Farce Reaction - Liverpool 4-0 Arsenal

[selassie]

This manager has a magic cloak that makes him impervious. Right now, the pundits are blaming Ozil for this performance. John Barnes has come up with the craziest shit so far. Try and stick with me on this one. Mesut Ozil is to blame for Arsenal's problems because when he plays badly the fans don't criticise him, instead they criticise Wenger. So Ozil gets a free ride, poor old Wenger gets all the flak. Wenger is the victim. The insanity of this is hard to grasp. Ozil has been persecuted by the media since he arrived, and half the fanbase has jumped on the bandwagon. So how, exactly, has he had a free ride while Wenger has got the blame. Barnes is literally blaming Ozil and absolving Wenger because, in his confused mind, Ozil never gets blamed and Wenger takes all the heat.

Andy Gray thinks the main problem stems from the fact Wenger never subs Ozil. Gray is normally more level headed, but he's hitched his wagon up to the crackpot caravan on this occasion. Is he seriously telling me that if Ozil had been subbed today it would have made a blind bit of fucking difference? Apart from Cech, who kept the score embarrassing rather than mortifying, everyone was shite. Including the subs. And they were all shite because the fucking lunatic running the place has absolutely no idea how to build a team and send it out to compete. None at all.

How is he getting away with this? It's staggering. This isn't the first, second or even fifth season this shit has been going on. It has been over a decade FFS. At what point do some of these lunatics say, well hold on, perhaps Wenger might have something to do with this?

I can't remember the name of the bloke on the American post game show, but he's the only one that seems to grasp the obvious. His take? This all comes down to one man and one man alone. Arsene Wenger. Because when you get to write your own contract and you have no pressure then this is what you get. Or words to that effect. One person. All the rest of them are fishing around for any excuse to absolve Wenger and some won't even mention his name.

Supporting Arsenal is like being in the Village in that TV series The Prisoner. Surely everyone can see what a fucked up place it is, but no, you show them and they all ask, what, what, what? In the end you wonder whether it's you that's insane.

I do agree with your sentiment NQ, but this is now about Wenger v world, he is wrong but will continue to dig his heels in until he is fired. The Arsenal job will be a tough one once Wenger is gone, he has gone past that stage of wanting what's best for Arsenal and it's now all about him.

[Letters]

It's just bizarre how literally nothing changes. This club is proof of how overrated stability is.

I don't think it shows that stability is a bad thing but it is a bad thing if you're in endless Groundhog Day because it just means that Day goes on for longer. Maybe one day Andie Macdowell will fall in love with Arsene Wenger and this will all be over.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

I follow Arsenal twitter a lot and even most of the usual Arsene apologists have turned on Wenger now want him gone - even Arseblog who's usually quite restrained. This result may finally be the straw that broke the camel's back though obviously it's going to have zero impact on anything.

Though if the unthinkable were to happen and he either resign or be forced out then Tuchel is still available and could do the job for at least a season. Heck i'd take the fat Spanish waiter at this point.

It's a huge mess that won't simply go away if fans stop turning up. We have loads of tourists waiting in the wings and would happily fill up the stadium and take selfies! Wenger is a cancer at Arsenal and getting rid of him is going to be nearly impossible.

Kroenke is the cancer and Wenger continuing to linger around instead of being quietly pushed aside is the symptom of it. A caring owner would have done something about ages ago.

I do agree with your sentiment NQ, but this is now about Wenger v world, he is wrong but will continue to dig his heels in until he is fired. The Arsenal job will be a tough one once Wenger is gone, he has gone past that stage of wanting what's best for Arsenal and it's now all about him.

Whilst I've wanted Wenger to go for a long time now I've always been mindful of being respectful and not being as venomous and downright nasty in abusing him as opposed to others online (and sometimes in the stadium) like NQ who'll call him every name under the sun mainly because of his history and service to the club ......... but honestly fuck him, the geriatric old fraud.

He had two chances to go out on a high winning the FA Cup but his oversized ego, pettiness to be proven ultimately right at whatever detriment to the club he professes to care and his own personal inability to see himself outside football has caused him to stick around.

[Ralpheroo72]

Problem is, the Grove will still be full every home game, and so the money will keep rolling in. I have switched off, I don't watch anymore because I know what is coming. He brings in 2 signings, and rests them both, he is on cloud cuckoo land. I cant see anything at that club that makes it attractive anymore, its a lifeless soulless place.

[Keith]

Although I'm an armchair fan, I can't take any more of this.

My 4 year old has even decided he's a West Ham fan so I'm going to start taking him to the lower leagues rather than watching our games, we've got Luton & MK Dons () nearby but surely their teams have some passion and desire to win for their fans?

The team is a mess, the management is a mess. We've had the best squad in years for 3 years and Wenger has managed to ruin it.

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't think it shows that stability is a bad thing but it is a bad thing if you're in endless Groundhog Day because it just means that Day goes on for longer. Maybe one day Andie Macdowell will fall in love with Arsene Wenger and this will all be over.

Wenger would get her to go dutch on dinner then he'd refuse to fuck her after a prolonged bout of foreplay. She'd get the message and leave, like everyone else is doing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Whilst I've wanted Wenger to go for a long time now I've always been mindful of being respectful and not being as venomous and downright nasty in abusing him as opposed to others online (and sometimes in the stadium) like NQ who'll call him every name under the sun mainly because of his history and service to the club ......... but honestly fuck him, the geriatric old fraud.

Gloves came off and knuckleduster went on the second the selfish bastard signed that contract. I'd have given him his dues if he'd have ducked out at that point, despite the decade of torment. But when he decided he was bigger then this club all that history was washed away. If a saint saves you and then turns into a demon and kills you, you deal with the here and now. That old Wenger is long gone and now there's this thing in his place. If the long gone, old Wenger ever rematerialised I'd say thanks, for sure. As for this cunt that's taken his place, fuck him.

[Niall_Quinn]

The whole media, Internet, everything is talking about how shit Arsenal Football Club is. And yet, nobody is talking about how shit Wenger is, except the fans. All that remains is for Wenger and the media to come out and blame us for the mess. You know, like they did last season.

[Niall_Quinn]

Did anyone see the sycophant Keown on Match of the Day? Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwww!

[Niall_Quinn]

The Americans and Canadians have far, far, far more grasp on football reality than we see here.