I am not an Arsenal fan but it hurts me that a fellow London club (Chelsea FC being my favourite club) is not really pulling its weight in challenging the others to honours especially the northern teams, i see the league as (Chelsea+Arsenal) vs (Man Utd+Liverpool). It is unbelievable that AW will let go the whole group of the 2005 unbeaten success within such a short period and not replace them with experience and quality, he rather settles for small sized, inexperienced and fragile players who seem to be made of glass as they break down with injuries week in week out. Annoyingly you see all these ’sacked’ players doing well in the clubs they left for, for instance Gilberto is captain of the Brazillian national team and doing well for his club, Lassana Diarra has a permanent jersey in Real Madrid despite the array of stars in the team and this midfield position is Arsenal’s major weakness, i don’t know how you can let go Diarra and Gilberto for a Diaby and Denilson.

Agreed that the Arsenal team have great individual skills, but they do not have the confidence to translate this to winning trophies, moreover they claim these boys are still very young, but i disagree because we have been calling them young for about 5 seasons now, when will they become ripe oooo?. The funny part of the whole AW policy is that, serious minded teams will come up and buy up some of these potentially good lads and take them away to win trophies, then AW will go get another $150,000 worth 15 years old, build him for 2-3yrs and when maturity beckons, he sells them to the serious minded teams and the cycle goes on. I see Arsenal loosing another set of these players this January window or summer, e.g Senderos, Armand Traore,Fabianski and probably Gallas and Fabregas solely out of frustration of not winning trophies. I have a die hard Arsenal fan friend who will never stop supporting the club, but cuts a frustrated figure after every transfer window closes and the usual inactivity of AW in the window passes by….he frequently guts out…’is Arsenal owned by AW’s father why can’t he just buy good players?’. He is anxiously waiting for Stan Kroeke to completely take over the club and boot out AW for a more serious trophy winning coach.

I will rest my case at this point and hopefully wish Arsenal rises up to the occassion next season and let us(THE LONDON CLUBS) challenge United and Liverpool for honours……..COMON CHELSEA!!!!

For the sake of patriotism, my heartfelt wishes goes out to the national team with great hopes for victory given all permutations fall in our favor.

God bless Nigeria.

I appreciate your comments and the time taken to put them down.

Please note that I do not encourage planlessness nor indulge laziness. Both have been the albatross of our national life save from the issues of tribalism and corruption!

I clearly captured the issues you raised; please go through the post again. I only came short of calling for the head of Ahmodu should Nigeria make it to the world cup.

Ours is a potentially great country and Nigerians are hard working people but most of our leaders are nothing to write home. Here’s the dilemma. Should we sacrifice the happiness of millions of people only so that a few administrators would lose their jops? Even in our clime, it is now glaring that poor performance engenders greater appointment!

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