11 March, 2006
While we have been drawn against Juventus in the quarter-finals Wenger calls for a rousing reception from the fans to the return of Patrick Vieira. By saying “He has done so well for nine years for us, who has given us nine top, top years? A few players before, but of the foreign players I can only remember Patrick [and Bergkamp]. He has given nine years to the Club, that is why I want him to have a great reception. I am sure our fans are strong enough and big enough to do that.”
Out of a sudden PFA Chief Gordon Taylor & West Ham manager Alan Pardew have realised that there werent enough english players in Wengers squad that marched on to the quarters at the expense of eliminting Real Madrid on the way. And incredibly they are disappointed at that! Instead of applausing the effort put in by Arsenal to comprehensively beat Real both home and away and in the process remaining the only British side to bear the country's flag after big money Chelsea & reigning Liverpool crashed out; they have expressed diappointment at the lack of british players in the team that ousted Real. And though I had decided that I will certainly write an article to this effect time constraint has not permitted me to do so and hence I only leave you with what Wenger very aptly replied them with. Here is what Wenger has to say to both Gordon & Pardew and to all who think along the lines of these two.
After the celebrations for the quarters passage, all eyes are now upon our next fixture with Liverpool on Sunday. While Henry, Jens, Cesc and Freddie had all picked some kind of knocks at Highbury, all have recovered but a doubt remains about Freddie. As it has been the case for a while Sol, RVP and Cygan are our regular absentees though seem to be on their way back to full training by Sunday.
Liverpool couldn’t defend their European title losing out to Benfica and as such we can expect them to be down some what psychologically and that shoud be an advantage to us. Needless to say we should make good use of it as we just cannot afford to lose anymore. We have got to kill them, be it Liverpool or anybody else.
Wenger is currently not eyeing a backdoor entry to next years Champions League by winning it this year but instead is confident enough in the team to finish even above Liverpool who are currently third. When he says - "But at the start of the competition we didn't look at that. We just wanted to do as well as we could. We believe we will come back in the top four and I believe we can even catch Liverpool.” Way to go Arsenal!!
While we have been drawn against Juventus in the quarter-finals Wenger calls for a rousing reception from the fans to the return of Patrick Vieira. By saying “He has done so well for nine years for us, who has given us nine top, top years? A few players before, but of the foreign players I can only remember Patrick [and Bergkamp]. He has given nine years to the Club, that is why I want him to have a great reception. I am sure our fans are strong enough and big enough to do that.”
Out of a sudden PFA Chief Gordon Taylor & West Ham manager Alan Pardew have realised that there werent enough english players in Wengers squad that marched on to the quarters at the expense of eliminting Real Madrid on the way. And incredibly they are disappointed at that! Instead of applausing the effort put in by Arsenal to comprehensively beat Real both home and away and in the process remaining the only British side to bear the country's flag after big money Chelsea & reigning Liverpool crashed out; they have expressed diappointment at the lack of british players in the team that ousted Real. And though I had decided that I will certainly write an article to this effect time constraint has not permitted me to do so and hence I only leave you with what Wenger very aptly replied them with. Here is what Wenger has to say to both Gordon & Pardew and to all who think along the lines of these two.
After the celebrations for the quarters passage, all eyes are now upon our next fixture with Liverpool on Sunday. While Henry, Jens, Cesc and Freddie had all picked some kind of knocks at Highbury, all have recovered but a doubt remains about Freddie. As it has been the case for a while Sol, RVP and Cygan are our regular absentees though seem to be on their way back to full training by Sunday.
Liverpool couldn’t defend their European title losing out to Benfica and as such we can expect them to be down some what psychologically and that shoud be an advantage to us. Needless to say we should make good use of it as we just cannot afford to lose anymore. We have got to kill them, be it Liverpool or anybody else.
Wenger is currently not eyeing a backdoor entry to next years Champions League by winning it this year but instead is confident enough in the team to finish even above Liverpool who are currently third. When he says - "But at the start of the competition we didn't look at that. We just wanted to do as well as we could. We believe we will come back in the top four and I believe we can even catch Liverpool.” Way to go Arsenal!!
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