Roy Hodgson is a better manager than Arsene Wenger
Regina Spektor - No Surprises (Radiohead Cover)Please take a moment to visit the Charities to your right.
Achievements echo far more in history than anything else. We won't be remembered for spending less money year on year at all. I doubt we'll be remembered for anything other than wasted opportunities.
In between all that, we will have the common myths in football that people who score goals and managers win games. In the same way that Arsene Wenger will be inaccurately remembered in history for winning Arsenal trophies, so will we be inaccurately remembered in history for playing great football.
Anybody who is a real football fan or a real Arsenal fan will know it is David Dein who made the modern team what they are and it is he who brought us to the point we are at now. Arsene Wenger was merely, commercially appropriate.
Commercially appropriate.
Footballers are commercially appropriate, just as much as Managers are commercially appropriate. By this, I am sure anybody with a decent MBA who has worked in a major corporation to make major decisions will know, that certain things are said and certain things are done in order to create a commercial success, but the real success isn't indicated to the public but left behind the scenes. The illusion of success is given just like they are given with footballers and managers. Club win - not footballers and managers
George Bush for instance is not an idiot. That's just a myth. It's just commercially appropriate to make him out to be one so people have an idiot to blame; just like Gordon Brown makes calamitous errors too before we get a hung parliament.
Yet, we are idiots. Yes I am an Arsenal fan and I am just like every other Arsenal fan an idiot. We all believe the lies fed to us by the club while they spend less money. Now the funny thing is, we're supposed to be happy about this but what is even funnier is we could save money until the cows come home but there will only be one club left around when all is said and done and because you can't run a league with one club (to cut a long story short) not many clubs will go under because there are enough idiots in football to pay for season tickets and follow teams and...
...the banks know this.
Arsenal now this very well too. Victory through harmony with beautiful football you idiotic fools!
So, we would have won the champions league a couple of teams at least by now and won other trophies too but money is a powerful thing. You know how fans think football players and managers think like them - no because if you ask yourself, what would you do for 1 million pounds and then ask yourself what would you do for 1 million pounds a year, you'll realise there's more to this game than the game.
It's a funny old game but how much of a fan are you to look beyond the obvious and see what is really going on? Do you love the football or do you love the glamour?
Come on, admit it, you like all the bright lights and beautiful colours because for a minute you can dream and fantasise that you're the one kicking the ball and winning and making the money - even if you try and make out that this is not the case.
Years and years ago (I'm talking 20s and 30s guys, not the seventies so you can sit down) football was a cultural thing related to the working week. Ever since we finished with World War 2 and all that economic change, it was all about glamming it up and being well funky to marketise and tax every little part of our lives.
Roy Hodgson is an amazing manager.
Arsene Wenger is a just a greedy man.
posted by Arsenal Muse @ 5/01/2010 02:36:00 AM
