Arsene Wenger was driving down to the beach with his family, on the M3. He needed some petrol if he was going to complete his journey to premier league beach. At the petrol station in Basingstoke, Defender Unleaded was £1.40 a litre. Wenger said to the man at the kiosk 'I'll give you £1.38 a litre' and the guy tells him to piss off. At the next petrol station, it's £1.39 a litre. Again, Wenger tries to haggle the price down, instead of buying the thing that will guarantee him arriving at the glorious destination. Finally, just before his Carsenal is about to run out of fuel, he finds a petrol station that sells petrol at £1.38 a litre, a price he is happy to pay. Unfortunately, at the last petrol station, he bought lots of meaningless ****, that didn't help him get to the premier league beach, such as a squillaci chocolate bar, a denilson tent, and a Chamberlain with the power of a million candles. His excuse was that these items would help him out in the future. But ultimately, because he'd spent all his cash on **** like that, stuff that might be useful in about 10 years, he didn't have enough money to get to premier league beach. And so, he fell short once again. "Oh well," said Mr Wenger, "There's always Next Year" But Next year, the price of petrol will go up. And Man City have a hybrid that will... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah **** it. I tried to push that car analogy to the max, and I think I've done it.
I had a slightly different analogy in my mind. Arsenal is like a car with the owner who prefers to save on regular service. It was not too expensive to service it - a proper DM two years ago, a good defender last summer, a better forward when there was one on the market, to fix (replace) Eboue, Denilson, Diaby a year or two ago, etc. etc. This car would be still running smoothly, even without Cesc. But now it just suddenly broke. Collapsed. as expected when a car is not being serviced properly. And it looks like it will cost an arm and a leg to fix it now.
The fans insist we are on a journey - Wenger go fill up the car NOW. But he decides to buy just 10 litres cheap, still driving. Later he buys another 10 litres still driving, the tank is nearly empty. Sadly all the garages are now much more expensive - he keeps driving past them. So when he HAS to top up, the price is now MUCH higher and the fans don't trust the iffy petrol brand. End result the tank full cost more than if he bought at the start, and the petrol is dubious.
