One thing that is positive if you're an Arsenal fan is to see how opinionated and passionate people talk about Arsenal, Arsenal's shortcomings and problems.
I have watched quite a few shows where Arsenal had a bad result and quite some another famous team gets a bad result. One thing is though very clear pundits analysis could not get further different from very similar situation. While for other teams they seem to want to think to get the particular problem / situation, for Arsenal it's more with emotion, anger and stereotypes that come so fluidly to explain our problems.
What's funny is that many of those so called experts hardly had a special link a love or hate one for Arsenal at their known background that should explain the way they're getting personal with all things Arsenal.
I have spent quite some time trying to understand where such to put it mild hatred came from. Then I realised how different Arsenal has been and more how different Arsène is. When you're different to others, people won't accept it. Arsène a part from being french is really a strange bloke in football management and more so in EPL management. He talks differently, acts differently and does generally things differently to others. When people would go out to cry "I don't have resources to compete with the top tems", Arsène will go out bullish about the teams strength and capabilities to not only compete but win things. When most would buy a defender, Arsène goes to shop a center forward. When people would buy a defensive midfielder, Arsène goes and gets an attacking one. That by doing things differently as he does, he realizes as much or more than normal manager with actions we all expect would do, doesn't matter much. People can hail the likes of Moyes, Coyle, Laudrup and even Rodgers only because they can understand what they're trying to do.
The truth is with what we had to put up to be sustainable Arsène has done a termendous job doesn't matter because people can see what they wouldn't do at his place. And believe me thank God many of them are not in his place. What is clear to me is that if Arsène was another normal manager achieving the "little" things he did for the Arsenal, he would have been heralded the next coming.
I have watched quite a few shows where Arsenal had a bad result and quite some another famous team gets a bad result. One thing is though very clear pundits analysis could not get further different from very similar situation. While for other teams they seem to want to think to get the particular problem / situation, for Arsenal it's more with emotion, anger and stereotypes that come so fluidly to explain our problems.
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What's funny is that many of those so called experts hardly had a special link a love or hate one for Arsenal at their known background that should explain the way they're getting personal with all things Arsenal.
I have spent quite some time trying to understand where such to put it mild hatred came from. Then I realised how different Arsenal has been and more how different Arsène is. When you're different to others, people won't accept it. Arsène a part from being french is really a strange bloke in football management and more so in EPL management. He talks differently, acts differently and does generally things differently to others. When people would go out to cry "I don't have resources to compete with the top tems", Arsène will go out bullish about the teams strength and capabilities to not only compete but win things. When most would buy a defender, Arsène goes to shop a center forward. When people would buy a defensive midfielder, Arsène goes and gets an attacking one. That by doing things differently as he does, he realizes as much or more than normal manager with actions we all expect would do, doesn't matter much. People can hail the likes of Moyes, Coyle, Laudrup and even Rodgers only because they can understand what they're trying to do.
The truth is with what we had to put up to be sustainable Arsène has done a termendous job doesn't matter because people can see what they wouldn't do at his place. And believe me thank God many of them are not in his place. What is clear to me is that if Arsène was another normal manager achieving the "little" things he did for the Arsenal, he would have been heralded the next coming.
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