Rockape wrote:LMAO wrote:Yup. Wenger failed to maintain a balance of grace and grit. He opted for an idealism and took it to the extreme, which cost us dearly.
Absolutely right! The core of steel he inherited were replaced slowly with lightweights ( mentally and physically). Sometimes you need to win the physical battle to have the chance to win the football battle.
He inherited steel and grit then created the invincibles with practically a new squad so that doesn't ring true to me.
Truth of the matter is, the soft narrative was established and then it became fine to kick shit out of us because we were the opposite of the GHEL mentality.
The 50th game was a display of corruption in football within these shores. They kicked lumps out of us for the whole game and won by the faintest of touches to Rooney who fell down in the area and got his penalty.
We've seen ljungberg pulled down by Rio when clean through, no red card.
Some kid destroy jacks ankle with a ridiculousoly late tackle and not get a second yellow, let alone being sent off for that challenge.
Battle of old Trafford when van nistelrooy missed that penalty. Half our team suspended while they got 1 or 2 suspensions. Watch that game and van nistelrooy stamping on keowns foot or Neville punching someone in the face in a 22 man brawl.
Diabys career destroyed
Eduardos career in england finished
Ramsey missed 2 years of his career
Reyes absolutely kicked to f**k out of the league by multiple teams
As soon as we reacted, we got suspended. Anyone else goes overboard on us and it was all "they're just soft. They've got no control".
Rooney elbowing people blatantly but no ban.
Shearer kicking a man in the head before the euros, no ban.
4-4 Newcastle at least 1 phantom penalty against us. Diaby sent off after a Joey Barton assault. Kevin Nolan patted on the back by Phil Dowd after he headlocked szczesny and threw him to the ground after the 2nd goal.
Roy Keane literally writing in his book about wanting to end careers, and he's celebrated.
Scholes routinely destroying people with reckless tackles while commentators chuckle because it was a meme.
f**k the FA and all the Pussyholes that couldn't beat us squarely so resorted to kicking shit out of us to gain an advantage and all the refs that facilitated it.
A lot of people still can't admit it, but we were blatantly targeted becuase our football was too dominant in an era where man u were supposed to be unrivalled. They just couldn't stand a foreign manager and foreign players destroying their man u GHEL narrative and nothing else that's said can change those facts.
