theHotHead wrote:Yes Graham played boring football, but that was the era, you cannot knock him for that. I think many of us were glad for the bung scandal because we turned stale - but the club were never going to get rid of him otherwise.
Wenger inherited a defence of great players but demotivated, he invigorated the club and created sexy football in a league where people said you can't play like that and win. It was a remarkable achievement. There is no way you can knock Graham's achievements though and lets not forget, was it 18 goals conceded and one lost game in the 90/91 season. We scored plenty of goals in the first half of Graham's reign.
I don't think Graham played boring football at all.
Merson, Davis, Thomas, Rocky, Limpar were all in the 90-91 squad where we won the league by 7 points, scored 74 goals, only lost once (to a flukey Chelsea goal) and only conceded 18. a +56 goal difference.
Our defence was so good that we kept 24 clean sheets - and so other teams just found it very difficult to score against us. The matches might have been considered boring for opposing fans because they barely got a sniff at our goal all season.
Then, of course, Grahams first title. THE most exciting culmination to a season in history.
I think, generally nder Graham our football going forward, especially when Wright arrived, was excellent and our defence was simply sublime.
I woudl take Graham's brand of football over Wengers any day.