Adrian Wagenaar
The editor’s piece after the Man Utd cup defeat was a very good article - and one supported by a great majority of the fans. I disagree with one point though. He stated we are fighting for third spot, whereas I think we will be fighting for 4th with the Spuds who are now a proper team (as I feared) and have a bigger and more balanced squad. I could have coped with the defeat at Old Trafford, just, but when Djourou went off, with it went any remote hope of the title.
This ridiculous situation has been foretold every year for the last three seasons. I have written every year that we will run out of players and so it has proved. Someone wrote that Wenger is just a "spin doctor" and that sums up part of his current mental state. When he states "we have great mental strength" he is expressing his own fears about the team's (his team’s) lack of toughness and when he laughingly suggests "this team has steel" he is openly worried about how weak Diaby, Rosicky, Denilson etc are when the going gets tough.
The most worrying aspect for me is that as a fan I have been more accurate in the summing up of Arsenal during the last three seasons than the man who is paid millions to put together a team that can at least last the course! The team is so brittle and collapses under pressure to the point that the man of the match for the last few games is a nineteen year old rookie who has played almost on his own. That he is English leads me to places I don't really want to go.
How Wenger has allowed this to happen and how openly old adversaries are lining up to give him a metaphoric slap is very disturbing and suggest Wenger's mental health is not what it should be. He was so tactically out thought by Ferguson last Saturday that it was embarrassing. For me it is not our defeats but the manner of them that need questioning.
