SchlandGooner wrote:Zedie wrote:Quite a few people including Gooney have been going on about how shite AWs tactics are after 1 very poor game. I asked a simple question, ie do they think its been pure luck that AW has steered AFC to 1st place after 22 games.
It was not just one poor game this season and if you look unbiased back we were really lucky in a lot of the matches to win three points and played piss poor a lot of times. There is a really straight forward sentence you often read in german commentary sections about this Arsenal season on several football websites.
Let me try to translate it:
"If Arsenal win the title it's not cause of Wenger it's despite Wenger."
Its funny.
If chelsea close out a 1-0 lead, its all resilient this, battling that.
If man u do it, its all you cant keep them down for long, hard fought win like champions
If city do it, its the stuff of champions in the making
The media dont even like to admit when lpool are out of title races before they have begun.
When arsenal win ugly or defend a lead or battle for a draw, its the beginning of the end EVERY time.
Its a sentiment that flows through a part of the fanbase and infiltrates the media, who then print what they think the masses want to hear.
Those fans pick up on it and then a label is born.
arsenal dont like it up em
Arsenal have a soft centre
Arsenal cant defend
Zonal marking
If you had never watched football but read the sports pages, we would surely be a newcastle or a lpool the way they go on.
im also pretty sure that all of the german experts tip bayern to win the BL every year without fail, although to be fair theyve only had a maximum 50% chance of getting it wrong In recent times.
Like ive said, theres only 1 or 2 pundits that arent jaded by bias and even then no one knows how things will turn out.
im sure there are whole generations of middle aged lpool fans that still cant get over how a CL dominating machine turned into a struggling relic.