Quote Originally Posted by fakeyank View Post
Last decade argument is not simplistic tbh. I hate pulling the 'I played football professionally card' but I'll pull it now... I have played at a semi-professional to a professional level until 25 (when I tore my ACL) and it was clear as daylight to anyone who has played under any sort of sane tactics that Wenger was not the right manager for Arsenal or any top club. He is just not at a top level to make sane decisions and completely lacks the ability to motivate and energize a team.

I posted in another thread about a match where his midfield 4 were Diaby, Fabregas, Denilson and Song. I am sorry but that sort of shit is beyond stupid. And it was not only that game.. we have seen some extremely bizzare and awkward substitutions, tactics and signings game after game, year after year. Kim Kallstrom is one such example, WTF was that about? How about Bendtner playing on the wings or Eduardo playing on the wings? How about being susceptible to set pieces for ages and yet not doing anything to mitigate those risks? None of these have anything to do with money.

Some Arsenal fans who watched the above nonsense plus many others knew that he needs to go long back. There were many who just chose to see his achievements till 2004 and the supposed lack of money as reasons for him not succeeding. To me, it was not about money... Sure, if we had the revenues like we have today, we may have secured 4th easily in seasons we struggled to get 4th or may be secured 3rd easily, but Wenger is so stubborn and deluded that we wouldnt have challenged for the title. You (Letters) and many others are just seeing the light of the day this season because Leicester and Spurs are above us... Some of us saw it ages ago and its possibly because some of us understand the game better OR because we are the progeny of Nostradamus or both.

Your question about vitriol... its because we have been frustrated and given up on Wenger for over 6 years. You, along with many Arsenal fans have only started to realize that Wenger cannot cut it as a top manager this season. You go through 6 years of this and I am sure the vitriol will just flow out from you as well. Hopefully we dont have to endure 6 more years of the dinosaur.. if you end up being like me after 6 years, I dread to think what'll happen to me!!
Really it's down to lack of control of your own emotions. The laziest thing in the world we all do at times is to pin the reason for our ongoing anger onto the cause of it. Sure, we can react to things but when we let it fester, then it it comes down to ourselves to put a lid on it, mostly for the sake of our own sanity. Sitting there getting pissed off, then angry, then mad while sitting, watching and hoping the cause (not the reason, that's a different thing) of your ire tears itself apart says more about you than anything else. Wenger isn't the reason you've been angry for six years, that's because you haven't found a way to manage it. If something is that toxic for you, you get the hell away from it or reassess how you deal with it.