xisstential wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:35 pm
Clash wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:14 pm
I was 22 when Wenger became Arsenal manager.
If somehow I had been told then that 22 years later he would still be the manager, I would have assumed it would have meant 22 years of achievements.
Instead it was because Wenger was a freak. An egotistal hypocrite, who manipulated his way to longevity. He was destructive and divisive. Infuriating, dishonest, disingenuous, patronising, ungrateful, deluded and as a football manager/coach ... very very ordinary.
Back when I was 22 I ''knew'' that I would still be going to Highbury when I was an old man ... just like my granddad. In my opinion it is because of Wenger, that this will not happen.
I thank him for nothing! I wish he had never come!
Fuck the memories, they are soured and they came at a price.
Maybe in time I will enjoy the early Wenger years again but at this moment they are suffocated by negative memories of frustration, fans fighting each other, being bored out of my mind watch Arsenal games ... and worst of all actually wanting Arsenal to lose.
Tomorrow will be the last morning we wake up with this fraud in charge. Then he'll be gone. Waking up on a Monday morning will never have felt so good. But what a waste of time the last 12 years at The Emirates have been.
Well said...I feel the same. When I can bear to look at him I see him, the
real him, the man you described in your post. And it's the press, the way they have allowed him to behave, who are the reason the world hasn't seen the man behind the mask. If they had held his feet to the fire on a few occasions that nasty, disdainful, sneering, caricature of a manager would have shown his spiteful face.
I cannot believe that for the past year I have actually wanted us to lose because I wanted him to feel some discomfort, so he could maybe feel a fraction of the hurt he has inflicted on us. That and the fact that I see this Arsenal team as the walking, talking embodiment of their manager.
I too wish he had never come....I hope after tomorrow never to hear or see him again.
Agree 100% with both of you. Even disregarding his incontrovertible failings as a football manager, he is a narcissistic egomaniac, who has spent the last decade on a mission of greedy, self preservation. To do so, he has lied, deceived, spun and deflected.
As existential says, make no mistake about it, on the odd occasion that someone put him on the spot, his faux gentlemanly and professorial mask soon slipped, to reveal a nasty and spiteful character. Cross him (by revealing some home truths) and you were finished. He has all the cowardly attributes of a tin pot dictator. I don't buy the bullshit about his loving The Arsenal, he loves himself, power and wealth.
As Clash says, it's destroying my love for my Club and actually wanting us to lose, just to see him gone, that I can neither forgive or forget. I honestly don't know at this point, whether I'll ever feel that old passion, even once he's history.
For me, the memory of his early years counts for nothing when set beside his tenure since 2006. I've deliberately avoided the love in and the nausea inducing "thanks" of the last couple of weeks. He deserves nothing but a kick up the arse as he walks out the door for the last time.
.,Freddy coming in as U-23s coach.
