So off we went to Wembley to see Arsenal play Manchester City in the final of this cup competition. This is a home trophy that Wenger hasn't won in the 20+ years he has been the manager despite getting to this stage on a few occasions.
And he still hasn't. Pitiful might be a decent word to describe the quality of play from the Gunners.
Manchester City are one of the nouveau-riche clubs with a long history but always in the shadow of their bigger and more illustrious neighbours Manchester United. Although they have won things in the past they sunk a few levels down in the English football pyramid and then came back to the top league.
With the help of the Arab oil barons that bought the club and the millions spent on players and being gifted the state funded City of Manchester stadium that was built for the Commonwealth Games for less than half the conversion from athletics venue to football stadium, they have started to win things.
Yesterday though, even with their Cityzens riches and players on show, Arsenal were so awful in defence and toothless in attack, that they hardly broke sweat.
After the 2-1 home defeat to Ostersunds on Thursday evening with a pretty much completely changed team, we did think that the first choice players, all rested for a week or so might have looked capable. How wrong we were.
Even with our low expectations for the game we came out even more angry and frustrated.
If the manager can't motivate the team to play like they are interested in winning he needs to go. If he can't get them interested to win a medal and bring home a cup, then what is he and they doing turning up?
The answer my friends is that their bank accounts swelled by another hundred grand......
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