Have Spurs passed their infection to their North London rivals?
It has taken Arsenal eleven games to suffer as many league defeats as they did in the entire 2007/08 campaign, and their relatively easy opening fixtures will get trickier this month with ties against Manchester Utd, Aston Villa and Chelsea.
Rumours of bust-ups, problems with leadership and a general lack of spirit are currently causes of concern, but will they be problematic enough for Professor Wenger to achieve his first ever finish outside the top four? Votes, comments and scaremongering below, please.
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2 responses so far
1 Odal // Nov 3, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It’s way early to tell. Even though I felt like suicidebombing my local after the defeat vs. Spurs (yes, defeat), and the Stoke-result made me gag, there’s still only 6 pts. in it.
Far worse than my Arsenal finishing outside the top 4, is the thought that the league has become so boring that it’s now considered almost impossible for Chelsea and ManU to drop points in the remaining 25-something games.
If that’s the case - if the PL is that stale and boring, I don’t really care where we finish up, because then I’m tossing my remaining Arsenal-shirts to begin following the NFL alone - a league that constantly does new things to make the game more fair to all parties, and make it more entertaining.
Salary Caps? Mark my words - it’ll be the solution to the financial madness that is modern football - but FIFA/UEFA will bollocks it up for everyone. The NFL makes tons of money for owners *and* players, while maintaining a tournament that’s damned entertaining, and where you don’t see the same teams dominate year after year.
As much as I hate the thought of the US teaching us europeans anything about sports, they do have a marketable and entertaining way of playing their pro football.
2 Pryde // Nov 3, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The reason why Arsenal never tend to make real competition in anything it enters is that they dont set to attain targets when the season begins.
For some one as wise as Mr Wenger he should have an a vogue idea of what he wants his team to achieve in a season and should set realistic targets.
At the moment Arsenal is just playing every games as it comes whether its the preimership nor the champions league, this system is confusing as players get confused about what they are really set out to achieve. This was the very reason why players like Hleb and Thiery Henry left the club. Its not that the club does not have ambition but its that the club does not express what it wants to achieve and if this is not adressed it wont suprise if other high profile players leave i.e. Fabregas, Adebayor, Toure etc