Poor Arsene Wenger. In the space of a week, the wily, old voyeur (just kidding) has
seen his football philosophy completely crushed. While the likes of Chelsea and more
recently Manchester City have thrown millions into the transfer market in an attempt to
‘buy' silverware and fast-forward their club's progress, Arsene Wenger has continually
professed a more frugal approach – spending within one's own budget and not relying on
billionaire bankrollers.
Now some of you will disagree and point out the comprehensive 3-0 demolition of Spurs as our
best win. Another group will remind me of the 6-1 trashing of Everton at Goodison Park. And then a
few will could claim that winning at Fulham despite being outplayed was rather impressive. I
actually believe the result at Craven Cottage was our best result (note, not necessarily best
performance) until today.
Despite the fact that we have match today there's very little Arenal news about. I suppose given
that most of our news usually revolves around yet another player being injured I suppose we should
be glad that things are a bit quiet.
In crazy land Man City seem to actually think they can persuade Wenger to become their manager.
Mark Hughes was tipped by some to be the successor of Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United
manager, the club where he had become a legend after playing at Old Trafford for 13 years.
But he took the job at City, ruling out any possible future as United boss. 18 months later he
was sacked, with a 10th placed finish all he had to bring about over his time at The Richest Club
in the World.
