Bob Bayliss wrote:Would it have made a difference had we lost the final? We will never know, but I will continue to believe it might have done. So I am glad I didn't get sucked into the wankfest of celebration over the weekend.
This is reality, the performance on Saturday will soon be a distant memory
To be honest Bob, I share your views, but I don't think losing the Final would have seen the back of him. What I do think is vital (and I'm repeating myself from earlier posts today), is that losing it would have cast an entirely different complexion on the contract renewal. I doubt it would have been cooked up by Wenger and Kroenke alone and I think that the board members that want change (if there are any !!), would have had some serious input.
Had that input been genuine management restructure, then Wenger may have walked (albeit unlikely), but as it is, he's as confident and as arrogant as he's ever been. The old fucker has no shame and his post-match comments, that if the board are in any doubt, they should watch a re-run of the Final, are appalling when set alongside his pre-match comments that the result of one game would not colour any decisions. Still, as usual, the media don't pull him up on his duplicitous bollocks.
In short, a win or loss would not have altered the decision imo, but the immediate future is badly affected, because it will neuter the Wenger Out protests for quite a while and has pushed fans and media alike back on his side. As he's done before, he's bought himself a significant amount of time.
He confounds us again and again and it wasn't just that we won, but it was the nature of the win, a fabulous performance. Where it came from, God knows, because we've seen nothing like it for years (despite the 3-0 scoreline against Chelsea earlier this season, Saturday's performance was on a different level) and I doubt we'll see one again for years. DB10 used to talk about Wenger being here until 2025 and all joking apart, that is very possible !!!
