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Writing was on the wall the way the board/management set him up to fail with no staff and giving him a taste of management. He was always going to leave. Love him, top man and servant to the club. Thanks Freddie!
My biggest regret with Arsenal, isn't the state of the club now...it's that era not winning the Champions League they would have deserved.
From 2002-2005, we either won the league, or finished 2nd and won the cup...we were such a great team.
If we could have rounded that 5 year period of, by winning the Champions League in 2006...then I wouldn't really mind how average we are now, tbh.
I think that's the case for all of us who were there back then.
Had Eto'o been judged offside (as he truly was) we would've seen out the match & Wenger's first decade would've truly been the likes of which English football had never seen. A crowning moment of glory for a genius who had been derided the moment he touched down in London from Japan, vindicated by his long-term vision & aims for the club.
Had that happened, the slog from 2006-2014 would've been taken on the chin with good grace by a lot more than those of us who did not sour until the summer of 2015.
This era was Wenger's biggest achievement. He said that himself.
Feel Arsène does a disservice to himself, when he says the 2006-2013 era was his best work.
That was very good by him and the team, don't get me wrong, but some of the stuff that happened before that were legendary...there is a chance, that Arsène may be the only manager, to win a league title in this county (since the Premier League began) without losing a game.
That could conceivable never be matched, even Ferguson couldn't do that...and even if it is matched one day, it will probably be by a team that is back by a whole county, financially...stunning work by everyone at the club at that time.
That's his best achievement.
Yeah, in an ideal world, Arsène has two extra FA Cups [1999 & 2001], a UEFA Cup [2000], a UCL [2006], and AT LEAST two extra league titles [1998/1999 & 2002/2003]. IMO 2007/2008 falls under the latter category. There's this misconception that our fate that season was sealed when we lost away at both United and Chelsea at the tail end of the season. But say we win both the infamous Birmingham game and convert one of the three draws which followed into a victory, we win the league.Fergie was the unquestioned master of the hill. Arsène knocked him off his perch in much the same manner he did Liverpool.
Were it not for a Hasselbaink goal one miserable night at Elland Road & a series of draws in 2003, we'd have a couple more titles & his early years would've been more brilliant were such a thing possible
Yeah, in an ideal world, Arsène has two extra FA Cups [1999 & 2001], a UEFA Cup [2000], a UCL [2006], and AT LEAST two extra league titles [1998/1999 & 2002/2003]. IMO 2007/2008 falls under the latter category. There's this misconception that our fate that season was sealed when we lost away at both United and Chelsea at the tail end of the season. But say we win both the infamous Birmingham game and convert one of the three draws which followed into a victory, we win the league.
I think that's the case for all of us who were there back then.
Had Eto'o been judged offside (as he truly was) we would've seen out the match & Wenger's first decade would've truly been the likes of which English football had never seen. A crowning moment of glory for a genius who had been derided the moment he touched down in London from Japan, vindicated by his long-term vision & aims for the club.
Had that happened, the slog from 2006-2014 would've been taken on the chin with good grace by a lot more than those of us who did not sour until the summer of 2015.
Jeez this page is bringing up all of the painful memories into one.
I also remember when Henry got slipped in at 1 nil in the CL final and I was so so so sure he'd bury it
I really wanted us to be the first club in London to win the CL too, but then Bayern had to bottle it in their own fecking ground, so p!ssed about that....88th minute too and it just had to be, had to be Drogba isn't it.
Atleast the nightmare of all nightmare scenarios didn't occur with Tottenham winning it. I'd have probably changed my name and sh!pped my own a*s back to Ghana if that sh!t happened, on god!!!
Anyone else wonder where we would be had we stuck with Freddie instead? Love the man. Wish he was still associated with the club in some fashion.
We done him dirty with how we treated him, in all honesty.Anyone else wonder where we would be had we stuck with Freddie instead? Love the man. Wish he was still associated with the club in some fashion.