Mon 4 Dec 06
Gunner Propagandist Misfires
Four For Two has published in its December 2006 edition what is easily the most foolish piece of armchair football analysis in print:
Arsene Wenger doesn’t hate English players, he has given many of them their chance at Arsenal, only for them to throw it back in his face, or not reach the required standard.
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When you look at the attitude of the young Arsenal players like Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Eboue and Cesc Fabregas, added to the experience of Thierry Henry, Gilberto Silva and Jens Lehmann, you realise why Wenger wants these people at Arsenal. Nationality is not the issue, attitude is.
And thanks to their poor attitude, the English players who toil at the other nineteen Premiership clubs have yet to realize their dreams of clinching the Premiership title, claiming the FA Cup or the Carling Cup, or reveling in a Champions League victory.
Because at the Emirates they don’t judge a man by his passport, just his esprit de corp… and his pronunciation of it.
Paul Canniff
