Arsene Wenger continues to give football fans all over the country a good laugh as the circus at Arsenal shows no signs of packing up and leaving town.
Most people will have seen Monsieur Wenger embarrass himself yet again on Sunday as he pretended to swat a fly in Kenny Dalglish's direction. This was after Emmanuel Eboue climbed all over – and then jumped on top of – Lucas Leiva and gave away a penalty even Arsene would have trouble defending.
But defend it he did. Not only did he have a go at Dalglish (who subsequently waved his arm back at Wenger) but then showed no intent to shake hands as Dalglish walked off with his integrity still in tact.
Wenger was his usual self in his post-match interview. He manages to see everything when it occurs against his team, even when he's about 60 yards from the incident with 20 players in between. Why haven't Specsavers snapped up Arsene? He'd be brilliant in some advertisements.
Anyway, I digress. I used to have respect for Wenger but most of that disappeared out of the window when he claimed Martin Taylor should be banned for life after Eduardo broke his leg at St Andrew's back in 2008. Wenger made slightly tamer remarks about Ryan Shawcross when Aaron Ramsey broke his leg against Stoke but the Frenchman is always causing controversy.
Birmingham have been a bit of a bogey team for Arsenal in the past few years and beat the Gunners in the Carling Cup Final. A wonder strike from Obafemi Martins sealed a magnificent 2-1 victory in which Blues were the better team. Wenger would rather get his eyes tested than admit an opposition team were better than them.
Since Wenger's trip to St. Andrew's last season (with Arsenal I may add, not a day trip or stadium tour. Although that's the only way he'll see some silverware this season.) Birmingham fans have been 'doing the Wenger' on a variety of different occasions. This involves fans flapping their arms in the air wildly, just like Mr. Wenger himself.
It's a shame really as at the end of the day, Wenger is a top class manager. He's done a terrific job at Arsenal but after he finally leaves the Gunners (hopefully not soon), he'll be known not as a brilliant manager but as a bit of a joke.
The man that never sees anything against his side. The man that has the audacity to moan about the likes of Birmingham and Stoke playing physical football when Arsenal are 2nd in the 'Worst Disciplinary Record League' (Birmingham are 17th and Stoke 11th). The man that with every passing season is losing every last grain of respect football fans have left for him. It'll be time for Arsene to hang up his bitterness soon but until then, we should all revel in one of the biggest jokes English football has ever seen.
Take a bow, Mr. Wenger, but just don't fall over like you've taught most of your players to do.
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