There are more idiots with pens though. I normally wouldn’t take up issue with anyone who writes for the Daily Mail. But this guy here has slagged my players

By: Ole Gunner

The criticism of Arsene Wenger has gone too far. It’s about time this nonsense stopped.

Take this snippet from Kevin McCarra in the Guardian implying that Wenger is obstinate to the point of deafness or even stupidity:

“An inquiry about the shortage of firepower is met with the response that Nicklas Bendtner, 20, will be better next season. Avram Grant, Rafael Benítez and even Sir Alex Ferguson would hesitate to speak in such fashion.”

But what lack of firepower is McCarra talking about? The fact still remains that Arsenals strikers; Adebayor, Van Persie, Bendtner, Eduardo and Walcott have scored more goals than any strike force in the league except Tottenham’s. 56 goals from the Arsenal frontmen. United’s Tevez, Rooney and Saha have 39, Chelsea’s Drogba, Sheva, Pizarro, Kalou, and Anelka have 35. Even though Van Persie and Eduardo have missed significant portions of the season to injury.

Arsenal have scored more goals than every team in the league except a Ronaldo-propelled Manchester United. What Firepower is this moron talking about?

McMoron went ahead to write:

As Wenger will know, the true argument is that Arsenal need to be able to practise squad rotation so that key figures do not tire so noticeably.

Oh Jeeze, not the silly squad rotation argument again!! So noticeably tired are Arsenal that they are dominating games, outrunning their opposition in midfield and scoring late goals.

The Guardian and Muck-Curry have been at the forefront of anti-Benitez, anti-rotation stuff all season.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2259381,00.html Now rotation is the best thing since the holy grail!

But do these fools ever even consider the facts? Every member of the Arsenal squad has missed at least 2 games to injury this season. If Wenger didn’t rotate, how did Arsenal get to be the team in Europe that has played the most games this season?

Can somebody explain this to me? Here are statistics about the number of players that have featured for top clubs this season-

Arsenal-29
Manchester United-29
Chelsea-27
Liverpool-27
Inter-28
Barcelona-24
Lyon-27
Bayern Munich-22
Real Madrid-23

Manchester United that is trumpeted by the media as that great paragon of rotation have players with the following number of appearances this season:

Ferdinand-43
Vidic-41
Carrick-42
Evra-41
Brown-44
Ronaldo-41

Arsenal’s most featured players are:

Clichy-44
Fabregas-42
Adebayor-44
Flamini-40
Hleb-40

SOURCE: soccerbase.com

Despite the fact that Arsenal have played 3 games (at least) more than United this season (Carling Cup games)!

Talking of which; how come nobody mentions that Arsenal teams consisting of second-stringers have won results against, Spurs (1-1 at home), Blackburn, Slavia Prague, Staeua Bucharest, Newcastle in the Champions League and domestic cups?

It’s also patently false that Arsenal have a smaller squad than is needed to win the title. Some stats that negate that oft-repeated bit of crap:

Squad size of Teams leading across Europe:

United: 28-but 2 players were added 3 weeks ago who haven’t featured.

Lyon-26
Bayern Munich-24
Inter-27
Real Madrid-25
Porto-27
PSV-26

Arsenal-28

Source: Club Websites

Squad size of Premiership winning teams since 2004:

2007-United-29
2006-Chesea-27
2005-Chelsea-30
2004-Arsenal-22

Source: ESPN

There are more idiots with pens though. I normally wouldn’t take up issue with anyone who writes for the Daily Mail. But this guy here has slagged my players. I won’t link to his column but his name’s Neil Ashton. He said Bendtner, Eboue and Senderos are not good enough to get into the Manchester United team. Oh really? The same Manchester United team that has on its books such illustrious players as O’Shea, Fletcher, Simpson, Eagles, Dong, none of which would make the Arsenal squad.

Jose Mourinho now runs the British media. They’re taking talking points from him. The Daily Mail guy actually quoted Moaninho’s jealous jibe about Arsene not facing pressure at Arsenal, a bid for Arsene’s job by the way. The Daily Mail guy I am sorry to say goes to cocktail parties and introduces himself as a journalist. Isn’t impersonation a crime?

This is why Newspapers are dying.