It’s ending in jeers for Arsène Wenger as his relationship with the club he began managing in 1996 hits rock bottom. In those twenty two years he has given Arsenal fans like me some glorious highs but many more gruesome lows.
Nothing has been quite as bad as Sunday’s capitulation in the final of the Carabao Cup. It wasn’t just that Arsenal lost 3-0 to Manchester City, more the fact the players were indifferent to the outcome.
In the aftermath Wenger did what he does best, blamed the officials and tried to have us believe his boys were robbed. Mais non, Arsène, it’s the fans who were robbed, dispossessed of hard earned cash out of misguided loyalty to eleven overpaid and underperforming players, who, incidentally, were at it again last night, once more losing 3-0 to City, this time in the Premier League, the boos at the final whistle echoing around a half-empty Emirates stadium.
It’s been said many times in recent years that Wenger is a
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