Clrnc wrote:
Thrashing some no mark team is okay, thrashing Celtic at home in the UCL? This is their biggest european home loss in history and they were unbeaten for like 40 over matches or something.
Klaus wrote:
We used to trash small teams 7-0 while starting with the likes of Bendtner. It's always been like this.
Those were the days. We struggled against Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos with the likes of Ozil.
As a team we used to be capable of some dazzling football even if we carried some average players and collapsed as soon as injuries struck. But we used to have a philosophy and stuck to it. We beat a peak Barcelona with Bendtner and Gibbs on the field, and for all our flaws we were the only team in England at the time that could have done it. Even the United fans willingly admitted it.
Nowadays there's no overarching design, no clear idea. I genuinely can't think of five games from the last two years where we looked like a brilliant football team. That's the one thing I won't forgive Wenger for. The rest of the stuff - titles, Champions League, big signings - is just icing on the cake. I don't think trophies is everything in football. If it was then the sport would be pointless to 99.9% of all people who watch it. I could live with supporting a flawed team that at least tried to entertain and dazzle me. But for the last 3-4 years I haven't had a clue about who we are supposed to be. We don't have an identity anymore.
