Yes. A slight change from my other post and also from the blog basis itself but I think yesterdays actions by a certain Mr. Wenger do deserve a little bit of a response.
Respected Sir,
Firstly Mr. Wenger- I am a fan of Arsenal football club for quite a long while now and unlike what you believe the fans are not out for your job. I am in no ways calling for your resignation because I do realise that you have unearthed great talents for us over the year. You are the best manager Arsenal ever had the stats speak for themselves and even though stats are lies i do know that it is because of you that certain youngsters signed for us most notably the Ox that you beat a whole host of Premier League clubs to.
Now that we have that out of the way though Sir, I must protest what all you said in defence of your position. It is not at all odd that you offer no real justification for your actions choosing rather to stamp your authority over the entire situation. With due respect sir, this is not your personal fiefdom. You are not the alpha and the Omega and you do certainly need to justify your actions to fans that pay to see the side play rather than offer quite odd defences. If you had said, that it was a mistake I think we all would have forgiven you, just as we have over the past years. I submit to you sir, we have shown more faith in you and your team then perhaps you have in your own capacity.
The second defence you offered is that a Captain of the Russian team came on for a league debutant who was sick all week and basically knackered. Well sir, if the gentleman was ill all week why start him especially since you have not shown the need to start him for so many months? Does a person need to be ill to receive an arsenal start? Perhaps the most important question is why did you throw a youngster you protected according to your own admission for so long into a cauldron that was this game when he was half sick? Sir, I lay to you a situation where let us assume one defender got sent off and a midfield player got injured. It is not an unheard of situation by any sense and the result would be a change in tactics. Let us say you had to introduce one defender and one midfielder for the same. It would then mean that your final substitution would not be a gamechanger or one that applies any pressure to yhe opposition it would be reserved for this man and this man alone.
In addition to the above being the captain of one's country team is not the defining point as you lay out. There are many teams in the world and many captains, should all start before a genuine talent. Perhaps you do not realise that passion makes you do strange things. It makes people do strange things like play through pain and fatigue. It makes Fabregas dispatch a penalty with so much power it injures him and it makes Oxlade Chamberlain a man of the match on his debut.
One must also see the personnel sir. Arshavin has shown no fight over the past months and even th increased pressure has not shown an increased work rate. Compare this with Eboue who was booed but then because a fan favorite because he showed hunger. Whether you made 50,000 substitions in your career is not the issue on debate- the issue is you putting on a trojan horse.
Sir, the world is not against you. Bring on the players, the young players you have developed- allow them to have a go where the old ones have failed but do not act in the most subborn manner known to man. The issue today only shows your subborness as an individual for some peculiar reason. It must be the fans who one must answer when one is in a position of power otherwise play with an empty stadium with no cameras. We the fans do have a right to be aggreved by your actions sir because we do hope for a win not for playing individuals who are highly paid and underwork according to any standard used.
Sir, I wonder now how you will protect your elder statesman you are so enamored with even after his glaring deficiencies. You Sir, may well have, in one stroke, messed up two footballing careers for life because of your subborness but who am I to question you the master of the universe?
Sincerely,
A Fan.
Monday 23 January 2012
Saturday 22 October 2011
The world
So the first question asked to any Economist worth his salt is questions on the world economy...
The Indian political class is amongst the most brazen and hence they leave no stone unturned to say India is going to come out stronger than ever... I shall not for this article dwell on how flawed this theory is but would just say the safe money would flow opposite to the political theory...
Someone recently said that the world leaders have good reason to hide the problems with the banking and monetary system... heck the real info would send the world down the tube in a hurry yet as an economist their actions offer no real solutions...
In India for instance the government has cut capital expenditure to fit it's deficit jacket...abroad things do not seem much better...
I would like to clearly state that not only Greece but other defaults are going to occur and the world is inching towards severe problems...
In UK and USA social security and government spending is being curtailed... the traditional economists will say it is a positive action yet when spending is cut not only does it affect the margins the most it also means when one doesn't spend the money they didn't have that they had spent previously the market shirnks...market shrinking yet again has knock down effects and the process goes on and on...
Traditional economists also believe the the global village panacea will allow the developing countries to pick up the slack left by the developed countries austerity... In theories with such vast populations it is true but in practice nothing can be further front he truth... It must first be acknowledged that the developing economies have mostly poor people with a few rich chaps among them...this in turn means that the rich from such economies have to number the same as the ones who stop spending in the developed countries...if their numbers are lower then each one will have to buy more than his developed counterpart...an impossibility...
With the above in mind I still say China is the silver lining if there was one...China spent on development projects not like india and hence China's population wealth is spreading...yet if the spread does not result in wealthy individuals then food prices are the only thing that would remain stubbornly high...
India well I do not like the political leadership which perhaps is too traditional in their economic beliefs...
In USA well Obama's popularity rating say it all...the Republicans aren't going to allow him a chance to breathe....
UK well that's a bit different to USA... David Cameron came in and did all he promised...the new labour is still floundering not sure if it should go back to old school or remain new and play into Cameron's hands...while Cameron's reign is not as exciting as perhaps it should be he plugs away the interesting question remains about labour...I believe junking the Blair Brown movement and going back to the old constituency would indeed be better for them politically...I do believe they will find many more voters there than their current position...good for the world though maybe not...
Europe well Europe is almost certainly going to be the tipping point for my prediction of bad days ahead if it does come..Europe can't seem to rely on anything except a certainty of fighting everytime the big guns meet...it seems implausible the euro disintegrates but stranger things have happened and my bet would be a German pull out rather than Greek removal...
The Indian political class is amongst the most brazen and hence they leave no stone unturned to say India is going to come out stronger than ever... I shall not for this article dwell on how flawed this theory is but would just say the safe money would flow opposite to the political theory...
Someone recently said that the world leaders have good reason to hide the problems with the banking and monetary system... heck the real info would send the world down the tube in a hurry yet as an economist their actions offer no real solutions...
In India for instance the government has cut capital expenditure to fit it's deficit jacket...abroad things do not seem much better...
I would like to clearly state that not only Greece but other defaults are going to occur and the world is inching towards severe problems...
In UK and USA social security and government spending is being curtailed... the traditional economists will say it is a positive action yet when spending is cut not only does it affect the margins the most it also means when one doesn't spend the money they didn't have that they had spent previously the market shirnks...market shrinking yet again has knock down effects and the process goes on and on...
Traditional economists also believe the the global village panacea will allow the developing countries to pick up the slack left by the developed countries austerity... In theories with such vast populations it is true but in practice nothing can be further front he truth... It must first be acknowledged that the developing economies have mostly poor people with a few rich chaps among them...this in turn means that the rich from such economies have to number the same as the ones who stop spending in the developed countries...if their numbers are lower then each one will have to buy more than his developed counterpart...an impossibility...
With the above in mind I still say China is the silver lining if there was one...China spent on development projects not like india and hence China's population wealth is spreading...yet if the spread does not result in wealthy individuals then food prices are the only thing that would remain stubbornly high...
India well I do not like the political leadership which perhaps is too traditional in their economic beliefs...
In USA well Obama's popularity rating say it all...the Republicans aren't going to allow him a chance to breathe....
UK well that's a bit different to USA... David Cameron came in and did all he promised...the new labour is still floundering not sure if it should go back to old school or remain new and play into Cameron's hands...while Cameron's reign is not as exciting as perhaps it should be he plugs away the interesting question remains about labour...I believe junking the Blair Brown movement and going back to the old constituency would indeed be better for them politically...I do believe they will find many more voters there than their current position...good for the world though maybe not...
Europe well Europe is almost certainly going to be the tipping point for my prediction of bad days ahead if it does come..Europe can't seem to rely on anything except a certainty of fighting everytime the big guns meet...it seems implausible the euro disintegrates but stranger things have happened and my bet would be a German pull out rather than Greek removal...
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