Morning all.
That was a pretty good weekend for Arsenal. Both Manchester sides dropped points, Southampton and Liverpool played out a draw and Chelsea lost again after which, Mourinho went into hiding. According to the media, the Portuguese Pygmy is on the brink of the sack and a loss against Liverpool this coming weekend would see Roman wield the axe. As much as I’d love to see Mourinho out of a job, I’d much rather see him and his team struggle on for a while yet. A relegation battle would my perfect scenario, one which they fail to conquer!
It’s been nearly twenty years since a tall, skinny Frenchman was introduced to the world of English football. More importantly, he was the new Arsenal manager after Bruce Rioch was asked to step aside.
No one really knew who he was back then but as The Mirror write at the top of their Arsenal page:
Arsene Wenger invented football – Fact.
Can any of us disagree?
He certainly changed the English game big time, and for the better. The PL is now a far more entertaining league to watch than it was all those years ago.. The ‘hoof ball’, although not completely gone, has faded and in its place is fast flowing, attacking football. Not every game can be played in such a fashion of course, sometimes a team has to change tactics depending on who they face, and where the game is being played.
During Arsene Wenger’s reign, many managers have been employed, sacked and then employed again at various different clubs in England and abroad yet all the time that’s gone on, our Frenchman has stayed put.
When things were going great, we fans were elated but since the move of stadium and more recently, the lack of spending coupled with odd stuff going on on the pitch, that elation had not only gone tepid, but for some, had reached freezing point..
Out, get out, were the cries. For some, that view remains.
Yet, through all of the good times, the difficult times and of course the terribly bad times, Arsene Wenger has remained dignified, honest and loyal. Not once has he brought the club down, and not once have his words made Arsenal FC a laughing stock! Not even an 8-2 defeat to Utd made him shy away from the media… Unlike that scumbag in West London..
Not everything is right in our eyes and I doubt that will change as seldom is life perfect but right now, Arsenal are in a good place. Especially domestically. The media have little to poke fun at, although I’m sure they’ll hang onto our poor Champions League performances in the first two games and regurgitate them as and when we get knocked out of the competition but as far as the league goes, they don’t have much to be critical of.
In fact their focus has turned to Chelsea which makes a pleasant change. Mourinho is an embarrassment to his club and I’m sure Roman can’t be overly amused with his manager’s antics.
But it wasn’t long ago Mourinho was seen by many to be the ideal man to replace a struggling Arsene Wenger. He’d sort out the defence, make the right signings and turn us into Champions again. Heck, he’d even make sure we had a strong enough squad to really go for the big European prize. Yet here he is right now, struggling, sulking and blaming everyone and anything for his problems and hiding away from the media when Chelsea are in a real mess.
How would you feel if what’s going on at that so called big club in West London, was going on at Arsenal?
I’m sure that a few Arsenal fans would have loved Mourinho to manage our team but thankfully, Stan Kroenke is unlikely to ever be one of them….
Oh, and our Frenchman is doing pretty good right now isn’t he….?
Have a good Monday all, I promise not to be so positive tomorrow…. 😉
Arsene in! Arsene knows best! Well he does, doesn’t he? Well, this week he does. Next week, who knows?
I posted what follows after this post was ‘up’ but I think it may be worth a read, then again…….?
We’ve seen this chavs meltdown with the poisonous Pygmy before during his first incarnation in a very similar way. Team losing, team style pragmatic rather than fluent, loads of tempestuous pressers, etc etc. At the end of his first manifestation I concluded that he was bored and had had enough! He figured his payoff was worth taking and he went. A great deal of laughing and cheering accompanied his dismissal and departure.
Has anything changed this time? No I don’t think so! A leopard cannot change his spots anymore than microman can’t alter his patterns of behaviour, personality or even his charmless soul! I believe he was knocked back by the owner when he demanded new players and got none, he was even more peeved when de Bruyne returned to these shores so expensively and so far so successfully, that must have upset him, a very grazed ego there then. The dropping of Terry, the public admonishing of several high profile players, public criticism is never conducive to team morale! And of course his own ‘special one’ agenda? An enormous payoff? A less public profile? A need for a monastic retreat to search for his inner self? Or is it, he just can’t be arsed anymore! And of course having to play second fiddle to the ‘specialist in failure’!
I’m rambling now! But it’s time he was gone, he has become a pariah and is besmirching the good( ish) name of football. And as an unwanted immigrant he should be repatriated forthwith!
Morning all
Morning again all..
Wavy – I’d rather he stayed for a while and takes his side further down the table and into a real mess…
But as a friend said to me the other day, Mourinho is begging for the sack, so I think your view could be 100% spot on…
We’ve always been proud of Wenger he know that but he’ll get the most moment from Arsenal fans round the world if he delivers the EPL trophy to us this time around. I hope he wont be carried away with all the successes we’ve bee getting of recent. We still need to quality players in the team, A defensive midfielder and an attacker.
Great post, Rico.
Superb.
Morning everyone.
If I had written a post for together, I’d have done exactly this very topic Rico.
Great great post .
And morning again.
Adam, could you please re-post your comment overleaf here. Let’s discuss Mourinho today.
I thought you’d like it Scott/Tai… 😉
I think it’s more about discussing AW and how he holds up regardless of the results/performances. Some of the stuff he tells the fans/media, especially surrounding players being unavailable to be signed etc, really gets on my nerves…
But he never runs off into hiding…. And he never brings the club down….
super post Rico.
A resounding view on someone I consider a visionary… a stubborn it must be added.
Adam- your post on the previous page surmises that man perfectly…
A very nice chav fan I know who never wanted Jose back is loving his demise; I always tell him he is 63y.o but its never too late to support a classier team also based in London… 🙂
Lol Rico.
I’m not suggesting he’s perfect or the only man that can do the job, but yes, he’s been through tough times and never shirked his responsibilities.
Thank goodness Mourinho will never manage the Arsenal.
‘demise’ – should have said fall from grace..
Keep at him GInge!!
scott- ”Thank goodness Mourinho will never manage the Arsenal.”
same can be said about klopp.
BVB fans i know wanted Klopp out even when they were on the verge of winning the ucl; They always supported the team but they found Klopp as someone who put his ego first…
The minute BVB fans I know wanted Lewandowski sold to us when he decided he was not going to extend his contract with them. They could not understand English media slating AW for putting Arsenal first by selling Judas to yanited for £25m when he had been a 1 season wonder…
If klpp had done what AW did and sold Lewandowski, he could have received £40m+ and used the money to replace him… instead he made him walk free…
Scott- a man can only try… :D.
Over 50 years of supporting that team can only taint a man’s soul I keep telling him…; no wonder he has been married for 4 times.. 😛
Wenger is an upright man, plays by the book and respects rules to the later. He works hard for whatever he gets. Such men end on a high.
Mourinho? Completely opposite.
Morning all, I suppose we are lucky to have him Rico, when you see what goes on at other clubs, it could be just that Stability will finally win through and help us lift that trophy that has alluded for so long.
I still remember the famous “Arsene who” headline and the first ten years of his tenure was simply something that the modern game had not seen before, brilliant purchases with the help of David dein, but the last 9 years have truly tested us as loyal supporters of the club, although we will never see the likes of those first 10 years again, maybe he,s last 2 or 4 years will bring just rewards, feelings are, with a few acquisitions he can bow out, where he belongs, At the top.
He certainly is stubborn Ts, that’s one of his major flaws…
Agree Scott, he’s far from perfect but he’s sure better than Mourinho….. I think.. lol
Dublin, perhaps only when looking at other clubs though…. 😉
Just think how much better we’d be right now if he’d spent a bit more money and changed the style of football before this season….
I sure hope he can win us the PL before he goes….
I Can,t see mourinho walking any time soon,he,s smart enough to know he,s onto a big pay day if Roman sacks him, besides where else can he go, he,s burned his bridges in Spain, Italy and Pep has the top job in Germany, where else can he manage at the top. I feel it,s all downhill after Chelsea, and maybe Mourinho does too.
Good Morning Lovelies and Hunkies.
What a great AW testament you have written Rico. I liked.
now why didn’t you mention that Danny De Vito (Pleat) was employed and sacked 3 TIMES by the spuds during the last twenty years????
Morning Rico and all. Cheers TS. I would have re-posted it but am sitting in a Soho cafe with limited battery life. 🙂
Good post Rico.
try Duracell Adam. It lasts longer 😛
Just hope England don’t employ him Dublin… 😉
Morning Adam. Living the high life this morning? 😉
Dev. Fading fast now 🙂
Devil, seems Mourinho has simply made me appreciate AW a little more…lol
Rico. Japanese noodles rule 🙂
Could you repost my earlier tripe?
Lol Dev. Pleat is a ‘gooner’ in disguise.
Dg- Good points.
I would say Mourinho had one outlet; which was Psg but rumours are Jose thinks AW might have tarnished him to Al-Khelaifi. If I was to hazard a guess, i would say Naseer made up his own mind and chose carlito and Deschamp for obvious reasons…
Another safe option for him will be to replace Old Roy at Wembley HQ.
We all know the media bandits will love him as Englands manager leading to the world cup….; will Neville stay though?
Saying all of that, I think Jose will go back and replace Munchini at Inter as they now have a new sugar daddy…
If all fails he will sound out for the Portugal national team job before CR07 retires…
Arsenal have been charged over the Chambers transfer… Odd one…
Already on to it Adam… lol
Adam’s earlier comment….
The Chelsea stuff is great isn’t it? To me it confirms what I have always thought in that you can be very good at something yet still be an idiot and a fool. He has been a successful manager and has found himself in the right place at the right time but has believed his own hype for years now. His obvious obsession with Wenger, fuelled by the scumbag press in this country who have been blowing smoke up his arse for years, is now laid bare for all to see.
Wenger’s words before the Everton game and subsequently included a pointed reference to humility, a term that is completely unknown to that revolting craphead Mourinho. Once you lose perspective and actually believe you are the dogs bollox then a fall won’t be far away. His pathetic little plot to try and humiliate Arsene after the Charity Shield with the handshake stuff told me that he was actually more interested in bringing the weight of his supposed superiority down upon our club in trying to show the world Mourinho, the gracious loser. Yeah right. Wenger saw through it and we saw through it, but it was only the usual morons who accused Wenger of snubbing the Portuguese knob. It has become completely out of control and quite sick and his press friends are now distancing themselves from him. Except for that gas-meter thief Danny Murphy who trotted out the “We all love him” crap again on MOTD. We don’t. We effing detest him because he is a total and absolute prick of the highest order.
Everything that is coming down on him, he deserves fully. His midweek quotes about the referee being weak and naive exposed him for the stupid, little childish pratt he really is and I bet that quite a few of his players think so too. The fact that, when Wenger used those terms to describe Mike Dean, he was right, has completely eluded him as he sees the world through the prism of his own egotistical greatness and arrogance.
Personally I hope that his fall from grace and his subsequent disintegration take place over a long time and in the public eye. I want Chelsea to stick with him for a decent while yet.
Devil, his first sacking, Pleat that is, was for non-footballing reasons! All to do with the balls though!
Happy days!
I would add, for all his faults sexual or otherwise I’ve always quite liked Pleat, he talks a lot of sense even if his views are skewed by High Road bias!
lol wavy.
Pleat is not quite Portillo though…
Well said Adam…
Tsgh, I was too late back to the topic last night, The stat I got at the start of the season was, The last 5 winners of the premier league have each kicked off their season on a Monday night, and City started this seasons campaign on a Monday night. I just thought it was an interesting stat at the time. I think in fairness, you added to that by saying the last 10 winners have not kicked off at 3 o clock on a Saturday on the opening day of the season, an incredible stat in fairness, but heh, their there to be broken.
Good Morning to The Lady of the House and all fellow Gooners in residence.
WOW! Two great posts on the same day; one from Rico and the other Adam’s re-post.
Ginge – Sorry, but I must differ with you. Jose may have had his demise or fall from the top of the heap; call it what you will, but not a fall from grace. I seriously doubt that Maureen Yo, the Petulant Portuguese Pygmy, Malignant Dwarf, call him what you will, has ever found himself in a state of grace.
We may call Arsene stubborn, parsimonious, misguided, etc., but he is the antithesis of Jose Mourinho. Arsene has very rarely been less than a gentleman or brought himself or our club into disrepute. Unlike Mourinho, who does it with amazing regularity.
The last time Arsene did do it, was his shoving match with, of course, one petulant and viperous Jose Mourinho. I’ll keep Arsene thank you very much.
Viperous is a lovely word. Nicely done CG. 🙂
Home now, but I believe I saw Daniel Craig in Wardour Street. Not 100% but I think so.
Sometimes, and it’s most times these days, it appears that those based in London, or England at least, do strongly believe those of us who are not so privileged don’t have any reason supporting Arsenal.
And Adam clearly leads this charge.
Morning Cg..
I am quite envious Adam if it was him him, I think I’d have made sure… 😉
Tai. Good afternoon. You’ll need to run that one past me again.
I couldn’t guarantee if Rico. He was driving an X-5 and had a beanie hat on. His head barely cleared the wheel so I could only see him as he nearly ran me down. 🙂
No need Adam. Once is good or bad enough…walk back, pick the bits and reflect…I never shout just to hear the sound of my voice.
Me too Tai? Not sure what you mean by your last….
You should have stepped off the pavement Adam, not far enough to cause harm of course, but close enough for him to have to to stop… 😉
Sorry Rico, but he is so small I doubt he saw me. 🙂
Tai. I really don’t get this. Are you accusing me of something or not? Or have I just got the wrong end of the stick here?
Rico…please step out of this. It’s between me and Adam…he knows why and I’ll tell him when he gets there.
Gets where?
🙂 Adam… Very ‘shortist’.. lol
Tai, I won’t. I really don’t see where you are going with this….
Ok…Adam…check back comments on today’s post. I was the one who begged you to re-post your comment overleaf…
But evidently because you believe I didn’t know what I was talking about, you responded to Ts instead…yeah because he should know.
Ts, please don’t get me wrong.
Adam, please tell me why.
From the outside, I think you’ve got things totally wrong Tai. It’s very easy to miss peoples comments, especially when on a mobile phone and with little battery life..
All seems rather odd to me….
Tai. I posted on yesterday’s HH just before I went out this morning. I posted on my iPad. When I got to my meeting I was glancing through today’s stuff and came across TS saying that he agreed with me. My battery was running very low and I just didn’t scroll down far enough to see your comment. I made a few glib posts from a Japanese restaurant but didn’t acknowledge your comment. I meant absolutely no insult and find it very hard to understand why you have taken it that way. Now I am home and back on the iPad I have begun posting again. If you felt that I had ignored you and construed that it is because I feel you have no business supporting Arsenal then I apologise for the misunderstanding. Rico and anyone who knows me on here will tell you that I am not the man you accuse me of being.
If it matters to you I would add that I believe you are a great Arsenal supporter and that your views bring nothing but good to this forum. I will also add that I am hurt that you should put 1 and 1 together and make 3 where I am portrayed in your comments as some sort of Arsenal supporting bigot.
I am not that person.
Okay Adam…
I take it back.
If I picked on you that’s because I valued your opinion and definitely as a person.
Being a non London born supporter, I’ve not found any of the London born Gooners to disregard or ignore my views and certainly not Adam Tai…
Rico…I got the reaction I expected from Adam…and there’s nothing odd in my reaction. It was absolutely important to me to know certain things, especially on HH.
Tai – I merely thought your accusation was unjust..
But shall we move on…..
Sure we’re already moving on, on my front, that is.
Cg- i have to concur there… re. Jose
‘On my front, that is’ – What is that supposed to mean?
lol Tai- you know its all copy and paste from me… 😛
Rico…I meant I’ve already moved on.
Ts…I enjoy all of it even if you copied from me and pasted anywhere. Lol.
😀 tai
Ok Tai….
Ts, did you mention copy and paste?? You know I am the expert in that field… 😉
Catch up in a bit, off out for a walk…
Rico- Copying and pasting from the encyclopedia of football- metro and goal.com is highly regarded and can’t be frowned upon; I am sure Dev will confirm all UEFA coaches have to refer to those fountain of footballing wisdom for their exams… 🙂
An Arsene Ts… 😉
Mourinho will get £30m if he’s sacked according to reports…
Exactly why Roman should stick with him, and just how stupid is that kind of deal… Hideous!
Adam insulting bloggers….?
That’s an outrageous slur….
Adam only insults people who deserve it…
I can vouch for that because he insults me all the time, and I thoroughly deserve it, being, as I am, so uncouth and common… 🙂
If Wenger wins the EPL, I wonder if all those herberts on Le Grove will apologise for all the torrents of insults they’ve rained down on his head?
I doubt it Kev.. ‘Wenger Out’ is etched on a few of the fans brains over there…
Hiya Rico…
£27/£30 million to sack Mourinho eh?
Wasn’t that negotiated by some Super Agent, the same guy who represents Ronaldo?
And what is the difference between an Agent and a Super Agent???
Could it be that an Agent is a crook,
and a Super Agent is a big crook?
It’s all so confusing…
Kev- how much do you think super agent Mendes will get?
30 m to get rid of Mourinho seems like a bargin to me
Hi Kev, I expect so, crazy eh….
No Joe, let him stay there and tog for a while yet…..
Evening Rico and the house
Good read
We will see if the FA have the balls and give the scumbag what he deserves
Would that be an 8 or a 12 tog ?
I had a very energetic day went to the Dublin city for the marathon clapped some runners then went for food. ?
Ha ha Joe, I’ve no idea… In fact I can’t even remember what I meant to write….
Evening Mg…
The man does that me he gets me angry every time he opens his mouth
To me….
Just laugh, that’s all he’s worth….
I’m off for the day… Night all…
Too true rico, couldn’t be prouder myself !
In 1996 he came, he saw, he conquered, replaced beer with water and kebabs with broccoli, pure genius, if I was a woman I’d marry him tomorrow.
tsgh, I thought it was us winning the Community Shield in August not the opening day 3 o’clock kick off that put the mockers on us this season, nobody likes a lazy chef lol !
Kev, dignity and respect, don’t think that’s too much to ask for, I got your back if Adam gets ugly mate !
Thanks Mick, I knew when the going got tough, that I could rely on you….
Ginge, that’s him, Mendes, Super Parasite more like….
There’s some Israeli geezer as well, whose a Super Ponce, but his name escapes me…
It’ll be interesting to see the team tomorrow and how many youngsters Wenger will pick in the squad?
With Arteta and Ramsey injured, that’ll be two more youngsters into the team I reckon.
Just for you Devil, to the tune of Day dream Believer……..Cheer up David Pleat, what can it mean, to a curb crawling pervert and a shit football team !!!
Like I said Kev, I’ll be right behind ya lol.
Real bad luck for Rambo, goes 20 odd games for club and country without scoring, then goes on to score 2 in 2 games and does his hamstring…..law of the sod !
Kev, if you are truly uncouth, then what am I?
Actually, don’t answer that 🙂
Tai, as an Aussie….so, as far removed from London as you could imagine….and having met Adam, I can assure you he’s a gentleman.
Morning all.
Micko, on Aaron-let’s just hope it really is an injury that keeps him it for just a few weeks for a change.
Scott. I wouldn’t go that far 🙂
But thanks anyway. 🙂
I still don’t really know what it was all about.
What are you Scott?
Er……
You are a……….
Table tennis player…. 🙂
Night All
Adam, I’m positive it was a simple misunderstanding.
Kev, I’m yet to be classified lol
Wakey wakey, morning all…
Morning Rico, Adam and all…
Kev were you referring to Pini Zahavi?
Rick/Kev- Do you gents know why Isaac has not played for Hull this month?
Morning Ts..
Re Hayden, apparently he’s set to return to Arsenal…
Morning guys.
Thanks Rico
FFS Adam….
I can vouch for Scott….
Morning all?
Yawn!
Brudder. What have I done now? 🙂
Or what haven’t I done?
I was wondering where you’ve been Lee. Either still ill with man flu, or in the sunshine… 😉
Anyone watching Thierry on SS’s?
‘Who’s the best player you have ever played with? he was asked..
Within less than a second he replied ‘Dennis Bergkamp’….
Oops. Morning Rico and all.
Morning Adam.
I haven’t the foggiest Brudder.
The man flu was tough, but I’m back now…..
Do you think Arsene will add player(s) in January?
Will he risk unbalancing the squad or go with some new drive?
Or will Jack, Stan’s boy and Rosickly be like new signings?
Thierry never played with Gus though…..
Brudder. I think he will try for Payet or the Polish bloke from Sevilla, both excellent players.
Glad you are back and feeling well.
Sure hope he does, a couple of quality players could see us home…
New post up now…