Wenger book: MY SACRIFICE

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I am noise sensitive. Not in the miserable sense, but if I can hear the detailed undertakings of mouth and saliva mechanics, it does something to me. It’s rage-inducing, I could literally jump over a table and pull out whatever you’re swilling around and throw it at a waiter.

‘WHY DID YOU GIVE HIM THIS’

I have the same problem in the cinema. It’s acutely distressing to sit in a public space and realise that only a small percentage of an entire nation had parents that’d call them out for being disgusting. Yesterday, I ventured out to watch Joker… I sat next to someone that was quite possibly the vilest human being in existence.

He processed food like a cartoon robot for the entire 2 hours. He ordered 3 drinks, two plates of wings, a HUGE bowl of popcorn, and he had a Trader Joe’s bag of chaser snacks just in case his blood sugar level dropped 0.2% below heart attack levels of overdose. This guy swilled his ice cubes before crunching them like they were a snack. He fellated his chicken wings before devouring them… then he performed the same act on his fingers to deal with the remnant sauce. It was harrowing.

If I ever come to power… I’ll have ‘HOW TO BE A DECENT HUMAN IN PUBLIC’ classes for the kids.

  • Airports
  • Concerts
  • Cinema
  • Dinner table
  • Commuting

Anyway… the film was good, reminded me of the comments section here. JUST KIDDING GUYS DON’T KILL ME ON YOUTUBE.

So what has Ozil been up to lately? He’s only gone and launched a game, hasn’t he…

The game is called The Longest Kick. It’s basically what it says on the tin. You time yourself to hit a ball a really long way. Not sure it’s taking down Fortnite, but bravo to the German for using his downtime for something productive.

Arsene Wenger is back in the news AGAIN, this time, hawking the fact he has a book deal coming out.

“Regret is maybe I sacrificed a little the winning potential against the loyalty potential or desire to build up the club & influence I had when we built the stadium, against the fact I could’ve won more by going somewhere else & being less limited financially”

It’s going to be insanely choked full of propaganda, I honestly can’t wait to read it. Cannot imagine that I’ll be on the book tour list of people to shoot the shit with, but regardless, it should be a fun read, because he has ZERO shame, and I am pretty sure this is going to be a legacy fixer. He cocooned himself from the real world when he was managing us, I think he’s now caught up on the shambles, and he’s embarrassed. He did not expect the world of football would reject him. It has been a sobering expereince. His chats to BeIN have gone from ‘I’ll be back shortly’ to ‘I SACRIFICED MY BEING FOR THE GAME I DESERVE, ME, ME, ME.’

If I were his publishing company, I’d take the book in the three parts. The good, the bland, the fucking disgraceful. Long it out, there’s surely enough of a market to sell all three. I’d also like him to go into detail across all three parts of his career. 300 pages is not enough space to do justice to his mixed bag career at the top.

I also hope there’s some sort of overarching theme across all three of them. It’d be nice of the book was useful in some way. Carlo had a book on leadership, it gave you a fix of Palace intrigue, but it also gave you his principals of leadership. Clive Woodward also had a great book as well. Would love to read something like that from Big Weng.

I just hope it isn’t an attempt to rewrite history. Some lame counterbalance that he thinks will tip elite recruiters his way. Just give it to us honest. What can WE the ordinary folk learn from someone that let power destroy his purpose in football?

I also don’t want the read to be a victim piece. Own it, Arsene. Arsenal gave you £100m, ten years more than you deserved and absolute control of the direction of the club. If you failed, it’s because we gave you permission to do things exactly the way you wanted to do them. Insipid leadership from Stan, embarrassing toady behavior for the Failure in Chief that is now tanking in Milan, are all valid points… but ultimately, it was all on you. If you’re too power-drunk to ask for help, that’s your problem.

I hope he has a good ghostwriter, he should go for someone like Rapha Honigstein. It’d show character to approach a penman that’d have a neutral view on the narrative.

Finally, Unai Emery’s deal is not up next summer. He has the full 3 years. That’s depressing. Like turning up to the airport a day early. Best hope he lands the Champions League this season if he wants to see the year 3 of that deal.

Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments. x

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Graham62

Alex Cutter/ Dissenter

I’m not.

Basically English tourists are at their best when they’re not seen and not heard.

Just recently went to Bahrain for two weeks. It was great because no Brits around.

Graham62

Unfortunately the age of cheap flights, cheap accomodation and cheap booze, has given rise to the unruly brigade.

I’m British(50% Scots) and I’m ashamed to be associated with these shameless numpties.

Valentin

Dissenter, I think that the £6.5 millions basic salary for Allegri is in line with what previous managers earned. ManUtd contracts are heavily incentives and have release clauses. David Moyes was on £6.5 millions a year. Van Gaal earns a reported £3.3million as his basic annual salary, but then earns a series of bonuses to boost his wage. It was just stupid Gazidis who was giving a huge basic salary to Wenger without any break clause, target incentives. Looks like Ed Woodward may want to give OGS time, but if his paymaster tell him to do something about the manager.… Read more »

G

Yeh shd be easier to win CL,, just ask Mancity..
Graham i was 25 in 1992…. let me know if you want my age in 2019

Valentin

Marc, How many big opportunities will be available next summer? It would be a step down for Allegri to leave Juventus and come back at any other Italian clubs. Barcelona look settled, but are also skint anyway as revealed by their account. Real Madrid is in trouble in Europe, but they are also top of la Liga. If Zidane were to win la Liga, I doubt that Perez would sack him. Nobody can guess what would happen at PSG. Plus it is a basket case club, so list likely to stay away. Leonardo may give an Italian connection. Bayern are… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

Not going to be an easy game on Monday. Sheffield are a well organised team and we all know how difficult we will make this ourselves. My team would be: ——————–Leno Chambers, Holding, Luiz, Tierney ——————Torreira ———–Willock, Guendouzi ———–Auba, Laca, Martinelli Not sure if Lacazette is fit for it but some reports suggesting he might just be. Aubameyang played well at RW in preseason and that was formerly his position, Martinelli has looked very good when played and he’s more of a presence than Saka. He’s tireless, physical, fast and direct. If Lacazette isn’t fit I’d be tempted to go… Read more »

Graham62

Six years ago, on a flight to NY with my wife and kids, a group of 4 English numpties( 3 guys and an obnoxious female)were causing some disruption on our flight. Some of us tried to intervene but it made things worse. Even the stewardesses/stewards were getting grief. A gentleman sitting 3 rows infront of us got up slowly and walked across to the group. He looked at them for about twenty seconds, was verbally abused in the process but remained silent. He then took from his pocket his wallet and handed over a card to the girl numpty. The… Read more »

Graham62

Sorry, my mistake, it was in 2012.

7 years ago.

Graham62

Forgot to mention, they were all English.

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G

Congrats! You’ve reached the summit then.

Now your on the downhill slope, like me.

As for your MC comparison, still got about 15 years to outdo us.

Valentin

Graham62, Last year, one of my colleague had something similar happen to him. He and his family were flying to Miami, when a group of unruly idiots started to cause trouble. One paasenger politely ask them to tone it down. They insulted him and things looked like they were going to be physical, when one man stood up and shout at them at them to all sit down. They shouted back at him the usual “Who do you think you are to speak to us like that?” Answer calmed down everybody: U.S Marshall. My colleague told us that the rest… Read more »

Nelson

CA

You give up on Pepe already?

Cesc Appeal

Nelson Not at all, but he needs to be taken out of the firing line. Something isn’t right with him and I think he’s shocked at the levels above Ligue 1 that the EPL is. It seems a real confidence issue with him to the point that I’m willing on every one of his passes to be completed and every dribble to be successful because you can visibly see the confidence drain from him when something goes wrong. He’s also slowing our play down, he seems to linger on the ball and then take the safe option with the pass… Read more »

Graham62

Valentin

So, folks, the answer is the next time you’re flying, get a few business cards printed up.

MI5/MI6/ CIA/FBI etc

Make sure you don’t put M25!

Redtruth

George Graham had one opportunity to win the European Cup whereas Wenger had 22 attempts and flopped.

Valentin

Graham62,

Maybe, but I am not sure that pretending to be MI5, MI6, CIA or FBI will not lead to go directly to jail for impersonating an official. On the other hand if they believe you, you may end up interrogated in a dark room without lawyer.

If nobody believe you , you may still offend people. I was in flight where some idiots on a stag do wearing wigs, high heels, inflated boobs and fake UK policewomen uniform. That did not go down very well at the arrival at customs.

Danialtos

? Graham62October 16, 2019 12:32:29 It’s amazing how our on authorities, and especially our media, are diving into this Bulgarian racism storm.Maybe we should take a good hard look at our own fans and their braindead actions over the years, to also understand why we create so many problems for ourselves.I can only vouch for myself here, but when travelling abroad( I lived overseas for 20 years) I have always tried to avoid being near Brits and their annoying and disrespectful ways. I educated my own children to show respect and empathy wherever they travelled.This superior than thou attitude and,… Read more »

Marc

Danialtos

If you despise and hate what the English are / have done why don’t you fuck off and support a team from another more socially acceptable country?

I’m sure that wherever you are from has never been guilty of any sort of issue.

Cesc Appeal

Marc

Was is sad/laughable is that when I was watching the Bulgaria game and listening to the condemnation I knew that a lot of the online discussion would go something along the lines of ‘yeah it’s bad, but the British…’

Basically if we apply the principle that every nation is judged by their worst moments and cannot speak out on a subject unless innocent of it then no one ever speaks out about anything…ever.

Marc

Valentin

Re your point from earlier (about 90 minutes ago!) I’m not arguing that sometimes you have to seize the opportunity when it presents itself but it can work the other way and if Allegri took over ManU and struggled – anther season outside the CL, more poor recruitment (they have no management structure that knows football) then all of a sudden it’s a poisoned chalice.

Marc

Cesc

The simple fact is Home Sapiens are savage , hypocritical, violent animals.

This moral outrage pisses me off beyond belief.

Samesong

Marc is back lol.

Marc

Samesong

It drives me nuts. I shouldn’t let the world wind me up but it just has to keep fucking pushing it.

Marc

As a different view on what happened the other night – and I don’t think any player should be subjected to racist chants etc – but if I’m one of the black English player’s being abused I’d be tempted to finish the job and then club together to pay for a series of TV adverts on Bulgarian TV pointing out that we earn more than there GDP.

It probably wouldn’t go down well but being nice to people rarely works. Embarrassing the shit out of the country might do better.

Pierre

Marc
To be fair , Danialtos is a bit of a prick , so take it easy on him.

Marc

Pierre

That’s one of the funniest comments I’ve ever seen on here!

On the other hand saying it’s not his fault pisses me off as well!

Cesc Appeal

Marc England handled themselves really well. Sterling, Rashford, Mings etc especially were so professional. I thought Southgate did a great job as well, you could tell he was waiting for it to start and was in the ear of the players consulting with them as soon as it kicked off. I liked Henderson as well who was having none of it in an early exchange with Balakov who was clearly trying to downplay things (as he did after the match). The deflection, denial etc from certain Bulgarian individuals has been nothing short of embarrassing although it looks like it’s all… Read more »

Redtruth

Marc
“but if I’m one of the black English player’s being abused I’d be tempted to finish the job and then club together to pay for a series of TV adverts on Bulgarian TV pointing out that we earn more than there GDP..”

Brexiteers didn’t vote to be better off, windrush and the ending of freedom movement is the objective.

Valentin

Marc, Managers are rarely installed when everything is rosy and perfect. Usually the previous manager messed things up and got the sack. Cleaning the mess of the previous manager is part and parcel of the job. Coming mid way through the season would buy him some time. Time to learn the league and his players. Who to keepnand who to jettison. If results don’t follow, He would always be able to blame it on the players until the next transfer window. Come in summer, replace half the team and don’t get immediate results, suddenly the new manager is under pressure.… Read more »

Marc

Red

One day you’ll figure out how little I give a fuck about what you think.

Marc

Valentin

I just wonder if ManU could be about to repeat Liverpool’s run after a dominant period.

There’s a huge amount of problems to be sorted.

Marc

Cesc

I didn’t watch the match live – I turned it on when I heard some of what was going on. By the sounds of it England successfully tried to take the moral high ground but I can just see UEFA / FIFA letting it get swept under the carpet.

Fuck knows what’s going to happen in the 22 World Cup, it could be a disaster.

Bamford10

In part to keep things interesting around here, I will go way out on a limb and say that not only will United compete for top four this season, they will do so with Solskjaer at the wheel. Yes, the whole world has written them off, and yes, the whole world has declared Solskjaer dead as dead, but the whole world happens to be wrong on this point. United were right to place faith in Solskjaer, and as long as they avoid serious injury issues in their starting XI going forward, they will compete for fourth by season end. You… Read more »

Marc

Bamford

Mate OGS would need a series of promotions to even be in line with a chance of achieving 2nd rate.

With what they’ve spent on their squad they should even be in doubt of not getting top 4.

Redtruth

Bamford

It’s hardly going out on a limb, predicting the richest club in the world to finish 4th.

Graham62

People voted to leave for a variety of reasons, not just because they wanted an end to the freedom of movement.

I guarantee you one thing, if any other country in Europe was a SMALL CRAMPED ISLAND like ourselves and they’d had to deal with as much shite as we have over the past forty years, they would have also voted to leave. Germany being one of them.

The thing is, when the majority of people are pissed off with how things are being run, there’s only going to be one outcome.

RT

Why didn’t you vote?

Bamford10

“style of play are even worse than under OGS“ Their style of play has been quite nice actually, especially before their injury woes. It’s the results that have been poor. In truth, if there is one thing Solskjaer definitely understands, it is how to get a team playing in pleasing and effective attacking patterns. Whether he can get results is another matter and an open question. However, where many are assigning blame for United’s poor results to Solskjaer, I think the blame lies with their injury woes, their lack of depth and the youth of some of their fill-ins. Time… Read more »

Valentin

ManUtd has no squad depth. Any injury to Martial, Pogba and they are in trouble. It says a lot about the quality of the team when the goalkeeper is player of the season for 3 years running, then it is a left back that the previous manager was trying to force out. It was crazy to get rid of Lukaku and Sanchez without a proper replacement. Outside of Martial, they have nobody who can play No9 at a high level. Rashford does not look like a 20 goals a season striker. His back to the goal play is poor. Greenwood… Read more »

Marc

“Time will tell.”

One thing no one can argue with – it always does.

Valentin

Bamford,

ManUtd have been playing counter-attacking football under OGS. All their victory have been when the opposition tried to play.
Whenever the opposition let them have the ball, they don’t know what to do with it. The game became slow, ponderous and boring as well. Suddenly the opposition score and that’s it for them.
It is the same scenario. If they score first, then opposition has to open the game and that plays into their hand. Score first again them and they fold.

Marc

Graham

That’s why a second referendum would be a disaster at the moment. It would just lead to a 3rd followed by a 4th and on and one. Trust in MP’s is at a dangerously low level.

Our politicians really need to get their shit together and show a little leadership. If Johnson get’s a deal on the table and the Common’s votes it down fucks knows where we go from there.

Marc

Valentin

I really wish you’d stop talking football on here!

Bamford10

Red

Everyone here and everyone in the press has written them off. I think saying they’ll compete for 4th by season end is in fact going out on a limb. Especially as I’ve said they’ll do it with Solskjaer at the helm — a manager who literally EVERYONE has written off.

You do you, though.

Samesong

RIP Patrick Day boxer

Bamford10

New post.

Ces1ne?

I’m willing to give him another season EASILY…..but if you’re not, please don’t let it get to Wenger levels. Use your feet & voices to get UE out ASAP if you’re not happy, just like Wenger we owe him/them NOTHING. Simple as…\*¿*/

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