April 17th 2011: Wenger blames referee for Arsenal draw
“We conceded a penalty after 11 minutes when the referee said there was eight minutes of injury time. I don’t see where those three minutes came from and it was no penalty.”
April 10th 2011: Wenger blames grieving Gunners for goal drought after competition exits
“After what happened to us we are in grief and the spontaneous side of your game goes a little bit. That’s why our goals have dried up. This team cares and fights but after what happened to us, it takes time to recover. We have not given up but it’s not as easy for us as it was before.”
April 3rd 2011: Wenger blames international break
“I had not seen most of the players for two weeks and we got them back altogether on Friday morning for the first time, so it was very difficult to predict what would happen. Players have come back from international duty and they are not sharp – half of the team has not recovered.”
March 14th 2011: Wenger blames lack of confidence
“Subconsciously the disappointment of Tuesday night has played a part in the game. You could see something has gone, not in our effort, not in our attitude but confidence-wise.”
March 10th 2011: Wenger blames ref
We came back into the game and I am convinced that we would have won it. Even if he did hear the whistle it was the wrong decision in a game like that. Maybe the Spanish fans and newspapers will think differently but people who have played football won’t understand it. I am frustrated by the decision of the referee. It is difficult to understand why he would make a decision like that to kill a football game.”
March 2nd 2011: Wenger blames Koscielny
“He [Koscielny] made certainly a mistake, he is really angry about it. We have, as well, to show that we support him and that we believe he is a fantastic defender. Wojciech is alright, there was more a misunderstanding. Because in the last second, Koscielny didn’t follow through [with his clearance] because he thought he saw Wojciech coming out. Then he had a hesitation and that hesitation was fatal for us.”
February 5th 2011: Wenger blames Barton, bad luck and panic
“It was a completely unnecessary sending-off, and I believe Barton was very lucky to stay on the pitch for the tackle on Diaby. I explain that by the fact that he has been injured so many times from bad tackles that he lost a bit quickly his nerves because this boy has been out for a long time and many times. Certainly the tackle provoked his reaction. I felt that it became difficult at 4-1. At 4-0 we were quite comfortable but then we panicked a little bit. I also think we were a bit unlucky on occasions.”
January 13th 2011: Wenger blames fatigue
“I’m disappointed with the performance and the players are, too. We had a night off. We rely a lot on our sharp and crisp passing and that was always a problem tonight. In every department I would say we were below our usual level. I put that down to a bit of fatigue.”
December 30th 2010: Wenger blames lack of leadership on the pitch
“Nobody looks from the outside to take charge on the organisation side. There is no voice when the focus drops a little bit. You don’t feel that anybody takes charge on alertness and we need to communicate much better than that.”
December 14th 2010: Wenger blames Manchester United pitch for mistakes
“The intensity was high but it was a very bad pitch,” said the Frenchman. The technical quality suffered as a result and that’s why you saw mistakes from both sides.”
November 3rd 2010: Wenger blames complacency
“We had a good start, but after that we lost our urgency. It was more of a team problem, a kind of complacency problem more than an individual problem.”
It’s amazing what you find when you type in “Wenger blames” in to Google and just include quotes from this season alone. Hopefully he’ll be needing something else to blame dropped points on tonight…
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Finally I Retain Sanity Today. Wenger is an idiot.
No pity for him or his team. Never Arsenal’s fault,get over it loser.
I love the “blames the manchester united pitch” one the most……..Like Arsenal played on one pitch and the team who beat him played on a different one
All this in 5 months
Just change his name to Wanker. It’d make it easier on all of us.
Can’t stand the idiot and his embarrassing tirades at refs and opposing managers. It’s not so much what he says but what he does that is shameful.
lookin at the picture he should be blaming ‘a lack of fibre in his diet’!
I’m pretty sure you could make an article about Sir Alex Ferguson blaming plenty of people, if you were so inclined. Bit of a pointless cheap shot, particularly after last night’s “clear penalty” claim by Fergie.
Wenger is whinging cunt. I hope the mincing cunts get turned over tonight. On another topic, the Daily Mail have renamed Javier Hernandez, ‘Chichacheato’. Fucking cunts. They obviously feel Torres two more blatant acts of diving was ok and not worth that much exposure.
How pathetic.
It would be simple to compile a similar list about your manager.
A new low for this blog, and thats no mean feat.
Feeling jittery about the points dropped last night methinks.
Utterly, utterly pathetic though Im afraid.
Cue the minions with the childish barbs and foul language…..
Stupid manufactured article from what used to be an interesting blog.
Although I’d hate to say it, SAF is the the same.
Apr 20th 2011:
Wenger blames the unusual hot April weather for 2-0 defeat… Claiming White Hart lane is significantly hotter than the Emirates.
Wenger blames RoM
Well as an Arsenal fan I will say that a growing number of supporters are getting sick and tired of Wenger and his bullshit, season after season.
I love “Wenger blames ref”, of course fergie never does that.
Andrew Weber – Piss off pal. That moaning tosser was going on about the penalty that Liverpool got, clearly overlooking the time of the celebration from RVP after his penalty and the fact that it took the ref 3 minutes to get your poxy wall sorted for Liverpools free-kick – it all adds up. If anyone is to blame for you dropping points then look no further than that clown Eboue. Sir Alex may have had his gripes in his time, but it is nothing compared to Wenger’s constant moaning.
@ GoonerDave
Let’s see if your Wenger or captain-marvel Cesc will “pathetically” blaim the White Hart Lane is a rough pitch or should have been given a penalty then…
Watch this space…
@ Kinds – Piss off pal? I don’t think I complained about any of the stuff you just mentioned. I just made a comment that I’m fairly sure you could write a similar comment about Fergie. Tense much?
@ zactaxe- Interesting comment about Cesc, giving that he just gave an interview where he took full responsibility for the result against Barcelona. Also interesting that you say ‘watch this space’ about Wenger complaining about a penalty when that’s what Fergie did last night.
GoonerDave – We are hardly feeling jittery you idiot. We are 7 points clear and if you lose or draw tonight, then we will only require 10 points from our last 5 games, 3 of which are at home. Newcastle is not an easy place to get a result, you should know after throwing away a 4 goal lead.
Should have bought the pegs or lucky white heather when you had the chance,that’s buggered it now.
Massive difference Weber. Fergie wins trophies Wenger wins second at best, thats if you can win second?
This targeting of Wenger makes me very uneasy, especially if Arsenal now go on a winning run as our tired legs give out. It would be just as easy to make any other manager , including Fergie look a whinger with heat-of-the -moment quotes. Right now I don’t want to hear from anyone at Old Trafford, except Fergie, who’s still the best at the club at the mind-games. With hindsight some of the build-up to the City semi was ill-judged on the part of some of the United players, especially Paul Scholes and Rio, both of whom said things that look a bit silly after the match, and probably motivated some city players. Scholes in particular sounded like an ex-player looking back on the ‘good old days’, which suggests he’s going to quit this summer. What a shame his probable last derby match was such a disaster for him, and the team. A period of silence from now till June would be a good idea for all the players.
All managers whing but i thought wengers press conference a couple of weeks ago was the most damaging to the arse.
He tried to quantify that coming second is still a success if “you maximise all the potential at your disposal”.
Do you think for a second in the heat of the fight, at squeeky bum time, that fergie would let the players see him saying second is good enough. not a chance. i think if wenger kicked a boot and hit bentdner in the head it would do a world of good to those pansies playing for him, but he’s not going to do that.
His youth project ideals are admirable but ultimately fruitless so far. If doesnt help when these gems lose patients and move on to win medals.
The difference between Fergie and Wenger is that Fergie puts blame where it is needed. eg, shite refs, in the hope that in the future we’ll get a fair ref. Fergie accepts that when United lose, then we need to sort the problem ourselves. Wenger seems to look for someone to blame rather than accept Arsenal aren’t good enough.
Arsenal won’t win another title with Wenger in charge. FACT. When a manager is at a club for a long period of time the club becomes moulded in the managers image. This is why United have that never say die, us against the world mentality and Arsenal have this whingy, whiney mentality.
Wenger’s best teams had players who he didn’t sign, eg, Adams, Vieira, Keown, Dixon, who all had more fight in them than what you see now.
@ NotoriousRedDevil – Massive difference between what? Since when were we talking about trophies? I thought we were talking about blaming others for results? Going off topic a bit.
Wenger blames PFA
“It is totally unacceptable that the PFA player of the year is voted in December. If it was voted on later, then Bale would not have won. This contributed to his extra confidence against us tonight. I also believe that the PFA intentionally gave the award before the Arsenal Spurs match in order to help give Spurs a boost”
Andrew Weber – I was stating the fact that Wenger always blames people if he doesn’t get his own way, a fact that was highlighted after you drew with Liverpool – he blamed the ref for the extra 4 minutes that cost you the 3 points. You clearly mentioned the issue of blaming, did you not? As for being tense, I don’t think so, especially as I have seen us win 28 trophies in my lifetime.
“bettathedevilsweknow says:
lookin at the picture he should be blaming ‘a lack of fibre in his diet’!”…LMAO at that…
I hate bias, be it from opposing supporters or United supporters. Fergie’s a huge moaner and rarely accept defeat gracefully.
this should have been made into a weekly series a long time ago. lol
Weber. Are you dumb. Mentally inept? Last time I checked all these quotes are about football matches which result in competitions where there’s a trophy at the end of it. If thats off topic for you no wonder your scumpit of a club have won nothing in half a decade. Looks like the loser mentality runs from the manager through to the supporters. Thanks for the laugh though I dangled the worm and you bit it off hook line and sinker.
@ Kings – This will be my final comment on this post. How is Fergie’s end-of-game “it was a clear penalty” statement any different?
@ NotoriousRedDevil – A bit of a classless, aggressive statement for someone who is trying to converse with you fairly reasonably, and has been happy to do balanced interviews with Scott in the past when Arsenal have played United. It’s a shame that one cannot come to a blog like this, reasonably question the content, and not be attacked in the way that you have. But I suppose that’s life.
@ Giles Oakley – Agreed about the build up to the City game, we should have stayed schtum
Also, slightly off topic, but I was surprised to see Owen come on last night, that spurred Newcastle on at a time when we were really grinding them down. It raised the entire Stadium and made out task more difficult than it needed to be. Im obviously glad Owen is still fit and rearing to go, and I think he still has a part to play this season, but bringing him on yesterday benefited Toon more than United. Can’t wait till Ferguson is back on the touchline, we’ve done well without him but at the same time there has been a difference, albeit slight.
Hate to say I agree with the Arsenal posters, but they’re right: you can’t slam Wenger and admonish Ferguson, it’s nonsense. Both constantly shift blame from their players to outside agents; I’m sure it’s a public facade to the dressing-down they issue internally.
A better argument may be that Ferguson berates his players in private more than Wenger, that in-turn motivates his team where-as Wenger’s lads actually believe they’re not to blame. It’s obviously tough to prove but looking at his player’s reactions in the past, and comments to the media, they seem more likely to blame outside agents than Utd players in interview. Who knows?
Let’s concentrate on our own team for the run-in and let them worry about theirs.
quick question how are opposing fans on this blog ? .do they sign up to ROM or do they use an account from a differnt site which can be used for this blog?
Really wouldn’t be surprised if Arsenal won tonight. Its Sods law. Theres only so many times they can have a chance to catch us and fuck it up. Besides they’ve already thrown away a lead to Spurs this season. in comical fashion. Lightening may strike twice but not repeatedly surely? After the weekend, and with the pressure on Arry, really wouldn’t be surprised if Wenger won. Call them what you want but Arsenal are still SECOND and 90 minutes away from being 4 points behind us. They’ll fancy beating us at their ground after our 1-0 at OT. That why first and foremost the Lads need to make sure we put in a proper Old Trafford performance on Saturday and keep the outcome of the title race in our own hands.
Obviously, I’d prefer Spurs to win, not just to stop Arsenal either. They’ve still got enough games in hand to knock City out of the fourth European spot. Stranger things have happened, but if Stoke beat them in the final and Liverpool pull a finger out City could still end up in 6th, Trophy-less, and without any European football next year! That and a 19th would be Heaven on Earth…..
Fuck this whinging cunt. All I care about now is United.
Kings – Hello mate. Yeah I noticed those shithouse cunts at the mail with that headline. As I said the other day I hope they all fucking die. Anyone notice just how many times they kept showing that Lovenkraans non pen last night. About thirty times. Funny how after a decison went against us they have never mentioned it again. I don’t think either were a pen if I am honest. The fact nobody has barely mentioned it speaks for itself.
@ What???
I’m glad I am not the only United-Spurs-Stoke fan around!!!
Pathetic I know – but I just so want to see the ticker banner proudly hanging again next season
More pressing for wenger is if the arse lose tonight and chelski win then chelski go second and our lead is down to 6pts.
To all Gooners – you being seven points behind is not making us tense. You’re finished, bottled it once again. It is Chelsea being two points behind you that is more of a threat now I think.
And Wenger is much worse then Fergie when it comes to moaning and finding excuses. SAF will give credit to the opposition when it’s due, and admit that we weren’t good enough when it’s true. Wenger will trawl through every excuse in the book before he accepts such things, and ends up looking pretty pathetic.
@ GOONERS ON ROM
The bigger point is Wenger hasn’t achieved anything for how long now? Obviously all managers detract attention from their players and blame the pitch, the weather, traffic… Sir Ferguson has even blamed our away kit!
But, with Managers like OURS, and to an obviously lesser extent Mourinho, these excuses cannot and do not become objects of ridicule cos they’ve both got the medals to back it all up. I actually rate Wenger, in an odd kind of way, but after losing to BRUM and going without silverware for fuck knows how long now he really is starting to look and sound like a clown. Surely the GOONERS on here can understand this is a results driven business? You can’t compare what Alex and Arsene say without putting it into the context of ACHIEVEMENT. If Mourinho was talking all that bollocks without winning anything he’d be sectioned. Likewise, the longer Arsenal go without a trophy the more Wenger looks like a MADMAN. Get it? Good…
…and SELL CESC FFS, he plays like a wife forced to remain in a loveless marriage. Its Cruel and demeaning!
haha @ Red Simmo – We can still dream can’t we???
Things like this make me laugh but Wenger is a good manager.
Yes he makes brilliant excuses but he doesn’t publicly criticise his own players. They are second in the league spending considerably less money than many of the 18 teams beneath them.
It’s unlikely they will win any major honours as they don’t seem to have the money to take them to the next level. I really enjoy seeing his sour face every time they play United and weive just scored from yet another counter attack year after year after year…! Long may he stay Arsenal manager! Ha.
This is a wonderful compilation ….. Gave him a lifeline yesterday though.
Red Ratings: Newcastle United
http://www.theunitedreligion.com/2011/04/red-ratings-newcastle-united.html
The Goonera are coming out of the woodwork I see, whinging just as much as their manager.
I heard Wenger is releasing a new rap album called ‘The Drought 6′
Gooners*
I admit as an Arsenal fan Wenger can be infuriating, but it is amazing to see this article after Man U’s slip up in the title race last night ( not that we are going to do anything about it) Anyways BOTH are not angels when it comes to shifting blames. Here are a few of SAF’s “BLAMES”…
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*Alex Ferguson blames refereeing error as United slip to defeat at Chelsea- November 8 2009
“It was a bad decision, but there’s nothing we can do about it. You lose faith in refereeing sometimes, that’s the way the players are talking in there. It was a bad one. The goal should not have been allowed.”
*Sir Alex Ferguson slams referee after United loss-March 01, 2011
“The penalty kick was so soft. Deary me. But we played very well. It was a great performance by us. We didn’t deserve that.
“That’s three years in a row (at Stamford Bridge) referees’ decisions have changed the game.”
*Sir Alex Ferguson blames media and vows to ‘strongly’ fight FA charge- March 12th, 2011
United manager: ‘I have not said anything out of place’• ‘The papers keep on about it because United are involved’ Sir Alex Ferguson has made it clear he intends to fight the possibility of an extended touchline ban, insisting he has “not said anything out of place” and accusing the Football Association of charging him with improper conduct because of pressure from what he considers is an anti-Manchester United media.
*Outraged Ferguson blames ref for defeat.- Sep 17, 1998
Alex Ferguson slammed experienced Italian referee Stefano Braschi as “a real shocker” last night after the official awarded Barcelona two penalties in the 3-3 Champions League draw at Old Trafford.
*Sir Alex Ferguson blames ‘typical Germans’ for red card- 7 April 2010
Sir Alex Ferguson was angered by the behaviour of Bayern Munich’s players as Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League on away goals.
Ferguson said: “The young boy showed a bit of inexperience but they got him sent off, everyone sprinted towards the referee – typical Germans.”
When asked about Rafael’s sending off against Bayern, Ferguson had this to say “It was 35 yards from goal. There was no threat and the referee wasn’t going to do anything about it until they surrounded him. It is typical of Germans. They are like that.”
Ferguson was then asked if the red card changed the game, to which he replied : “There is no doubt about it. They were never getting through that tie, with 11 men we had no problem.
*Fergie Blames The Pitch-March 11, 2005
Manchester United’s season continued to stutter as they slipped to a potentially seriously damaging 1-0 Champions League defeat at Lille
“It was a difficult game actually, it was a scrappy affair. The pitch didn’t help either side,” he complained.
*Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson blames Heurelho Gomes for controversial Nani goal: ‘I thought he made a mess of it’- October 30, 2010 .
While this is funny, it wouldn’t be hard to do a response with Fergie’s quotes
What kind of team finds it difficult at 4-1?
As bad as the corrupt Milan team which gave away the CL trophy.
I rest my case bigphil2003
To All Gooners
* Sell Fabregaaaas – He really does not give a shit for Arsenal and thats not the best captain to have.
* Sell the lot of Clichy and other poor defendars
* Keep Wegnesr – Try to get him a less ego!
* If you cant do that – Get a new manager
I actually like Wegner for what he has achieved in regards to coaching standards. But he really has to understand that his policy has failed. He really needs to let go of his huge ego and take it on the chin. Even if you win the PL this year I really dont see your present team becoming a force in world football. Its not that Arsenal dont have the talent, its just that they dont have the drive.
On the other hand look at United players…we at various times of the season(and last season) had huge injury issues, and refs and FA against us, but come out of them because we feel for each other, feel for the club and feel for ourselves when we loose. We take it personally and it hurts.
And as MEN and not boys we react to it when we it hurts.
Hence we will always challenge for trophies and always play a very attacking and attaractive brand of football.
As for the whinning, to be very honest Sir Alex whinnes much less…SAF is aggresive and will speak out and call a spade as it is when he feels we have been wronged.
LIke his comments on the ref which got this 5 match ban.
Wegner on the other hand tries to be very french like diplomatic and polished and all that but make much more deragatory comments and try to blame things which are in no way connected for the failings of his team eg; the OT pitch…
PS : Does any one agree with me when I feel Owen is actually deserving of the boos that he got at St James…
I think it all comes down to context with this article…
Yes I’d rather see a ‘quick reaction’ blog after last night’s draw, and if this is (which I doubt) intended as a serious piece then it does come across as hypocritical and childish. However, it’s probably intended as a bit of light-hearted banter to lift the mood, so stop taking it so seriously will ya Gooners!
I do have to say though that I am shocked at the vitriolic response to those who ask reasonable questions and make measured statements on this site by some of our fans; a bit more class my friends, we aren’t Scousers lol
Didn’t see your post Nathi, but I like to think this type of article is done tongue in cheek rather than with any sort of “high horse” agenda. Otherwise it’s just hypocritical. Yes Wenger sounds like a moron at times with his excuses, but he does it for a reason. It’s all mind games, some times it works, some times it doesn’t, but Fergie and Wenger are undoubtedly the best two managers in England for the last 20 years so they know what they’re up to.
@Nathi
In anticipation of a typical Gooner response to this thread I’ve already addressed the theme of your 11.28 post mate, so could you and everybody like you pls refer to mine at 10.44, thank you.
Nathi – Yeah well done in compiling a list on Fergie SPREAD OUT over 13 years you silly southern poncey cunt. All the Wenger quotes are the last 5 MONTHS. Fuck off and worry about getting a point tonight and your North London rivals over shadowing you.
Andrew Weber – This is my final statement to you. I know what Fergie said yesterday after the game, my point is with Wenger it is continuous. Now why don’t you go and busy yourself on your own blog.
King Eric – Hello mate. Yeah I hope they all die too, fucking cunts the lot of them. Yeah I could not believe the excessive showing of the Lovenkrands penalty incident on Sky last night. Fucking bastards, they love to make us out to be a cheating side.
Nice one telling that Nathi prick where to go the fucking busy cunt. Them mincing cunts never have anything constructive to talk about. Hardly surprising when you have bastards like Wilshere and that twitter twat Szczesny mouthing off about United all the time.
What is the point of this?When a team loses something is always to blame…..often the team, occasionally the ref. SAF and Wenger are both notoriously bad losers.
“The fault dear Wenger is is not in your stars, but in yourselvs…”
Hi
Last time I saw that it was Basil Fawlty throwing a fit hahaha
Por sod is Wenger.
COME ON YOU MIGHTY REDS……UNITED UNITED UNITED
I think they are all kind of funny…and pathetic. Really? Of course Wegner had absolutely nothing to do with it, none of it was his fault at all. I just thought that it was funny reading this article and all the things he blamed. I mean like for reals?
@ GoonerDave (and all other Gooners in ROM for that matter….)
I told you :
Watch this space…
Let’s see now what Wenger says about the penalty…
And oh yes, in the tone of your “future No. 1 goalkeeper” Sczesny or whatsoever name he has :
All together — “Thank you Sczesny, a big thank you for giving out the penalty and 2 points away, Arsenal rocks!”
Hahahaha..
Don’t blame him for pointing out wenger faults. I’m not reading a Man united blog to hear shit about fergie. I’ll go read an FA blog for that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/21/arsene-wenger-arsenal-tottenham
Wenger blames the Lord God Almighty for not creating extra days of rest for Arsenal:
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“It is a massive disadvantage to play two games of such stature in a matter of days,” he said. “The Liverpool game had a bearing. Physically we dropped in the second half, which explained why they equalised and why there was room to score goal numbers four and five.”
I am just happy that Wenger didn’t blame me.