“They [the Board] let me do what I want to do,”

This isnt a dig at Wenger as he is a hero of mine, i admire him, his footballing philosophy and i will be forever grateful for what he has done for Arsenal but could that statement show where we are going wrong?

For many years now Arsene Wenger has done as he has pleased, and he has done it with the interests of the club at heart from his perspective. But maybe it time for the board to say, ‘come on Arsene, we really need to win something this year. Are you 100% confident this team can win something?’. I don’t think he would say yes.

Wenger is a very very clever man, he is astute, faithful and always has the interests of the club at heart as he would not make a club suffer for the sake of his pride. He needs to spend in January to win something and i wonder if someone such as Fiszman has had a quiet word with him, after all, his money is in the club and football is a results business. 5 defeats by the 20th December is not really on for a club of this stature.

I do not for one minute think that Wenger will ever be sacked by the club, the same scenario as Alex Ferguson is in, but i really do think that a little word with Wenger could just persuade him to buy because he already knows some fans support is starting to wane, he has said about it,

“we want our fans and everyone to contribute”

A win on Sunday would undoubtedly win some fans support back, it would put us back in the mix because (Ive said it before and i’ll say it again), with everything that has gone on this season, i.e. the ‘top 4′ being beaten fairly regularly, i would not write Arsenal off winning it. Yet.

The latest transfer news seems to be typically ‘Wengerish’ though, Boulogne defender Steven Mouyokolo has been linked to us in a 4 million pound deal, i have to say ive never heard of this bloke before but his team are sitting second in the French league so he and his defence must be doing something right.

I think what we need above all is some experienced winners in the side, im on about players that have won domestic leagues and cups, and quite a lot of them at that. Not many players have that at the club and i think once you have won something you want it more than someone who has not won something, once bitten, twice as deadly as the saying goes.

Arsenal v Roma

Anyway, onto the main news i suppose, we drew Roma in the Champions League.

One of the best draws there in my opinion, their record in England is nothing short of abysmal and our record in Italy is nothing short of fantastic. Some of our recent results are beating Roma 3-0 at the Stadio Olimpico, beating Inter 5-1 at the San Siro and that memorable 2-0 win over AC Milan. People will say, ‘Oh, i wish we would have drawn Panathinaikos‘, but in my opinion that would be a far tougher game as they are lesser opposition. Funnily enough, thats the way Arsenal operate.

There is a possiblility that all English clubs could be out by the quarter finals if something goes wrong, there are some monster draws and for the first time, Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool are having a dose of what we regually have, a bloody tough draw.

Inter Milan v Manchester United

Real Madrid v Liverpool

Chelsea v Juventus

They are going to be some damn good games, and i can see two of the four English clubs going out, we have the best draw out the lot so we should be going through.

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Until next time, have a great day and don’t spend too much money on pointless Christmas presents, we are in a recession and the government are……. don’t get me started on this!

T’ra