

We might not have been playing scintillating football last year but we were getting results. I don't believe anyone saw us being quite this crap this season. What the hell has happened to Ramsey for one thing? It's the level of regression that I don't think people saw coming as much as they're making out.
How does top of the table help when almost everyone predicted that we would fold in March when we had the run of big games?? If you arrange an arm wrestling match between me and a bunch of 3 years olds for the month of December and January, and then against 35 year olds in February, it is obvious that I will come out unscathed against the 3 year olds. My title credentials are against the big boys and I should be measured for my results when they matter.

As for how we have folded this year, I agree that very few would have predicted that. What was predicted was that Wenger's tactical nous will be found out and he will run out of the money excuse soon. To what extent he is being shown up is a pleasant surprise really...