Dominic Colasanto
Sunday’s debacle against Villa was THE final straw for me and a lot of other fans judging by the boos, the 6% chants and the protest before the game. Villa were there for the taking, only two away wins all season, although you shouldn’t underestimate your opponents too much, as we have done for most of the season (West Brom at home, Newcastle at home and now Villa).
This game was winnable to say the least but yet again we screw it up. Aside from the fact that the ref got some decisions horribly wrong, we had to wait till the last ten minutes before we woke up. Haven’t this team learned that you have to concentrate from the first till the final whistle? Are they actually working on how to move without the ball in training? Do they work on defending? Who do they have on the coaching staff to teach the players these vital aspects of the game? Why Pat Rice is staying on I don’t know, it’s time for a shake up at the whole club as it’s getting silly now and we are becoming a laughing stock.
To start with, the Chairman has to stand down. After Peter Hill-Wood's comments about the fans being "silly" and "stupid", he should take a look in the mirror. You can’t have your Chairman saying things like that to the people whose money makes a large part of the club function and pays the players’ wages, so he has to go. Then there should be a full time defence coach appointed. Maybe Martin Keown or even Steve Bould - who is already there as a coach. Those two guys had defending drummed into them by George Graham and why not give the goalkeeping coach job to David Seaman?
Then comes the playing staff. Wenger’s got the money from the sales of Adebayor and Toure plus whatever we get for the inevitable sale of Cesc and whoever else goes. So Wenger should get in there quickly before Citeh come sniffing around. The reason why United have won the title apart from a helping hand from officials is that Fergie has moved with the times tactically and it’s time Wenger should too or he should step down. There were times when we played shocking then we had Bergkamp, Henry, Pires, Ljungberg and going even further back, Adams, Wrighty and Merson, players who could conjure something out of nothing even if they had a bad day at the office.
The Board won’t ever sack Wenger, he makes the big profits they want, so if he does go he will have to resign and I can’t see that happening. So let’s see what happens. I for one though am not convinced.
