Elliot Segal
I wrote a piece two months ago, after the Chelsea game which was admittedly bland and paid far too much respect to Arsene Wenger. I was wrong.
Since that game we have witnessed some of the most spineless, pathetic, dismal and gutless performances in many a year culminating in the disgrace at Palace with fans chanting that the players were not fit to wear the shirt. You can blame the players as much as you want but the responsibility and fault lies with one man. Arsene Wenger.
The recent run of results we've been on would be enough to see Chelsea managers of the past sacked but different rules of accountability apply to this man who is getting more incompetent, deranged and deluded with each passing fiasco of a performance.
I'm sick of Chamberlain or Walcott coming on TV after a game and "being honest". No good after the game. Some players who wouldn't get near the bench of other top clubs spout how they back the manager but you do it on the pitch and since January they haven't. They've downed tools. What would Adams, Vieira etc make of it? Lehmann would have decked half the defence the way we "defended" at Palace.
In the midst of this, we have had to watch Spurs mount a title challenge that is now far more serious than this time a year ago whilst we're in a pathetic scramble for 4th. Again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Arsene Wenger WAS a great manager and he DID great things. But those times are gone. He surrounds himself with yes men who don't challenge him, persists with the same inane tactics and substitutions whilst expecting different results. He's actually achieved the feat of taking us backwards.
To those who say we should give him respect, why? What respect does he show us? He smirks at us whilst hiding about his future, is dismissive, insults us, considers us irrelevant, laughs at us, said we should expect ticket prices to remain high so that his greedy wages can be paid. He doesn't respect you but thinks you should shut up and accept mediocrity.
Wenger is so deluded he's tried to rewrite history and say he built the club. That's utter nonsense. He helped bring the club forward into the 21st century but on the pitch, he's taken us backwards.
Nobody has a divine right to a job anywhere in the world and I genuinely do not understand why Arsenal don't just sack him because he is dragging us down with his vanity.
Whatever your personal affection is for Wenger, it's time for him to go. He will never change and therefore things will stay the same.
It's 1886 not 1996 that this club was formed.
It's Arsenal FC not Arsene FC.
