Getting back to the point..........hopefully. Wengers record regarding trophies is not too flash lately, but that doesn't make him a bad manager. He is a quirky bugger though, and seemingly stubborn. His philosophy of attacking football is admirable, though not always successful. On the occasions his squad is at its top , his teams are brilliant, but he places too much confidence in his young players rising quickly enough to match it with hardened professionals. Were he to be a tad more pragmatic and get a couple of hard heads in to go with his brilliant kids, things could turn around quickly. Surely he will go down this path soon, as stadium issues etc are now in place.
That's a pretty good summary of where we're at. We haven't had a bottomless pit of Rubles or Dirhams to buy our way to the top, so we've had to use youth, augmented with the odd established player. But we've always stuck to playing the beautiful game and employed an honest approach to running our club. We're now in a position where we can spend what we've earned and push for a victory for football and doing things the right way.
I hope for your sake you do so, because really, Wenger has no excuses now . He has to up the ante and has funds available. I'm not so anti Arsenal as others on here, my grand dad actually played for them as a very young bloke, when they were still in Woolwich, but a badly broken leg ended that before it really got started. Nevertheless, I really enjoy sticking it to my Arsenal supporting brother when Chelsea roll them !!!
haha my brother and mum support Arsenal too, me and my dad (RIP) were the chelsea contingent in the family. I am not Anti Arsenal at all. I just think that Arsenal really need to push on an DO SOMETHING now, and I am not sure if Wenger is the man to do it, maybe he will prove me wrong.
I have a great mental image of the OP screwing his face up into a ball of anger at Arsenal winning the FA cup
Well, you have your trophy now Piskie, and my brother was on the phone to me at 4 .30am our time, about half a second after the final whistle !!! At least Bodanki was spared that joy by his Mum and brother !! Very good win after that sort of start, Ramsey is some player. Arsene can open a new bottle of silver polish now, maybe he'll get to use it again in the next 10 years.
Saw a few of the Arsenal boys last night. Proper old school boys: Pleased for them. Good that at least one London club won a trophy, especially with Fulham getting relegated. Let's hope QPR beat Derby so we have a decent London derby next season. We should buy Ramsey to play alongside Matic, especially if Jose wants a box-to-box rather than regista type Kroos player there
Even your tainted rubles won't prize Ramsey from Arsenal Besides, why would he want to go and play for the specialist in failure, when he is winning trophies with Arsenal ?
Yep I'm another one with Gooners in the family. Dad was one, young Danny my cousin is one. Dad I think because of an Irish connection, to him Arsenal were an 'Irish' club in that so many Irish seemed to play for them at one time. Danny is from Woolwich, so he says he supports his local club. I have tried to tell him the two guys that owned Arsenal who moved the club from the Artillery fields did so against the pleas of their pitifully small crowd of supporters of the time, (the team used to change into kit inside an old artillery wagon), moving to a more populous demographic (yeah right next to Spurs pull the other one) but then Danny is young awwwwww bless. I always thought of Arsenal as a traditional, well run and an honourable club, unfortunately as with all clubs some supporters do their best to offend everyone, and of course beating them allowed me to say 'Arsenal played well Dad you should be proud that Va Va Voom is a great player, we should sign him.' then go and make a mug of tea smirking.
My grand dad was Irish as well, from Waterford, though he was living in St Marys Cray in Kent when his short Arsenal career happened. I didn't know there were polar bears in Ireland actually, though it's been cold enough every time I've been there.
