Mancini was useless on the pitch. Utter garbage and a good sense of humour doesn't change that. Would get into my worst ever Arsenal team alongside Gus Caesar.

Would have been a yellow and Aguero would have spent the rest of the match looking over his shoulder because Willie would have been behind him all game not in front.

Just answer the question witness. Mancini or Chambers?

Even Chambers isn't as bad as Mancini.

Sold our best GK for £10m to a team who want him to succeed one of the greatest GKs of all time.
Play a winger at wing back against the club he joins a few days later - he helps us to a humiliating 4-0 defeat

As per Daz's comments, laying into someone, giving them abuse and telling us all how awful everything is for over a decade doesn't give someone the right to toss themselves off in a self congratulatory way when the reality evolves to set their opinions, particularly when you refuse dissenting comment.

And he may have said he blocked abusive comments, but experience taught me that for a long time he just deleted and blocked any counter argument, and became well known for it.

Also, anyone calling themselves xxx TRUTH tends to be an angry nutjob.

Yes

Hello Pete. Does anyone have any idea what Bould gets paid?
I do have some sympathy that you and a few others actively protested against the manager, but for a variety of reasons the moment didn't catch on. However, it did bring a lot of attention to the issue, which will probably help facilitate his removal this summer. But as Arseblog wrote yesterday, who's job is it to throw the managerial towel in the ring, and surely they are culpable too? Anyway, unless he wins the Europa League I find it inconceivable that he will be the Arsenal manager next season.

I think his confidence is gone and he may reach the depths.

A bog average manager could get this same team defending better.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... pbell.html

We've been saying so for a long while already

As much as I've found Arsenal's involvement in the Champions League boring, I could see the logic of trying to get in it, and recognised it as an achievement of sorts. However, as we increasingly struggled to qualify for it only to then crash out immediately in the knock out stages, it no longer seemed an acceptable trade off for failing to mount a title challenge. I think the brilliant FA Cup victories helped divert attention from this decline, and now we have no shiny cups to divert us from the teams gradual decay.

I remember when I was about 10 and given the corner taking responsibilities by the teacher/manager. Decent run up to give it a bit of power and somehow managed to shank the ball straight over the goal line. The mixture of 11 happy faces and 11 sad faces all looking at me as I trotted back to my LB position was pretty awkward. Not sure I ever got the chance to take another corner, at least not that day.

In a heartbeat. And it would have the bonus that we wouldn't have to play in the Europa Cup.

Sod the Europa League, sack him anyway. Barney Ronay did an article in the Guardian yesterday and this bit from it made me laugh.

"Not that Arsenal should not sack Arsene Wenger. Probably they should sack him twice to make sure. Or best of all go back in time and sack him two years ago, bring him and sack him again now just to make the point. Arsenal's manager has clearly run his race at this club."

He's assistant manager of Arsenal football club.

He's gotta be on 500k to a million quid a year. If Wenger gets 10 surely his assistant must get one. Unless it's literally Smithers salary to Mr Burns

Not sure the school fees are a problem for him

Barney Ronay is very funny.
By the way, I'm not saying Wenger should stay if we somehow won the Europa league. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Arsenal board would used it as a justification to let him see out his contract.

Oi AG get of Gaz's computer................

Daft question. Obvious answer.

Question for the forum: The Cookie Monster or Callum Chambers ?

Step forward Mr monster .....

By the way does anybody believe those leaked reports in the papers this morning with the list of managers ? Very timely eh?

A change could be imminent!! yeah until everyone’s renewed their memberships and Wenger signs a new contract

Yeah the Ronay article was excellent because it pins down the general malaise at the club, the atmosphere that has made so many of us turn to other smaller clubs for relief from the general ennui and lack of heart. In some cases they won't come back.

Getting rid of Wenger won't be sufficient to get rid of that malaise but it is absolutely necessary.

My rule is simply that I want us to lose any game that makes him staying more likely consequently I am very keen that we go out of the Europa Cup as soon as possible. Nothing to do with underappreciating that trophy I just want Wenger to go now more than anything else.

It is utterly pointless for people like Hoy to point out how dysfunctional and damaging it is to want your side to lose. I know that. Like many on here I have been to hundreds of games home and away, I have been at almost all the big occasions of the Graham and Wenger years. It would have been unthinkable to me only two years ago that I would feel like this. I'm not a glory hunter, it's not because we're not winning anything, because I save my passion for a mid-table championship side and follow their games with the desperate anxiety for them to win that fans should feel for their club. My son has gone right over to them and won't come back again. It is an indictment of the club (and our supine acceptance of foreign ownership which I did protest ages ago and was accused of being a racist!) that this has happened and I would suggest that anybody who continues to defend the current set-up is either stupid, not paying attention or simply doesn't care enough. That's the paradox really. The most "loyal" fans just switch off from the evidence in front of their eyes.

Where I will blame our fans is for their idiotic taunting of the United fans during the 2005 "cup final" for the Glazer takeover that they were actively protesting at the time.

Chiickens have sure come home to roost now, you morons.

I dunno I think the pressure is really building although I have thought that before.

And here we are again with speculation about it inflicting real damage on the club and him seemingly impervious to it all the only thing that matters is to carry on.

Well they won't have that opportunity. Cos there is no way we are winning the EL. There are at least 3 or 4 teams left in the comp who can destroy us. And we're playing one of them next week.

USA USA USA !!

Also that game was the symbolic end of Arsenal being a force. Vieira scored the penalty and was promptly sold in what many of our fans were describing as a "savvy" piece of transfer business by arsene (wot bollocks)

Like I said as soon as we lost our golden generation of French players Wenger lost it and couldn't evolve. He's a pretty one dimensional geezer and couldn't change. It must be the missionary position or bust with Arsene. Poor Mrs W

This echos me too , trouble is my “ smaller” team went and got themselves promoted to the prem

Except Wenger DID change. That marked the start of the Fabregas/skilful midget/fake Barcelona era.

Strange to think that Fabregas departed seven years ago.

Since then we haven't had much of an identity at all and that has brought us to our current point of having none at all, just buying random players partly to alleviate fan unrest and chucking them on the pitch hoping it will all lead to some kind of total football by default.

In some ways, even though both are great players the Sanchez/Özil era will be seen as a really horrible one. Sourness throughout.

The king is in the all together, the all together, the altogether...

Yeah it's a dilemma! I like the Championship and enjoy playing the old school clubs like Leeds (not so much last week) and Forest.

Don't worry, I suspect they'll be back soon.

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/02/27/1 ... as-manager

Arsenal legend calls for sacking of Arsene Wenger as manager

Former Arsenal legend Ian Wright has launched a stinging broadside at manager Arsene Wenger, saying he could not make a case for him to remain in charge after this season.

not much chance of Coventry being in the Prem anytime soon so no worries for me...

I don't really consider that he changed. He signed a different class of player as our transfer policy went from proactive (Highbury) to reactive (Emirates) and the players tended to be smaller, Spanish types as that was what was available at the time of each panic buy ! He's not a tactical wizard so I don't think he decided to change style personally it was a consequence of our player acquisitions. He's not that smart actually!

Agree the Özil era will be seen as a horrid one. The Side we had with gallas, adebayor and Cesc looks like world beaters compared to the state of our team now.

Wouldn’t be so sure the way they’ve been playing recently , very good defence all season and been scoring goals & creating chances lately .

Unless arsenal turn in one of their increasingly rare A performances they could well Find out this on Sunday

If you haven’t seen the latest dave squires in the guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng ... -prisoners

What took you Ian? Instead of slagging our efforts off last year

I really hope that I'm wrong. I have no expectation that Arsene will leave anytime soon.

He sees retirement as 'death'. No other club would want him. It appears to be his decision when he leaves and this has been the case for far too long now.

He must have something on someone.

He absolutely changed. He was hugely influenced by the success of Spain and Barca and even said as much. Our style of play became much closer to Barca and far less direct than it had been in his Highbury years. It also has to be said that the 2008 side was a very good football team and played some really exciting and dynamic football. They were hugely unlucky that season and it is often overlooked that the two teams that finished above them contested the CL final. Both were excellent sides. After that though, the tippy tapply took over and eventually disintegrated into the mess we have now.

I just don't think Wenger is that tactically proactive to make that change. The reason our style changed was because we couldn't afford the pace and power players like Drogba and Essien who were around that time. Cue a boatload of midgets and dwarves arriving from all over the place including Spain and voila there's your new on pitch strategy !

He is also on a decent pay packet.

Imagine having 100 million quid in the bank and thinking retirement is death. It would be the start for me not the end.

I'd retire on half a mill no problem.