How Long Has Wenger Been Here

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:02 pm

The worst thing is that it allows the media and others to take the piss out of us and call us whingers.

Post by **g88ner** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:17 pm

How Long Has Wenger Been Here?

Erm... too long??

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:08 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:The worst thing is that it allows the media and others to take the piss out of us and call us whingers.

True.

I do wish Wenger would shut up sometimes, save excuses for when it actually matters

LDB · Post by **LDB** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:37 am

I Hate Hleb wrote:The worst thing is that it allows the media and others to take the piss out of us and call us whingers.

It doesn't bother me that people hate us, its in our history

northbankbren · Post by **northbankbren** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:28 am

I really think he must get bored and just make stuff up in his head to say.

I honestly think he has a bet with someone to see how many times he can get in the paper......either that or he's a wind up merchant.

WENGER RETIRES FROM FOOTBALL.....

WENGER TAKES OVER AS HOST OF YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED.

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:01 am

LDB wrote:
I Hate Hleb wrote:The worst thing is that it allows the media and others to take the piss out of us and call us whingers.
It doesn't bother me that people hate us, its in our history

That's true. However, I am bothered when people ridicule my club and that's what's been happening way too often recently because of some of Wenger's comments.

Why does he feel the need to say something about other clubs? By doing so, he falls right into the trap of our wanky media, who exaggerate or take out of context Wenger's words and then go around asking other people to comment on what our manager has just said. Just look at the "we'll just have to compete with Man United over 37 games" quote, which having watched the interview was obviously said in jest, yet reported as though it were a serious allegation of collusion.

This inevitable leads to further headlines, with others having a pop at Arsene and the club in response, and the whole point of what he was trying to put across being lost. It's self -defeating and you would have thought Wenger was intelligent enough to realise that by now.

The media love asking Wenger questions about other - usually controversial - things because they know he will give them a response. They then use that to perpetuate the story, giving it the twist that Wenger's contribution allows them, and keep it running for longer than it might otherwise have done.

At the end of it all, any goodwill and credit we may have acquired because of the style of the side's football is forgotten and Arsene and the club end up coming out of it looking like plums - and whinging ones at that!! I just want Wenger to restrict his comments to Arsenal Football Club and to say 'no comment' once in a while. It's a shit analogy, but if you stop feeding the sharks, eventually they won't come looking to you for their food.

Wenger obviously thinks that because he's more clever than most of the press, he can win the battle of minds against them. However, history has shown that because of their ability to manipulate opinion, the press/media inevitably always win the war.

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:59 pm

As if to emphasis the stupidity of Wenger's comments on Wolves midweek line-up and the supposed fixture congestion, they've just spent 15 minutes on Soccer Saturday taking the piss out of Wenger and by extension us!!

Even Paul Merson was joining in!!

And you know you've made a cock-up when neanderthal and never-do-well managers like McCarthy - along with the likes of Pulis and Brown - can claim the moral (and intellectual?

) high ground and the majority of press and public support against what you've said.

On this occasion, Wenger missed a great opportunity to just keep quiet.

sycicsid · Post by **sycicsid** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:18 pm

I look at the table and thinkâ€¦

We have

* No Fabregas
* No Van Persie
* No Bendtner
* No Clichey, Gibbs or Traore
* No Rosicky

which is a fairly big injury list. Laughingly Match of the Day changed their tune this week and said that Arsenal had been quietly plodding away and getting there. Last week we had â€œfour defeats in their last seven gamesâ€

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:43 am

2. Invest Â£100m in new players, the youth team not seemingly bringing many first team players through.

Liverpool fans will have reason to hope/fear that El Zhar, Nemeth, Spearing, Kelly and Poncho make a breakthrough next season

Tonton Zola Moukoko · Post by **Tonton Zola Moukoko** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:45 am

[quote="sycicsid"]I look at the table and thinkâ€¦

We have

* No Fabregas
* No Van Persie
* No Bendtner
* No Clichey, Gibbs or Traore
* No Rosicky

which is a fairly big injury list. Laughingly Match of the Day changed their tune this week and said that Arsenal had been quietly plodding away and getting there. Last week we had â€œfour defeats in their last seven gamesâ€

cusamano · Post by **cusamano** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:57 am

We could help them out of their misery:

we give them, letÂ´s just say 15m
they give us F. Torres