I do feel a little sympathy with managers after a loss. The press asks them what went wrong, and anything they answer is perceived as an excuse. His sarcasm against the Dean and Riley comedy duo can't be totally unappreciated by us at Arsenal, and a lot of us have sympathy with the thought that the referees and PL in general like to foster an atmosphere where upsets are possible, as long as it isn't their beloved Manchester United that is. I don't like Mourinho, but in this case he was going for the comedy routine and it wasn't such a terrible effort. As far as I am concerned Riley and Dean deserve any and all mockery sent in their direction.
Only you gooners could have a thread like this... You try to mock maureen and it turns into a bitch fest
Lol so true, theres like no common ground with all Arsenal fans. Just like this thread and just like how 50% want Wenger to stay and others want him to leave. There is no cohesion at all between them!
Meh, been done to death the whole Wenger in Wenger out debate and there's another thread to discuss that.
There's multiple managers who bitch about referees (Wenger included). I think it's silly to attack people for not wanting to join in the "let's attack other people" game and pointing out the hypocrisy of it. When you end up deriding somebody for saying you SHOULDN'T be cultivating hate and attacks towards an individual, then you have to consider what you're doing.
Not really, had he said "we had 30 shots and scored only one goal, were unlucky with the penalty decision but we also got lucky with Ramirez not getting red and a 3 game ban" that would have been fair enough. Some of the bile that came out of him last year at Real. Never mind his choice snippets this season.
This is ridiculously partisan though, just like most of the press. We saw a worse elbow than the Ramirez one against Arsenal from Wigan and it was dismissed out of hand by everyone. We also saw two penalties turned down for far more contact in the same game, but no one is saying that the referee was wrong not to give them. We at Arsenal have been bleating on about how referees can, fully within the scope of their authority, influence a game dramatically, but Wenger and our fans are often accused of whining about decisions after a game. I don't think referees call the games in general evenly enough. They play too many favorites and they are often way too generous to one team or other in a game, particularly to underdogs playing a "spoiling" game. That is the real problem here, not the manager complaining about it afterwards.
