Case of sour grapes for Wenger?
There are many things you can admire about Arsène Wenger, one of the best managers to grace the Premier League, but there are also many reasons not to, as many will point out that the Arsenal boss is a bad loser. More than a bad loser.
Arsenal were the better team on the day, but Wenger’s latest claims of cheating, accusing a certain player as someone ‘who plays only to make fouls’ and anti-football were just bitter and wrong.
Although he doesn’t admit it, the player who Wenger has described as someone who only fouls is Darren Fletcher. The Frenchman believes that the Scot should have got a yellow card, and maybe he did deserve one, but is it too little a thing to make a deal out of.
Just days after Eduardo’s dive in the Champions League where the Croatian was charged, harshly, Emmanuel Eboue, for some reason, decided that he should dive to earn a free kick, picking the worst possible time to do this. Patric Evra was no way near him and the intention for Eboue was to earn a free kick.
“I think it is difficult with diving,” he said. “Sometimes players dive to escape being hit. It’s not always necessarily diving because you want to dive. Sometimes it’s a way of getting out of the way. The borderline between being sensible, being shrewd or being a cheat is very slim so, in some cases, to assess which is which is very difficult.”
In some cases, it is difficult to assess diving. In Eduardo’s case, after that horrific injury and some contact from the goalkeeper, yes, it is difficult to assess. But for Eboue, it was not. As he lying on the ground, his arms were outstretched to the referee asking why he hadn’t been awarded a free kick.
It looks like a case of sour grapes for Wenger. Great manager but a bad loser. He did not deserve to be sent off in the final seconds of the game but claims of ‘anti football’ and a player ‘who plays only to make fouls’ were just unprofessional.
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show me a good loser. I dare ya. Goes against all competitive spirits. A good loser is the equivalent to a fanny.
Actually Vanster, I agree with the article. Wenger is a bad loser. Show you a good loser? Well, Tony Mowbray for one when his Celtic team lost against Arsenal. He accepted the defeat and despite the dive did not blame it on that. The SFA took action not him. He was a good loser.
It’s amazing how many people miss or don’t want to get the point that Wenger is trying to make. It’s about the way that disciplinary penalties are handed out. Like our judiciary: should a man that rapes get 5 years as does a man that commits a crime in the financial world.He does see diving as a problem and I am sure that he Eduardo and Eboue have had words, but he sees the potential injuring of players as worse than diving. He sees penalties being handed down for the soft option but when players consistently perpetrate fouls to prevent football it is accepted as the only way to play against him.
Seems you idiots dont have anything better to write about. As for the comments well say no more….had more sense from a 5 year old.
fergie’s certainly a better loser. he kicked his own player(beckam) with a shoe after a loss to arsenal a few years back.
I’m an Arsenal fan – and this is reasonably balanced.
I think Wenger should worry less about the refs and more as to why we threw the game away. Of course Fletcher should have had a yellow – it was a clear pen. But that wasnt why we lost.
I would like to hear from Diaby – what was he thinking? Anything?
What do the Man Utd “fans” have to say about the discusting chanting to Wenger on Saturday?
It was vile and discracefull. It wasn’t just a minority either – it was tens of thousands.
Man U are the ones who have to worry. We won the game for you, you twits.
i have something to say on the disgusting chants of the mancs .
come to the emirates and get ready to be reminded of munich . for the whole game .
but as this is your best piece of history i take it you wont mind !
I have been a season ticket holder at Arsenal for 35 years. I also travel to most away games especially Old Trafford. Whilst I know some elements of Leeds and Liverpool fans sing songs with references to Munich, I have NEVER heard such songs sung by Arsenal fans either home or away. As for your comment ‘come to the Emirates and get ready to be reminded of Munich. for the whole game’ shows that you have never actually attended an Arsenal v Man U game at the Emirates. Your comments are just a very poor attempt to justify the vile behaviour of, not just one or two idiots, but the majority of your own fans. I am absolutely disgusted by this chant and am amazed that a club like Man Utd with it’s history and traditions turn a blind eye year after year without at least trying to address the situation. However, my main beef is with the media who sit in the stands listening to this vile chant every season and do nothing for fear of their newspaper being branded ‘anti Man U’. Shame on all of you.
Song was booked for his first foul. In the first half alone we most have had four or five free kicks about 40 yards out – just before the final third, that reeked of a cheats gameplan. If Fletcher had been booked for the cast iron penalty (that Fergie lied about after the game) he would not have been able to continue snuffing out our possession-based dominance by stopping the game with deliberate fouls. Diaby was booked for persistent fouling FFS. Despite the blatant and scandalous bias of the referee (which on this occasion had nothing to do with crowd pressure – only time I heard anything from Prawnville’s denizens was when they sung one of their classic child abuse based ditties around the final whistle) the only thing that stopped Arsenal winning was two spectacularly bizarre individual errors. ManYoo were very very lucky on that level of performance we will easily finish above them.
Been to every man utd arsenal match at either highbury or the grove for the last 8 years NOT ONCE have I or any of my mates heard any Munich-related song, so whoever stated that is talking balls. Been to OT twice and heard the Wenger chants sung by a huge proportion of the home support both times. If all other clubs started singing songs about allegations made against SAF in south Africa a few years back you can be sure that something would be done about it, and yet media refuse to mention let alone condemn the wenger songs. Sickening.
I think Wenger has a point. Refs should come down harder on violent play. But the timing of his comment is unfortunate as it makes him seem a bad loser (which he probably is). But Ferguson is also a bad loser. Maybe it’s even a prerequisite to become a top manager.
I am an Arsenal fan to my boots but we gifted the three points to Manu. We were better for sure throughout the whole match but if you give away a penalty when there is no chance of any danger and then head into your own net when it was not conceivable that the opposition would score then you deserve what you get. Well, you don’t really, that was a really bum deal. The best in the match by a million miles and nothing at the end. An absolutely grand performance from the Gunners and I do not think that it will happen again like this this season. I think that this is the only game that will be lost and that we will set a record number of games won and goals scored when we pic\k up the Premiership trophy next April (we will have it before May).
Dave
I say away with the Old Trafford referee, I bet you didnt know it has been the same ref for the past 15 years, with one of those great london jewel robber disguises, if you think about it fits, cos anytime arsenal or any of the top teams go to old trafford they get ROBBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think AW shd forget about anti football.Fabregas said teams played anti soccer to stop the gunners from winning.It appears that the red faced cunt’s team deliberately sought to kick the guuners off the park.They were helped by the referee. The FA shd study his performance and pensioned him off.
AW shd fight fire with fire and not with water.This was just like the 2004-05 season.In the 50th game reyes was kicked at least three time by Neville bf the bald head took action. And remember this very same cunt of a ref had give MU at least nine penalties in previous seasons.
It seems to me there is a conspiracy to stop Arsenal from winning what with all the biased decsions going aagisnt the gunners in matches involving the refaced/nosed cunt’s team.
No managers are good losers, particularly to rival teams on important games
well said mate! haha this might be ur best post ever!! love the title! hahahahahahahhah!! rotfl, lol!
Arsene is just jelous? is 13 or 14 years how much has he achieved?
He’s just jelous he doenst have a fletcher!!
that twat!
GENTLEMEN,
WHEN ROBBIE FOWLER OF LIVERPOOL, HIT 3 GOALS IN 4 MINUTES AGAINST ARSENAL IN 1994, ARSENE WENGER KEPT HIS COOL.
MOST MANAGERS WOULD HAVE GONE BERSERK !
– AND ARSENE WENGER DOES NOT SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY LIKE REAL MADRID .
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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