The criticism of Arsene Wenger has gone too far. It’s about time this nonsense stopped. Take this snippet from Kevin McCarra in the Guardian implying that Wenger is obstinate to the point of deafness or even stupidity:

“An inquiry about the shortage of firepower is met with the response that Nicklas Bendtner, 20, will be better next season. Avram Grant, Rafael Benítez and even Sir Alex Ferguson would hesitate to speak in such fashion.”

But what lack of firepower is McCarra talking about? The fact still remains that Arsenals strikers; Adebayor, Van Persie, Bendtner, Eduardo and Walcott have scored more goals than any strike force in the league except Tottenham’s. 56 goals from the Arsenal frontmen. United’s Tevez, Rooney and Saha have 39, Chelsea’s Drogba, Sheva, Pizarro, Kalou, and Anelka have 35. Even though Van Persie and Eduardo have missed significant portions of the season to injury. Arsenal have scored more goals than every team in the league except a Ronaldo-propelled Manchester United. What Firepower is this moron talking about? McMoron went ahead to write:

As Wenger will know, the true argument is that Arsenal need to be able to practise squad rotation so that key figures do not tire so noticeably.

Oh Jeeze, not the silly squad rotation argument again!! So noticeably tired are Arsenal that they are dominating games, outrunning their opposition in midfield and scoring late goals. The Guardian and Muck-Curry have been at the forefront of anti-Benitez, anti-rotation stuff all season. http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2259381,00.html Now rotation is the best thing since the holy grail! But do these fools ever even consider the facts? Every member of the Arsenal squad has missed at least 2 games to injury this season. If Wenger didn’t rotate, how did Arsenal get to be the team in Europe that has played the most games this season? Can somebody explain this to me?

Here are statistics about the number of players that have featured for top clubs this season- Arsenal-29 Manchester United-29 Chelsea-27 Liverpool-27 Inter-28 Barcelona-24 Lyon-27 Bayern Munich-22 Real Madrid-23

Manchester United that is trumpeted by the media as that great paragon of rotation have players with the following number of appearances this season: Ferdinand-43 Vidic-41 Carrick-42 Evra-41 Brown-44 Ronaldo-41

Arsenal’s most featured players are: Clichy-44 Fabregas-42 Adebayor-44 Flamini-40 Hleb-40 SOURCE: soccerbase.com

Despite the fact that Arsenal have played 3 games (at least) more than United this season (Carling Cup games)!

Talking of which; how come nobody mentions that Arsenal teams consisting of second-stringers have won results against, Spurs (1-1 at home), Blackburn, Slavia Prague, Staeua Bucharest, Newcastle in the Champions League and domestic cups? It’s also patently false that Arsenal have a smaller squad than is needed to win the title. Some stats that negate that oft-repeated bit of crap:

Squad size of Teams leading across Europe: United: 28-but 2 players were added 3 weeks ago who haven’t featured. Lyon-26 Bayern Munich-24 Inter-27 Real Madrid-25 Porto-27 PSV-26 Arsenal-28 Source: Club Websites

Squad size of Premiership winning teams since 2004: 2007-United-29 2006-Chesea-27 2005-Chelsea-30 2004-Arsenal-22 Source: ESPN

There are more idiots with pens though. I normally wouldn’t take up issue with anyone who writes for the Daily Mail. But this guy here has slagged my players. I won’t link to his column but his name’s Neil Ashton. He said Bendtner, Eboue and Senderos are not good enough to get into the Manchester United team. Oh really? The same Manchester United team that has on its books such illustrious players as O’Shea, Fletcher, Simpson, Eagles, Dong, none of which would make the Arsenal squad.

Jose Mourinho now runs the British media. They’re taking talking points from him. The Daily Mail guy actually quoted Moaninho’s jealous jibe about Arsene not facing pressure at Arsenal, a bid for Arsene’s job by the way. The Daily Mail guy I am sorry to say goes to cocktail parties and introduces himself as a journalist. Isn’t impersonation a crime?

This is why Newspapers are dying.

We are not good enough to win the title because, with 8 matches to go this season, we are only second on the league table tied on points with the leaders.

We are dismal because everybody told us we will be this season. Wenger has refused to splash out at least £100 million on players and so we end up leading the league all season and being one of two teams in Europe that have lost just once this season.

We are very bad. We needed 2 legs to eliminate AC Milan, the champions League holders from the tournament, after becoming the first British team to win at their San Siro shrine. Our squad lacks depth. This season, not player in our squad has escaped missing at least two games to injury. Our squad is so bad that when injuries and the Africa Cup of Nations decimated our squad, we extended our lead in the league buy 5 points and not 15 as you would expect from a great squad.

Most of our players are not good enough for the Premiership. Adebayor's 19 goals may include 2 or 3 goals of the season contenders but he's just a fluke and arrogant pretender whose work rate on the pitch is as high as his complete usefulness for anything other than stacking high shelves. Why on earth would a strong team like Aston Villa want Justin Hoyte? He clearly would never make it in the Premiership. Who cares how well he played in the Carling Cup?

Walcott is the worst. It does not matter that he has had such an impact on our season in both league and Champions League. At 18 he should be a World Player of the Year contender. What about Diaby. He simply lacks class and will never make it as a footballer.

So fellow gooners, let's just throw away our season tickets, fire the manager, disband the team and go support the Chavs.

With the Chavs you can be sure of the following:

1. The manager will spend at least £100 million a year. Who cares what he spends it on. Who cares if that's sustainable? They won the FA Cup last year.

2. There will be no over-intricate wussy passing football. They'll grind out 1-0 victories till Jesus comes to take us all home.

3. Who cares if they might not win anything this year? The point is that the press will always respect them because you see it's all about spending that money. Get it?

4. You can be sure of easy draws and home advantage in every cup draw. So there you have it. We are dismal. So dismal we still have a chance to win the league. I want to congratulate Arsene Wenger and the entire club staff for their dismal record over all these years.

Today's newspapers are reporting a new raft of comments made by Jose Mourinho attacking Arsene Wenger. He reportedly made the following comments:

Arsenal is a unique team, their coach hasn’t won anything for years and is still an idol. There is no pressure at Arsenal. But do not say he is growing young players into talents. What he does is take young players who are jewels and polishes them. It’s different. He has time to work in a serene atmosphere and get result".

It's hard to imagine how Mourinho's little mind works but this really sounds like he's frustrated. He would like to be back in the Premiership but he knows he has no chance of getting Wenger's or Ferguson's jobs. He can't go to Liverpool because they hate him there. Arsenal would have been the obvious target since Wenger has not won a trophy since 2005 but nobody even challenges his job.

Well Mr. Mourinho, just in case you're looking at Wenger's job I can send you a certificate of failure. Arsenal would never hire you. In the unimaginable scenario that Arsene's job was under pressure, other managers would be considered and not you.

Here's why, Mr. Mourinho:

1. Arsenal would not give you £600 million to spend on players.

2. Arsenal like to do things the right way. That means that the footballing operations have to be financially viable. Your record in this regard is not so great Mr. Mourinho.

3. Tapping-up players and buying opposition targets for any amount of money will never happen at Arsenal.

4. Arsenal is a family not an egomaniac's fiefdom. Victory through harmony is very much the goal at our club. Harmony is one trait that can not be associated with Chelsea under you.

5. Good attacking football is very much a fundamental part of the Arsenal brand. None of the teams you have ever coached has demonstrated anything remotely like this. In fact Chelsea fired you because despite those £600 million, your teams only ever seemed to win 1-0. By the way, that's why Barcelona will not hire you either.

6. Arsene Wenger has been perhaps the biggest contributor in making Arsenal one of the world's 5 richest clubs. Sound financial and football management skills is what it took. Now that he has done it, there is not a doubt that Arsenal will dominate for a while under Arsene.

7. Arsene Wenger is an idol and would remain an idol because we know that no manager in the world could have done a better job for Arsenal than he has. If you had been in the position, you might very well not have achieved anything at all. 

8. Arsene Wenger demonstrates more class in 8 minutes than you have in your circa 8-year managerial career. 

9. You're too stupid to know that the reason Wenger is not under pressure is that he has created more value for Arsenal shareholders than you could ever dream of. Which organisation in the world would fire a coach who makes so much money for them?

10. That's not all you don't realise Moaninho. You don't know that we fans worship Arsene because he has proven, over 100s of decisions, to be a sound mind who'll do the right thing for the club, the players, the fans and the shareholders. He's one of the few managers in the world who realises that a football club is really in the business of entertaining its fans. There are as many as 50,000 of us Arsenal fans in the waiting list for Arsenal season tickets because watching Arsenal is value for money.

11. You don't have as good a track-record of success as Wenger has. 

12. Arsene Wenger is given time to work at Arsenal because he has earned it. He has consistently overachieved and has never blamed the resources available for failure. You, of course famously claimed to have lost the league last season because you weren't allowed to buy players in mid-season.

13. You always burn your bridges and many of your ex-clubs will not have anything to do with you. 

14. You've actually destroyed several great players. Under your tutelage, Mikel went from being one of the most exciting young talents at the level of Messi into being a mechanical churner of identical uncreative passes. Ashley Cole went from the world's best to one of West London's worst. Joe Cole does not look like the player it seemed certain he'd be at West Ham after you knocked the creativity out of him. I could go on. We Arsenal fans shudder to think of what you'd make of Cesc Fabregas or Alex Hleb.

15. You're simply not a fit for us and the fact that you probably don't see that is the best proof of it.