ZimGooners

When I heard that the honorable Arsene Wenger had been charged again I almost fell off my proverbial chair. The circus at Soho square is back in town. Now I am not privy to what happened between Le Boss and the ref but I am sure it wasnt anything handbags and all that. The decision was as close to being shyte without stepping on it as you can get. And if we start saying that if a manager expresses his reservations about a decisions then we throw the book at him then where are we going to next. If the FA should fix anything it should be the officiating which seems to be getting worse by the second. Where is the damned technology. Arsene was aggravated by something. He just doesnt go about questioning decisions. The FA should look at that and fix the reason why managers always have something to complain about. It is about time they took responsibility.

We already knew Arsenal could play without Thierry Henry. We know the young players are up to scratch. And we know that version three of Arsenal will be the best of the lot. What we didnt know was: 1. Flamini is one of the most underrated box to box players in the game 2. Gilberto should be Arsenal captain 3. Adebayor is a brilliant player who will do better than Henry as a lone striker Does this mean we should sell Henry? No. It just means we can afford to sell him and not think the world has ended.

The Sun had the nerve to say that Arsenal have lost the high ground when it comes to the style of football played. Aren't the same ones who always keep telling Arsenal to play functional and ugly football at times? And now that we finally do that we are told that we are selling out? Funny! We went there and we knew that a draw would take us through. And Porto knew the same. A draw for both teams and they are both through. What do you expect them to do? Have a kick-about like a bunch of larkies on a Sunday afternoon and get shafted by a weird goal from some non-descript ponce from some corner of the rat-infested hell in no particular place. We knew the score that is our mates over at Porto and err... ourselves right? CSKA was leading and we needed a draw. Leave us alone.

I have been one of the few critics of Titi in the last couple of months. Myles Palmer in his Arsenal Review( www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk ) calls it narcissism and I can't say I disagree with him. But the reason why that has happened has been because of Arsenal. They have made the monster that is Thierry Henry. But unprecedented was the fact that Arsene will sit Thierry down to tell him what is expected of him. That is the man does not know what is expected of him. He is a bit errant. But I do not think he cannot be cut back. I think this is the pivotal point and dropping Henry is going to make him realise that he has to put the interests of the team ahead of his own and I think him concentrating on the lads more than himself or joking about with the opposition captain is one way of doing it. When the team is out there we dont care that you are mates with blokes from the other teams. During the match you are ours and they are the enemy. We do not think you should slice them in half ...