-2 degree Celsius temperature, away from home, against a traditionally hard to beat team, you would want your players to be real men out there and dig in. No matter where I look at the Arsenal team today, there wasn't a single player out there who I would want standing beside me in a dark alley facing a group of yobs. The only one was Sol Campbell and he was missing. Flamini looks like one but he is still young. The rest of the Arsenal team were just falling down, jumping away from challenges and basically looking like they were in need of a hot cup of Milo in Singapore and not playing football in the snow.
To prove my point? Anybody noticed how many Arsenal players wore gloves during the match? Every single one of the outfield players bar Gael Clichy wore gloves. Fucking sissies. In contrast, when I look at Man United, I can see real men everywhere. Rio, Heinze and Gary Neville in defence, Keane in midfield, and Rooney in attack. Those are real men whom you can count on to dig in when the going gets tough. In fact, you can bet your life that Keane and Gary will be wearing short sleeves tomorrow even in the snowy weather.
Arsenal at their best play really sweet free flowing, fast paced, accurate attacking football. But they still haven't learnt how to graft, and that will remain their Achilles Heel as long as Wenger doesn't take a long hard look at himself.
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