Arsenal vs Norwich City | Tuesday 24th | Rumbelows Cup

[Özim]

He's a lucky manager no doubt about it, the time the Spurs squad got ill and he nabbed 4th place, the collapses of other teams when they were cruising and he ended up higher than he deserved, the results he scrapes more than not despite average performances because one player pops up with a goal, the fact he gets free reign to do as he pleases with no real implications for failure, being offered a new contract with pay rise despite a car crash season, the fact he gets away with blaming fans with little comeback, stumbling across solutions to problem areas due to injuries with players he would never usually play and the list goes on.

No doubt about it he's the luckiest manager in football, no other manager gets this kind of luck, you might not like to accept it Letters but those are all things that have happened.

As for the middle phase, frankly I was never happy with his performance then either, both in terms of what was happening on the pitch, where he spent our money and his tactics/style of play, for me it was a failure, especially considering he invested so much time and money in the youth policy (he started workng on this 10 years before) and it never delivered anything, as Mourinho once said it would be nice to be able to pay kids and not have to worry about winning anything!

The only successful time was the early years which admittedly were amazing, but it's been downhill from there, boring football, mistake after mistake, poor signings, injuries galore, thrashing after thrashing. Mr Wenger has indeed heralded a new era, an era where getting thrashed regularly is now acceptable and where 6-1 and 10-2 beatings can be swept under the carpet like they never happened. As I said before see how often we got thrashed before he arrived, almost never!

When you consider everything he comes with (not just the football) he is indeed an awful manager, I'd happily erase all of the last 12 years of his reign, I've not enjoyed any of it.