Looking at the demeanour of Wenger post match after that 5-1 this must be his last season and for his own sake I hope he retires.
You just know what it will be like if he continues and he doesn't deserve that.
No I don't think he does deserve it either. While the last decade has been unspectacular given his first decade in charge I still think he's done an excellent job particularly in those first few years at the new Emirates when he really had to watch spending and make do with bringing through players like Emmanuel Eboue! The teams of recent years, particularly tonight, have been bland, gutless, characterless and black hole of charisma - the ultimate insult to that great squad he built and fielded in the early 00s.
In all seriousness I think he's the most significant and influential thing to have happened to modern English football. The monumental reversal in fortunes that occurred when he arrived at Arsenal and the revolution in sports science that was applied ALONG with the stunningly beautiful football that was so elegantly displayed week in week out supercharged the Premier League into the most dynamic, exciting and lucrative domestic football competition in world football. In giving football the great invincible side of Henry, Bergkamp, Vieira and company he's provided the league with a beautiful iconography that, while making me very jealous, has also received my utmost appreciation.
For the football purist he provided the perfect antidote to the overly commercial and financially doped ventures of Manchester United and later Chelsea and Man City. In fact the way he single handedly raised the standards in English football ultimately influenced Ferguson to up his game and become European Champions in 1999 on the back of such changes. Ferguson owes Wenger a huge debt. Of course that is a fact the little Britain mindset of our nation's press is unlikely to admit and something even less likely to stream out of Ferguson's mouth.
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