Again I think most people wouldnt have cared and it wouldnt have had any kind of significant impact on their view of Wenger
People adored Tony Adams, he was called Mr Arsenal so it would have been uncontroversial. It’s only today that we live in a society of such polarised views that this is considered an issue
I remember the absolute slating Wenger got even at the time for games like the 6-1 defeat to United
Was he called a cunt? Were people calling on him to go? No
But they held him just as responsible as the players
Last edited by HCZ; 07-03-2018 at 12:23 PM.
The point I think NQ is trying to make, is that there are still a number of fans that think Wenger deserves some kind of respect with how he leaves the club, a level of dignity, if you will, afforded to someone who deserves to quietly slip away as a cherished memory.
Maybe 3-4 years ago, Wenger deserved that to some extent, and he would have gotten it from the majority of the fans.
Unfortunately, he has stubbornly refused to go quietly with his dignity intact. He signed a new contract in a blatantly dodgy way, took extra money for doing so whilst maintaining all of his negatives but increasing them and taking us further down the plughole.
After all his other faults he has also attacked the fans and blamed us for poor results which is a no no, end of story.
The truth is, he deserves to be sacked & paraded through the streets naked whilst people throw horseshit at him. He has lost his dignity through his own actions but yet there are still fans that think he deserves to stay until the end of the season which I really cannot get my head around ????
Does he really deserve 9 more games and a last 16 EL competition to ruin us even further? Does he?
The answer is NO
He has lied and stubbornly cheated his way to where he is, and now it is time for it to come to an undignified and abrupt end.
Last edited by KSE Comedy Club; 07-03-2018 at 12:29 PM.
I used the term zero sum yesterday to describe the claim that Dixon made that Bould did work with the defence and that stopped when the media recognised we looked better defensively.
That if you give credit to someone it means taking it away from someone else
My argument is that telling people Adams made Cole the attitude wouldn’t have been that you were impugning Wenger
The attitude would be that Adams was even more of “the boy” than we thought
Adams would be nowhere without Wenger
The only people that would have ever made such a claim are people that were born after Wenger became manager
Adams was a legend, and it was for what he achieved under GG
Adams credited Wenger for extending his career but even in his biography published in the early 2000s said he felt Graham was the better coach. I don’t remember Adams being pilloried for this
I don’t know what Arsenal fans you associated with
The age of social media and polarisation has probably given Wenger this past aura of infallibility in the eyes of people who cry for the moon.
But what I’m saying is that at the time, Wenger was loved, considered the best manager we ever had. But he was not considered infallible
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