THE WENGER THREAD

[highburyJD]

always thought the handshake issue was pure BS,
has it reared its ugly head again this season?

historically its been nonsense
nomark Spuds fools want our manager to touch every one of their diseased staff
and Hughes is a prick - scream abuse for 90 and cry when somebody doesn't blow kisses
prick

[northbank123]

always thought the handshake issue was pure BS,
has it reared its ugly head again this season?

historically its been nonsense
nomark Spuds fools want our manager to touch every one of their diseased staff
and Hughes is a prick - scream abuse for 90 and cry when somebody doesn't blow kisses
prick

I agree some of it is bollocks, was it Clive Allen who called him two-bob for not shaking everybody's hand when most managers only shake their counterpart's? Ridiculous.

But it is genuinely embarrassing sometimes, the Wigan game last year being a prime example. Yeah they wasted time but who wouldn't in their position and I personally have seen teams do far worse. Fact is they pulled off a huge huge result that they frankly deserved by actually coming and playing football (so there were no complaints of negative tactics or anything) and Wenger was too petulant to shake Martinez's hand afterwards.

[highburyJD]

can't remember the exact details on that one, I thought there might have been a handshake in the tunnel or something?
could easily be wrong on that...

as a paying fan timewasting is a massive issue for me, drives me nuts
and people watching on telly are just never going to be equally aware
with editors cutting away to replays and crowd shots

I pay too watch 90 minutes of football - teams refusing to play MUST be penalised
its a consumer issue IMO, give me what I paid for

that said, our recent lack of energy when the ball goes dead (and crap ballboys - look at Barca)
makes it far harder to complain, we play a possession based game
the other team is supposed to work harder than us - dawdling about when we could be taking quick freekicks compromises that
as does Mannone crap lumped upfield distribution

[northbank123]

Possession game doesn't necessarily mean the other team works harder. Barca have ridiculous possession stats but their players invariably cover more ground than the opposition and often it's them that tire in the last 20 minutes or so.

Agree re timewasting, it drives me mental but that game was no worse than any other team who are pulling off a shock at the Emirates, and it's really up to the ref to do something. You wouldn't get a manager telling his keeper to hurry up with it in those circumstances in any level so to not shake your counterpart's hand because of it is pathetic.

[N1Goon]

Nearly every day I come on here hoping for some kind of advancement on the removal of Wenger, to quote another user, "it consumes me".

[Perryashburtongroves]

Nearly every day I come on here hoping for some kind of advancement on the removal of Wenger, to quote another user, "it consumes me".

The day will come. We will have our Islington Spring.

[arseofacrow]

Nearly every day I come on here hoping for some kind of advancement on the removal of Wenger, to quote another user, "it consumes me".

The day will come. We will have our Islington Spring.

Islington Sprig more like

[SteveO 35]

Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger insists side can still win Premier League title despite being held by Fulham

Men in white coats needed urgently!

He says this every season around the same time, then around Christmas he will admit that it will be very difficult, followed by a mid January admission that we are out of the title race, but promising to continue fighting to finish as close as possible.
It's fucking groundhog day season after season, the touchline tantrums, refusing handshakes and the same old excuses, from injuries to bully boy opponents, to referees and downright bad luck. Wenger is a fucking embarrassment to AFC.

You've missed out the transfer window post-mortem on Feb 1 when having been linked with 20 players he declares that none were 'available at the right price' and that thankfully we signed super quality world beaters like Gervinho to save us from "dizzying prices". Then in March when we're out of everything apart from that ever so exciting dash to the line in the Virtual Trophy and he's looking like an even more ashen-faced version of Basil Fawlty, there'll be a queue of apologists saying how he knows what's needed in the Summer and will definitely address our problems this time.

Its so predictable that on the 2013 Arsenal calendar they might as well pre-populate some of the key dates as follows:

31 January - Transfer Window closes (more profit....yippee)
1 Feb - Wenger releases statement about the false economy of football that can not continue forever as we are in a deep recession
2 Feb - Peter Crouch scores header from corner at the Emirates
16 Feb - abject exit from FA Cup 5th round as Fabianski and Djourou see us 0-2 down inside 20 minutes
20 Feb - 4-0 defeat in the Nou Camp with a first shot on target in the 92th minute by Serge Gnabry
24 Feb - "special circumstances" defeat to Middlesbrough in the Capital One Cup Final
30 Mar - beat Reading at home - offical "There's Only One Arsene Wenger day"
30 Apr - Ivan & Arsene promise that we will make additions to the squad in the Summer as ST renewals are chased
19 May - order the paper tissues.....we've won the Virtual Trophy at St James Park on goal difference
1 June - go on holiday
31 August - shit, the season's started (and almost ended in terms of the PL challenge), best rush out and buy lots of Ligue Deux makeweights. Sell Sagna for £5m at 23:59
30 September - its a real wankfest as we beat the 4th seeds 4-1 at the Emirates


Any further suggestions ?

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

Yeah give up Steve

[SteveO 35]

Yeah give up Steve

You could have at least put in the date we sign Zaha ya miserable bugger

[northbank123]

Zaha's being constantly talked up, price is going up every day.

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

Yeah give up Steve

You could have at least put in the date we sign Zaha ya miserable bugger

January 3rd

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

Zaha's being constantly talked up, price is going up every day.

Yeah but he has already agreed to sign for us

[SteveO 35]

Zaha's being constantly talked up, price is going up every day.

Which is why when Man City come in and pay £22m, it'll be Sammy 0 SteveO 2 !

[SammyDroppedHisShorts]

Zaha's being constantly talked up, price is going up every day.

Which is why when Man City come in and pay £22m, it'll be Sammy 0 SteveO 2 !

The deal is done...no amount of money will change this.