{"id":90,"date":"2018-02-26T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:27:12","slug":"arsenal-was-pathetic-gutless-uninspired-piers-morgan-writes-open-letter-to-the-gunners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal was pathetic, gutless, uninspired – Piers Morgan writes open letter to the Gunners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Controversial journalist and die-hard Arsenal fan, Piers Morgan has written an open letter to the club, after they were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
According to him, Arsenal has been deteriorating under Wenger for 10 years now, and he ‘needs to go for God sake.’<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Read his open letter below.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Arsenal were pathetic. No, hang on, that\u2019s too generous. Pathetic means causing or evoking sympathy. I don\u2019t feel any sympathy for the team who capitulated so appallingly to Manchester City. I feel blind fury and bitter resentment.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
 We were gutless, uninspired, creatively devoid and technically incompetent. We have no leader like Tony Adams or Patrick Vieira, we\u2019ve become a soft touch and the players don\u2019t know how to fight.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Wenger looked like a death row inmate waiting to be taken to the electric chair; angry, frustrated, careworn and suddenly very old. Arsenal are disintegrating as a major club before my eyes. It\u2019s time Arsene Wenger and Arsenal parted company. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Strong words, right?<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
But here\u2019s the thing: I didn\u2019t write this last night after Arsenal were thrashed 3-0 in the Carabao Cup final \u2014 though it would have been perfectly appropriate. I wrote it nearly TEN YEARS AGO, in a Mail Online column on November 24, 2008, after a previous 3-0 beating by Manchester City.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
And reading that column again now, it\u2019s horribly clear that absolutely nothing has changed. In fact, Arsenal have deteriorated.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
We\u2019re sixth in the league table, 27 points off the lead and 10 points behind fourth-placed Tottenham. We\u2019re out of the FA Cup, have just been humiliated in the League Cup final, and face probable elimination from the Europa League against AC Milan. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Last season was Wenger\u2019s worst at the club. This season is shaping up to be even poorer. Yet he clings on, dragging the club he once so gloriously revolutionised into further dismal mediocrity with every day he refuses to quit.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
As Arsenal legend Ian Wright put it so well on Sunday: \u2018Watching Wenger now is like witnessing the ageing Muhammad Ali against Larry Holmes or Brazil\u2019s Ronaldo when he got fat. The problem with Arsene is there is no one in his corner prepared to throw in the towel.\u2019<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Exactly.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Sunday was the latest of many recent humiliations for Wenger and Arsenal. It can\u2019t go on. For his sake, the club\u2019s sake and, most importantly, the fans\u2019 sake.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Arsene, it\u2019s over. For God\u2019s sake man, GO.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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