Quote Originally Posted by IBK View Post
Yes. He needs to go now. Let's even ignore the fact that Arteta was beaten by the manager sacked for him without even laying a glove on him tactics wise. The fact that the players were so flat for the most important game of the manager's career says it all really. Out of his depth.
Poetic justice at play.....at least for Emery anyway and probably every other serious football nut.

To think we had a considerable amount of people who felt the "great white hope" Arteta should have been picked over Emery in the first instance......I wish someone could dig up the threads lol.

Anyway, like I said earlier, what should bother everyone is that both Emery and Arteta, were the first 2 on the list of a board/owners who had ages to plan for AW's replacement....
at a time when serious coaches like Allegri, Anceloti, Benitez and
Rodgers were all available (at least their quality experience could have been used as some sort of stop gap).

it seems the predictions of the so called doomist fans keep falling in place:

We stop ever being serious contenders for the title in 2007.

We slip out of AW's imaginary top 4 trophy league in 2017.

We slip out of the newly created compensatory top 6 league in 2020.

And now we are not even able to qualify for any form of European football at all!!

In fact when was the last St.Totteringham's day??

And with our demise being as slow and as painful to watch as democracy in a Middle eastern country......our wise "custodians" decide that the only way to stop this slippery slope and secure our heritage is to join a league where we will never have to worry about the dirty word "competition" ever again!!

At this rate, they were probably right on the last bit....