Match Reaction - Arsenal 1-2 Watford - Wenger Out

[Niall_Quinn]

I'm not even angry anymore, it's as much the players fault as it is Wengers....they have this individual team meeting away from the Arsenal management and they still play like muppets.

He's not a cunt, he's just been allowed to go on his own sweet way by the board for too long. I don't believe for a second he doesn't care about winning big trophies, he's too stubborn to accept that he can't do it.

And he can't do it because to be the very best in professional sport you need to take drugsbe 100% focused on winning. He is 50% focused on the team and 50% focused on the money, at best. Probably more like 1% / 99% because everything about this club has been modelled on the finances. They have turned good bookkeeping into a virtue, which is valid for a laundry or a burger stand or a bank, but has no fucking place in football. The definition of sound finances in football is anything goes as long as it doesn't go as far as Leeds or Rangers. Other clubs take risks, we take none. Except in terms of football in which case risks are not just acceptable but desirable. No striker? No problem, get a cheapster in and that covers the rules requirement. Need a midfielder? No worries, that keep-fit bloke can fill in. As soon as this big money project started Wenger was done, all his focus went there and it changed his philosophy and in turn the clubs fortunes (and the club certainly made a fortune).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I don't know why but I have a feeling he could walk. Wishful thinking maybe but what else can you paper over the cracks with? There's fuck all left to draw any hope from.

He's already of the impression that he would have to be God-like to make us happy - it doesn't strike me as someone that is going to walk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...-arsenal-fans/

[Munchies]

[RomfordPele]

I don't even know if we have philosophy. We have a static striker that wants to play the target man and looks to play in others around him by wrestling with defenders and laying off the ball. We have an attacking midfield that won't shoot on goal, make runs into the box and play off the striker. He'd rather play the ball to someone making a run into the box.

It's just not working. Welbeck should have started but saying that, his miss was atrocious. But honestly, we started off bright in the first half but did nothing with it. Next step is to get Giroud out of the squad. He's had enough time now and shouldn't be given any more.

Also, our defence had a shocker. Gabriel was the worse culprit. Merts wasn't good either. Chambers and Gibbs were useless on attack and defence. All over the shop.

Appalling, appalling team selection by Wenger yet again.

We needed a ball carrier in midfield to release Ozil against a team set up to defend ... So he drops iwobi and plays two defensive midfielders.

We needed quality from our full backs to give us width and pace ... So he rests bellerin (for what? Barcelona???) and plays (a frankly abject) chambers. Gibbs on the left was little better. Why no Monreal?

We needed movement up front to test their backline and stretch the play ... So he benches welbeck and plays giroud who just stood like a lamppost all match.

And then, after sitting on his hands for 10 mins until we go 2 down, he brings Theo on and takes Campbell off.

Spineless players don't help, but we lose some games before we even kick off with wenger's madcap tactics.

[Marc Overmars]

He's already of the impression that he would have to be God-like to make us happy - it doesn't strike me as someone that is going to walk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...-arsenal-fans/

Haven't read that. I guess he'll really need to be carted out in a straight jacket after all.

My only hope is the fans continue to do whatever they can to voice their displeasure and make life difficult for him.

[Globalgunner]

Appalling, appalling team selection by Wenger yet again.

We needed a ball carrier in midfield to release Ozil against a team set up to defend ... So he drops iwobi and plays two defensive midfielders.

We needed quality from our full backs to give us width and pace ... So he rests bellerin (for what? Barcelona???) and plays (a frankly abject) chambers. Gibbs on the left was little better. Why no Monreal?

We needed movement up front to test their backline and stretch the play ... So he benches welbeck and plays giroud who just stood like a lamppost all match.

And then, after sitting on his hands for 10 mins until we go 2 down, he brings Theo on and takes Campbell off.

Spineless players don't help, but we lose some games before we even kick off with wenger's madcap tactics.

"Those who the Gods wish to destroy. First they make them mad"
The end is nigh for the charlatan.

[Niall_Quinn]

Article referenced in that video with Moh:
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foot...-a3202046.html

Fuck off Kroenke. Cunt.

[Chippy]

Still St Totteringham's Day. Yes, our move to the Emirates has made us that small, but I'll take it.

Surely he can't fuck up St Totteringham's Day? Not even he would risk that.

Surely.

I hope.

I mean he won't will he?

We have to win that FFS!

Erm, the scum are now six points clear of us! We won't catch them!!

[Munchies]

[Power n Glory]

So we need to change ownership again? Someone else that's even more dodgy and we don't know much about? Stupid!

Kronke hasn't always been the owner and the fact is since he and Gazidis have come along, we've spent more money, revenue has gone up but the results remain the same.