I am indifferent to finishing above Spurs because it is not a real achievement of any sort, but i also agree that finishing below them won't make any difference to the pressure Wenger is under....he is under none now and he will be under none if we finish below them.
You know that keeping on saying something which isn't true doesn't make it true, right?
Originally Posted by Letters
You know that keeping on saying something which isn't true doesn't make it true, right?
The difference is, the things I'm saying are right
Of course he's under pressure, even if not the kind of pressure the fans want him to be under.
To say he's under "none" is balls, no matter how many times you say it
So you are choosing to be a pedant by pointing out that he's under pressure to finish in the top four.
And I am not even convinced that he's under that much pressure to even achieve that, the board have said we could survive outside of the champions league for at least a season.
There is pressure in the sense that i am under pressure to turn up for work every day in order to justify my company paying me, and there is tangible pressure.
Im also under constant pressure that in an oxygen rich atmosphere that if i don't inhale and exhale i will die from asphyxia and it will be uncomfortable because of the retention of carbon dioxide.....
Gazidis already covered that one off, didn't he? Plenty of cash apparently, even if we lose our grip on that coveted trophy. These guys, manager included, have turned the club into a laughing stock from a sporting point of view and a highly coveted stock from a financial point of view. That's the bottom line. They say they give a shit and want to win things. Yeah right. I could sit in my Suzuki Swift really, really, really wanting to win a drag race against a Porsche. Deep down though I know I should have arrived in a Ferrari, but hell, think of all the money I saved and the fuel economy I'm getting. There's no pressure when everything is humming along precisely according to plan and with barely a flicker of variation. I'm surprised any of them turn up as this thing runs on rails.
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It's a bit like having shares in a Michelin star Restaurant, you are not turning up to keep an eye on the books...it's just no one makes Moules Mariniere the way this particular chef does.
You said he's under no pressure. It's not pedantic to say that's balls. It's obviously balls. He's meeting his employer's targets and is under pressure to deliver them.
And even if the targets aren't what the fans would like, keeping us in the top 4 year after year, if that it is his target, doesn't give him loads of room for error.
If he was under pressure to simply keep us in the PL then I'd agree that's as good as no pressure for a club like Arsenal, but we certainly have no divine right to stay in the top 4 and as Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea are finding, staying there even with huge resources isn't that simple.
Like I said......I am under pressure to turn up for work every day.....that's not pressure that's just a basic obligation.
So if you want to be completely literal than what i said is incorrect, but in any tangible meaning of the word pressure no he's under no pressure, and unless you have undiagnosed aspergers you are in fact being a pedant.
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