Wenger: It’s A Witch Hunt, I Tell You! A Witch Hunt!
By: chris | November 27th, 2007
If you were to give a listing of job security rankings in the Prem, Sir Alex Fergie and Arsene Wenger would be 1a. and 1b. Normally we’d throw Rafa Benitez up top somewhere but this week’s little “you shut up!”, “no, you shut up!”, “no, you double shut up!” tiff with his American employers has bumped him down a little (not too much, the man is a magician after all). But that hasn’t stopped the Fenomenal Frenchmen from speaking his mind (Arsene? Never!) about the recent rash of gaffers left without a means with which to put food on the table for their starving young’uns (rumor has it he feels awfully terrible for the Mourinho children, whose papa can barely get by on his severance package).
In fact, Arsene is so disenchanted with the firings of late that he has compared it to the witch hunts of yore:
“It just looks like you are quicker burnt in the place of the village now than before,” he said. “The fire is always raging. Maybe there’s an analysis to do about that in the modern game.”
Arsene asks, and Arsene receives. Here’s your “analysis” from the international team of researchers here at The Offside.
Manager Sacked - Analysis
Billy Davies - 14 games, 5 goals.
Martin Jol - Hovering around relegation with a bajillion pound payroll.
Chris Hutchings - Winning ZERO games from Aug. 25th to Nov. 5th, including one against mid-table Championship team Hull, while scoring 5 goals in the process.
Sammy Lee - Took a team which made the UEFA Cup last year, no small feat in the Prem, to a record with 1 win, 2 draws, and 7 losses, placing them firmly at the bottom of the English topflight heap.
Jose Mourniho - Had to deal with Roman Abramovich. (And I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet but Avram is getting some damn fine results, Mr. Not-So-Special-One.)
So, Arsene, in concluding our analysis we have deduced there is one overwhelming reason for this witch hunt: they sucked.
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Perhaps he doesn’t understand how witch hunts work. Rather than cushy severance packages, people usually got killed. :p
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Good call.
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Have to feel sorry for Billy Davies though. It’s impossible to do much more than take a beating every week with the squad they’ve got. In some ways he overperformed by getting Derby promoted and then paid the price for it.
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Good point, Johnny — could you get Arsene a memo on that?
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