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All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

One more vote against the current manager

28 April, 2011 10:00 7 comments
All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Consistent failure to deliver means the tide has turned

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‘All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ may be a widely misquoted saying. But in a much, much. much smaller way we've seen this at Arsenal. A widely respected manager has been allowed to indulge his own personal fantasy about winning the Premier League with a group of unproven, underachieving, injury prone, players who earn vast amounts of money for repeatedly failing to deliver. For six years. His fantasy fails time after time. But, according to the manager it's the fault of the officials, of clubs who spend too much money, of everyone but himself.

You can't really blame the players. They have been brought by the manager (with the exception of Wilshere), trained by the manager and their tactics decided by the manager. So, lets face a few facts. The manager has failed. He's run out of ideas. His tactics don't work. The players don't respond to his management.

The same manager has been indulged by a board whose aim has been determined to pass the club onto a safe pair of hands. For £11,750 per share. Judas only got 30 pieces of silver. To enable the vast profit the board has made they have given the manager total power in the club. We were given a new training ground, then a new stadium and a team that went from going 49 games unbeaten to a team that currently is 14th in the Premier league form table.

Compared to every club below 3rd and, probably, soon every club below 4th our problems are laughably small. But we've seen how other clubs have fallen apart under foreign owners and failed managers. I really, really don't want to see Arsenal follow them.

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  1. L Andreou

    Apr 29, 2011, 20:20 #6024

    The case to oust him is compelling, and grows ever stronger. Wenger's attempt/s at landing the title in recent years are tantamount to something like the great rock 'n' roll swindle, or never mind the ******** here's the Arsene! Scandalous. The football gods laughed it off, intervened a la Wembley, and elsewhere, then wholeheartedly dismissed it as unworthy. Crap defence, no bottle, no leader, tippy tappy cack. Wenger OUT!

  2. mark from aylesbury

    Apr 29, 2011, 8:09 #5992

    I suppose Kronke will give him one more season. Whether the supporters will is open to question. Do we really want a decade of experimental failure? For christ sake any other sane man would have pulled the plug or at least altered matters 3 years ago.

  3. Munitionsman

    Apr 29, 2011, 8:04 #5991

    PPP you would have been at home in the macarthy era. Don't see my truth therefore must be a commie. Like those folks in ten years you will deny ever having supporting wenger. Make no mistake you are a wenger supporter first and an arsenal supporter by association.

  4. clockendpaul

    Apr 28, 2011, 18:40 #5982

    Great artical agree with everything, this situation reminds me of tony blairs political career, was a breathe of fresh air at the start then got too big for his boots, could'nt tell the truth, loved the spin and ended up being despised by many.

  5. ppp

    Apr 28, 2011, 18:35 #5980

    You'll find the anti-arsenal brigade (such as the writer of this article and the respondant Mark) referring to "fergie" and their other favourite managers like redknapp and mourinho all the time. It's because they don't support Arsenal. Ignore them.

  6. Mark

    Apr 28, 2011, 12:49 #5961

    we should have all known on that fateful day at birmingham with that horrific injury to eduardo, that our manager did not have the right personality or character to bring his team of players through a bad time. the picture of wenger on the touchline at bolton with his head in the hands is almost identical to gallas when birmingham equalised that day. somehow or other i cannot see Fergy ever ever on his knees over anything - far more likely to run on the pitch to remonstrate with an opposing player or to rollock his own player. arent you all fed up with being fodder for the likes of stoke, birmingham, etc to bully when they want ? fed up with being a team of boys or when push comes to shove cry for their mummy instead of fighting for the club and the fans ? well I for one am.

  7. John

    Apr 28, 2011, 12:35 #5953

    I agree we can have a go at our players and some are really ****.But they have been bought assembled and trained(dont laugh) by Mr Magoo.This is a manager who thought Stephanovs was a footballer.Wenger was lucky because when he took over he was left a platform of a defence of Seaman Dixon Winterburn TA Bould/Keown to build on.Can you imagine if he left tomorrow the new manager would have clueless Clichy, Djourou Koscielny and Squllaci!!!.My mate believes Wenger is running down the team so that when he does go his replacement will be left with a **** team.Look at the **** Hodgson had when he took over from Benitez