Goodbye Title, Welcome Fourth Place Trophy

One of football's been-round-the-block maxims is: Don't change a winning side. |But just like all things life, there are only two absolutes: death and taxes. Once again,Wenger ballsed up in his team selection. Further more, he chose his own executor in his dithering at making the changes early enough. I know many of you will agree with my conclusion: The title is lost!

This time of the season is all about momentum. Look around us and smell whats cooking. Chelsea have found that extra gear. Mourinho's men have dug in just a little bit more. Liverpool have dug deeper and have chosen to out score the opposition if that is what it takes. For city, well Agurero is back and if they taste glory tomorrow, you can guess the knock on effect.

We did just about enough in our traditional worst month, February, but now, surely, are we placing our bet on beating Bayern to get that fire burning in our belly again? Bullocks!

For Christ-sake, why didn't Wenger utilize Alex Chamberlain's pace, trickery and form? What took him so long to realize the team's flat affect. What about Gnabry? Yes, he is still learning the curve, but I thought it was about dimension. About having the right mix of solutions to a problem. Just look at what Januzaj has done to the shambolic United campaign.


The German lad could at least offer that, dimension, as it was so easy for Stoke to button us up: With no other attacking outlet, shackle Giroud and ignore woeful Podolski -just as his team and manager does. Occupy,press ( and rotational foul) the middle of the field to take care of Rosicky et.al.Then break with verve and periodically bounce the ball up in the air just to unsettle them.

In my prematch write up, I thought it unwise to start Wilshere and the my self-righteous eyes concludes that Wenger's late substitution vouched for that. We needed a Flamini to hurry Stoke when in possession. For all of our banter at Stoke for rugby football, they actually matched us for possession save when they needed to protect their goal late on. Why did we respect them so much, why weren't the front three pressing the ball?

And what's with these slow starts to games? Is it to do with our pre-match preparations as attested by us suffering most of our defeats in early Saturday kick-offs (a fact that Wenger alluded to following the Liverpool 5-1 drubbing)

I thought Wenger was the diet master. If that's not the problem, you have to question our warm up routine and his motivational techniques.Has Wenger lost his edge over the years? How is it that every team we play of late seems fitter and more hungry. Don't make excuses about tiredness, these players haven't played since last Saturday and benefited from a two today rest which most found curious but Wenger vehemently defended.

What next? As a bare minimum, lets at least win the FA cup and get third. Depressing given that we had a chance of the title in years, but that will be some progress...and for this summer, lets address that striker issue.

p.s   Forgive the typos. This post was done when very pissed off and on my Ipad. When is that Swedish guy (forget his name) we bought coming back from injury? Sad how low we have sunk, looking forward to see some been around play for Arsenal just for excitement sake. Even worse to think that we had the time,opportunity and resources to create the right conditions for winning the EPL title.

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