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Zim is an armchair fan. And there's nothing wrong with that, I'm one of those now.
But he is only interested in trophies - the whole nonsense about the "thoroughly enjoyable" 92/93 season shows that. I had a season ticket that year and it was mostly miserable, yes the end was good but a season lasts a long time and most of it was abject.
On the 7th November 1992 we beat Coventry, the end of a good run. We didn't win a league game again until 16th January (P8 W0 D3 L5).
For the rest of the league season, 27 games, we won just 6, drew 9 and lost 12.
Let me just repeat that. We won 6 out of 27 league games. Six! Can you imagine this place if we had that kind of season now?!
It was pathetic, frankly, this was only 2 seasons after we'd been champions, losing only one game. Even the season before we'd finished 4th.
And yet Zim thorougly enjoyed it
Why? Because he didn't have to sit through most of it and we got a couple of trophies at the end of it, somehow.

Now he's so bitter about Wenger though he actually hopes we don't win anything although it's a strange logic because we'll almost certainly finish top 4 anyway, he'll have met the board's target so he'll stay on anyway - why not win the league if we can? Which we can't, obviously.

As for the assertion that I think we're progressing. No, we've stagnated. Many have said Wenger has us in decline. He doesn't. We have neither progressed not declined in the last 10 years, there have been some promising signs but ultimately this season shows that there's been no real progress. I'll admit that the last couple of years I have seen some signs for hope. I've been over those endlessly. This season we needed to push on and win the title - or at least challenge strongly - and we haven't.
You really have a selective memory, in the season we won those two cups we rested players to prioritise the cups in quite a few games so it's not a surprise we lost or failed to win quite a number, the league wasn't the priority as we we'ren't in the running, but in those days the cups were important and winning both had never been done.

Yes I enjoyed the drama of the cups, the last minute goals the comebacks, the build up to doing the double, it was great, far better than the nonsense we see with 4th place with Wenger which IMO is absolutely worthless other than financially.

I don't expect us to win all the time, what I expect is a team capable of upsetting the odds from time to time, organisation, solid performances and some proper runs of form where we play great football and look the part and to see some progress. 10 years of Wengers nonsense is enough, the guy and everything he does is a bore and most importantly nothing ever changes with him, if anything we're going backwards.

Do I want Wenger out, yes for all the reason we know and the fact the guy is soooo arrogant he comes out and criticises anyone who dare question his job or anything he does, he's an awful representative for the club with his embarrassing comments and childish strops.

Don't expect you to understand because it's clear what you think of Wenger and you never really see the bad, yes there's a few empty words you mutter, but in reality you always find a way to defend the guy.