A.C.E. Wenger. Please stay; the final chance to move from Arsenal has arrived but we want you to stay and you want to stay. Ignore the fools that say you haven't won any trophies for five years; ignore the plastic gooners that say you're past it or x-y-z is your fault. You're easily the most successful manager in the history of Arsenal; you're the club's longest-serving manager with an incredible record that speaks for itself (re longest serving, in the English Premier League only you - and some Alejandro guy at Manchington Rovers - have more than 8 seasons in charge of an Premier League club).
In your first 9 seasons you had won the League 3 times (runner-up 5 times!) and won the F.A, Cup 4 times (runner-up once): NO other manager has a better record and to put icing on that cake there was a double-double and the cherry on top came in 2004 you became the only manager in 115 years of English top-flight football to go through the entire season without defeat, one of the top sporting moments of the decade. That unbeaten run saw Arsenal bag another record: that of the longest run of unbeaten League matches: 49. And finally, just for those nay-sayers, the average league finishing position for the period 1996/97 season to the present, i.e. since Arsene arrived, is 2nd (actually 2.4)...
Great article this weekend by Amy Lawrence at the Guardian.
3 comments:
Might be fun for Arsenal if they have to score six each week to win as they did on Saturday in Poland winning 6-5!.
See you in a couple of weeks, thanks for the comment.
I think a bit of pressure to actaully score instead of the 20-and-in that they play could be beneficial! I'm hoping Laurent Koscielny saw last year's defence and goalie mistakes at vital times in vital games and so is trying to get his own own goals in before the season starts :-)
...but not his red cards..D'oh!!
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