A couple of days go by and we have our own "smoking gun" and 'arry goes home apparently...
Sunday, 26 October 08, 05:32 AM · Comments(0)
I think there is one cast iron piece of criticism that can be aimed at Arsene Wenger and that's his stubbornness to a fault. Sometimes having the courage of your convictions is a good thing and that has been shown to be true in the past for Arsenal and will continue to be the case for much of the future. His desire to see the younger players succeed without resorting to the multi-million pound player has its good and bad points but the style of football cannot be criticised and with the current environment may prove very fruitful. However, the continuing (over 2 seasons now) support of William Gallas as captain (sorry, el capi) is a digging of the heels one too many times. It seems that he can make mistake after mistake (both on and, now, off the field) and he is forgiven. Does Wenger see a different player in training and do the players all have a warmth and regard for him as a player and captain that we've never seen, there must be something there that allows him to keep the armband!
Unsurprising news of the weekend was the move of Redknapp to the Spuds, this had been rumoured towards the end of last week and it seemed to have a momentum that indicated it was going to happen sooner than later. Unfortunately, for us Arsenal fans, it seems that Redknapp will not be taking charge today and so his first game will be the derby on Wednesday night. I have, and so do many of my season ticket holding colleagues, huge reservations about meeting teams with new managers. Players who had shown little effort, skill or ability suddenly become transformed into a wonderful team during the new manager's first game and subsequent honeymoon period. It's not an excuse and I think we should still go out and win the game, hopefully after a decent result against West Ham (another team that tend to do reasonably well against us).
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