Which game or season or a time of you following Arsenal in the last decade did you give up on Wenger?
To me, it was a game against Stoke away in the 08/09 season (Yes, I have wanted him gone for 8 years now!). This was our line-up from that game:
Almunia, Sagna (Walcott 57), Toure, Silvestre, Clichy, Denilson (Van Persie 65), Fabregas, Song Billong, Diaby, Adebayor (Vela 72), Bendtner.
Subs Not Used: Fabianski, Nasri, Ramsey, Djourou.
We played a 4-4-2 with our midfield 4 being Song, Denilson, Diaby and Cesc. You dont need to be a genius or need billion dollars to look at that and think "Where the fuck am I going to add width or pace to the play from?!"
Mind you, we had Nasri, Ramsey, Vela, Walcott and RVP on the bench. This to me was and is AW in a nutshell since our move to the Emirates.. What man in their right mind would select a team like that?! There is no balance or creativity in that starting XI. Like I said before and what is being currently shown by Leicester and Spurs is that you dont need billions of dollars to have basic common sense and brain cells. You can cry 'billionaire foul' every single time but you cannot defend brain farts like this on a regular basis.
This was just the beginning of the piss take this season. This season was also possibly the worst football I can remember Arsenal playing since probably the PL era. We did not lose in the PL from the end of November till the 2nd week of May in this season but we drew 12 games that season- five of which came in a row:
31 January 200924 Arsenal 0 – 0 West Ham United
8 February 200925 Tottenham Hotspur 0 – 0 Arsenal
21 February 200926 Arsenal 0 – 0 Sunderland
Here is a link to the match report from that game: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...em/7684755.stm
If you scroll down, you will see a comment on 606: "Until we acquire a world-class goalkeeper, two world-class defenders and a world-class midfielder, we're not going anywhere "
What has changed from then? We still need most of those players, but what we need more is a world-class manager, not a clueless old dinosaur.
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