But that's really not the point though, mate. He got lots of the ball. Look at footage of Arshavin on the wing (and even sometimes when he was in his "favoured" position too). He was lazy, hardly ever tracked back, often just passed the ball away and then refused to get forward into a decent position to offer the option to receive the ball back.markyp wrote:i think Wenger is largely to bame for Arshavins demise,ok he could have tried a little harder but being played out of position especailly on the wing isnt fair.anybody who has ever played as a winger at any level will tell you that sometimes games simply pass you by as you find everything going on through the middle or you find that everytime you get the ball people exspect miracles,i know cos i played their as a kid and at youth level,you can be a hero or a villian,but largely pretty insignificant for most of the game,playing as a winger sometimes makes it almost impossible to get invloved.to be a world class winger takes a very special sort of player,do you think that bergkamp would have flourished out on the wing??
If the game passes a player by it passes him by, fair enough not his fault, it happens - but even when AA23 got a good chunk of posession he was poor and lazy, trying stupid back heels to impress instead of keeping it simple and effective, or often just not bothering to develop the play. Wenger is culpable for not using him to his best, absolutely, but ultimately only Arshavings is to blame for his stinker of an attitude and crass laziness and I think more than any other factor that was why he failed with us.
had him on the bench 
