Arsene's ailings

[DavidsSpecs]

"We won the trophy for the most unlucky team last year. Is it a trophy to finish 12th and win the Carling Cup? The real quality of a big club is to fight for the championship."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Not sure if anyone managed to read these comments from Arsene. Quite the blatant dig at us. Bitter or correct?

 

[polski sklep]

The first sentence bitter, the second two both.

 

[Bingy]

No matter what we read into this quote.....it is 'spot on' as far as TOP class football is concerned. We were below mid table and managed to win a minor cup...EVEN if it was against a TOP 4 team. I would not dare to settle for the same season trophy haul this year. You can say 'done that, been there' about the CC and 12th. NOTHING short of CL qualification will suffice, this term. It may be a HUGH leap but it is a neccessary step, given the imports and exports of the last 2 years. The time has come for maturity of the Levi/ENC success plan! COYS!

 

[Bonjour]

Bollocks.

Some people need reminding what the whole idea of cup competition is all about..

 

[worcestersauce]

:grin:

"We won the trophy for the most unlucky team last year. Is it a trophy to finish 12th and win the Carling Cup? The real quality of a big club is to fight for the championship."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
quote]

And that is why he will never really understand English Football, English Footballers or Basically Englishmen in General.

To answer the question Yes it is a trophy to finish twelth and win the Carling cup, it's a big silver cup, we can show him it next time he's at the lane.
Still perhaps one day he will get his club to fight for the championship, they haven't done for a few years now and the record books don't name third and fourth.

It's at times like this when his French heritage really comes out.

 

[DavidsSpecs]

No matter what we read into this quote.....it is 'spot on' as far as TOP class football is concerned. We were below mid table and managed to win a minor cup...EVEN if it was against a TOP 4 team. I would not dare to settle for the same season trophy haul this year. You can say 'done that, been there' about the CC and 12th. NOTHING short of CL qualification will suffice, this term. It may be a HUGH leap but it is a neccessary step, given the imports and exports of the last 2 years. The time has come for maturity of the Levi/ENC success plan! COYS!

I agree to the extent that we musn't get carried away with winning the CC. Especially considering Portsmouth winning the FA Cup. Winning a cup doesn't = great team. But also to say it's Champs league or nothing this year is a bit unfair, not unrealistic necessarily but for me and, probably most, coming close would suffice. I think the fact that we beat Arsenal and Chelsea on our way to the cup - and in style - makes it all the more significant. I would take those two wins over the cup anyday,

 

[RobinLeonard]

I saw that trophy, it actually reads: Trophy for the team who had a golden chance to win the premiership but didn't because when things got tough the squad was too small, young and injury prone.

For us to finish 12th is not good enough but I don't believe Wenger is in a position to judge.

 

[Flatters]

We finished 11th, not 12th. Makes all the difference.

 

[RuislipSpur]

I believe the phrase that sums this up is:

5-1, Shhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yes that will do the trick.

 

[TheChosenOne]

:grin:

"We won the trophy for the most unlucky team last year. Is it a trophy to finish 12th and win the Carling Cup? The real quality of a big club is to fight for the championship."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
quote]

And that is why he will never really understand English Football, English Footballers or Basically Englishmen in General.

To answer the question Yes it is a trophy to finish twelth and win the Carling cup, it's a big silver cup, we can show him it next time he's at the lane.
Still perhaps one day he will get his club to fight for the championship, they haven't done for a few years now and the record books don't name third and fourth.

It's at times like this when his French heritage really comes out.

He is a quasi-German coming from Alsace -like Alsatian dogs (German Shepherds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace


He is of course also a fucking muppet.

 

[DC_Boy]

yep I was just about to point out that we finished 11th Flatters - surprised no-one else did

as to Wenger's point - fair enough - but fact is we won a trophy - they didn't - it's not our problem he put out a weakened team - as a manger he makes his choices and lives with them

I remember Merson being furious with his choices -

I also remember in 87 us having to play a stack of games with a squad that couldn't cope - we ended up trohyless, though we were probably the best team that season - certainly the second best

I don't recall us being handed an 'unlucky trophy' in consolation

 

[Kendall]

I agree with his general view. Some of the older fans on here are still totally in love with the idea of winning a cup once in a blue moon, but for us to be taken seriously with the Arsenals and Uniteds of this world then we need to be up there in the CL, perhaps then we wouldn't be losing the Carricks and the Berbatovs.

We would be rinsing arsenal if they hadn't qualified for the CL & only won the CC.

 

[Reece]

pure rinse out

 

[worcestersauce]

:grin:

He is a quasi-German coming from Alsace -like Alsatian dogs (German Shepherds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace


He is of course also a fucking muppet.

Funnily enough I did put his French/German heritage but took out the German because I'm quite fond of Germans.

 

[Coyboy]

I wish he would stop going on about being unlucky. You lost on four counts, two of them by 5-1 and 4-0. How is that 'unlucky'? Get over it and stop trying to release praise and glory from us by enlisting sympathy for you. It's bitter and transparent. And you are a grade A prick.

 

[llamafarmer]

"We won the trophy for the most unlucky team last year. Is it a trophy to finish 12th and win the Carling Cup? The real quality of a big club is to fight for the championship."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

I partly agree with that last bit, in that the league is the real measure of your position as a club, but the rest of it is just his usual arrogant bollocks. Whinging about being the most unlucky team of the year isn't really befitting of a manager of his status, particularly when you consider they were well out of the title race. Again.

If only you'd had some money to spend this summer Arsene, you may have been able to hope for better than another fight for 3rd place. :violin:

 

[AngerManagement]

Moaning prick, they didn't even challage for the title really anyway! look how long before the final weeks of the season they were out of contention.

I really hope they win fuck all again this year and we give them another beating at the lane. Arrogant wankers

 

[David St Hubbins]

"We won the trophy for the most unlucky team last year. Is it a trophy to finish 12th and win the Carling Cup? The real quality of a big club is to fight for the championship."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Not sure if anyone managed to read these comments from Arsene. Quite the blatant dig at us. Bitter or correct?[/quot

Bitter.

He's obviously getting on as he's mental capacity has gone as well as his sight, unlucky as they should make sure they have enough money for wages/transfer fees before they move stadiums and then start crying like the big girls blouses the whole bloody lot of them obviously are when there's nothing to show for it and blame everyone else for not forward planning.

Let's thank god he's THEIR manager, because if he was ours we'd have pulled our hair out at his stupid comments and his John Cleese/Holy Grail voice in his outrageous accent :shake:

 

[alextheyid]

what a jizz-monkey..

 

[haxman]

:grin:

He is a quasi-German coming from Alsace -like Alsatian dogs (German Shepherds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace


He is of course also a fucking muppet.

Never a truer word said.