Comments on: Arsenal 0-3 Man City: Players set example that Wenger should follow

By: douse

douse — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:14 +0000

i say shaking hughes hand would have been the gesture of a bloody hypocrite, some would have done it, but a man true to himself wont, bigup arsene. hughes is gonesoon as they get dump out in the semis. another 28 years with nothing oo show. i’m amaze how we have such clowns calling themselves arsenal fans, fair weather prats. most can’t see past their noses. i supprt arsenal and wenger, he is our best ever signing, bar none.
mastergunner

By: theicehammer

theicehammer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:39:03 +0000

hi all, watched the game later and have seen nothing that i haven’t seen be4. FAR TO MANY PLAYERS ARE ROUGHLY THE SAME. I dont really think Wenger had 1 TRUE striker on that pitch. Very Very lovely to watch but im sure every1 could see what was going on. How many times did little jack get pushed off the ball or give the ball away and not fight back 4 it. Young products like Jay Emman Thomas should be out there not allowed to go off on loan. But maybe he’s not small and slick and pretty enough. Apart from the back 4 i only saw a team of possible midfielders all very good on technique and touch but no drive and stacha. I now hide when Wenger is being interviewed. Well said Shambo. Good luck for next game, could be sticky. Up de ammers!

By: Shard

Shard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:14:39 +0000

http://www.onlinegooner.com/exclusive/index.php?id=1418

Let’s see who deserves (and gets) condemnation..

told you arsene had class

By: Shard

Shard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:07:37 +0000

@ andy

Good on ya mate

By: Shard

Shard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:06:33 +0000

@hey nonny mouse

Don’t think we would be saying anything cos nobody would have noticed..I seriously doubt wenger wud have brought it up..

Ur right as regards that there’s nothin to be gained from not shaking hands but it really is a non issue.

By: Hey Nonny Mouse

Hey Nonny Mouse — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:48:19 +0000

Yes, I also still feel he should have shaken hands. All anyone can infer from it is ‘bad loser’. What would we be saying if it was the other way round? The players are told to shake hands with opposition players before and after the match. it’s a code of sportsmanship I approve of. Rugby players bash hell out of each other right through their games and at the end – the losers line up and applaud the victors as they file past! This is a much better scenario than a bunch of sore losers sulking and behaving like spoilt kids.

By: Darragh

Darragh — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:59:22 +0000

Andy, despite the comments, I still think it is ungracious and bad sportsmanship.

Nothing is really achieved by not shaking Hughes’s hand. Instead, by acting this way, he has reduced himself to Hughes’s level and allowed people to question Wenger’s professionalism.

By: MoMONEY

MoMONEY — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:40:42 +0000

Hughes calls Wenger “ungracious”

But who is the ungracious one? The one who is going crazy on the sideline screaming at the ref and the players, so his $100+ million can beat a bunch of reserves because the manager chose to start them- or the one who doesnt shake hands afterwards.

If you have a big math test and the professor gives you a break and tells you to only do half of it- but you still fight and scrape and do everything you can to try to get more of an advantage- you are being ungracious IMO.

By: GetGunMN

GetGunMN — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:27:53 +0000

Now all the darn blogs and online news read the same. “Hate Wenger (ungracious, smug, blah, blah…)not shaken that a-hole’s hand, Arsenal doesn’t have the gut or the physicality blah, blah,” Where are we going with this?

Here is my feeling: We can’t really know the reason why, and don’t really give a flying F.if Wenger didn’t shake Hughes’s hand. Every manager (English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, etc…)ones has been telling us all along that Arsenal is not good enough to even finish the top 4. I’m referring to SAF, Harry, Hughes, and Villa’s coach. That is designed to wind up Wenger and psyche out our players, right? Why is it the other foreign coaches never comment on this? And here we are on the bandwagon cheering on!

We have a problem at this moment in time in the shape of a striker. No one seems to step up from the few we have. We can’t really do anything about it until January now, can we? We all have frustrations sometimes, but we have to put things in perspective. We get enough flak from some other team supporters and media, but what worries me is that this blog also started to get poisoned by few.

By: Andy @ Arsenal FC Blog

Andy @ Arsenal FC Blog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:11:08 +0000

To all the people backing up Wenger’s decision not to shake Hughes’ hand: I think I’ve been convinced.

I’ll have an apology in tomorrow’s post.