Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
I can think of 2 fans who have confidence him. One's a lunatic called Ty and the other a bookie who bets against him, because you have to be a lunatic or have an agenda to claim confidence in a guy who fails to maximise his resources so consistently and predictably. However, most fans still have respect for him and what he did in the past and that's what keeps his arse in that chair. If that respect was lost then he'd be out in a flash but I doubt that will happen at Arsenal and I'm not sure it should either. I like a moan about Wenger but if I'd have been up at that game where the arseholes waited and shouted into his face I'd have stabbed them. This gives the fans who want him out a difficult task. Even raising a very respectful and moderate banner gets you roundly condemned - not the Arsenal Way, etc, etc. Seems to me the Arsenal way is to spread 'em and try not to squeal.
Another problem - as football sinks ever deeper into the deepest of sewers with criminals owning clubs and human rights abusers and child abusers and fraudsters at FIFA and pampered prick players who can't play for toffee or refuse to play at all, and the shitty pundits who make fake news on CNN look trustworthy and informative, and the grubby agents and the doping and the cheating refs and the whole damn English con game called the PL - in the face of all that, Wenger's a bloody saint. He's respected right across the game because he behaves in a manner the rest can't afford to behave in, and he's done it since day one. Can an owner turn around and say, you know that guy who makes us all the money and never brings a moment of trouble to this club? We need to sack him and bring Harry Redknapp in, you know the crooked little wheeler, dealer who will do what it takes to win and damn the consequences? They will never, ever do it.
So all that's left is terrible frustration. If Wenger could just take a few risks, not the grubby types of risk that characterise the modern "greats", like teaching your players how to dive and call it professionalism (yes Pep), but risks well within the remit of what we have seen from him before like the purposeful counterattacking football that made us the second favourite team for every non-Utd fan out there, if he could just bend a little. But he won't.
It's like being managed by Jesus. God sent him to save football from its sins but we're getting crucified in the process.
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