Wenger failed to fill Arsenal’s holes
Posted Monday, February 28, 2011 by UK.eurosport.yahoo.com
It was supposed to be a mini-coronation for Arsenal, a Sunday afternoon stroll around Wembley Stadium before picking up the long-awaited trophy that would surely lead to bigger and better things.
Yet instead of the validation that Arsene Wenger expected and the chance to get his hands on a gleaming silver pot after five long years, the Carling Cup final brought only abject disappointment and a whole bunch of extra scrutiny.
Birmingham City’s 2-1 victory was a spectacular shock but was fully deserved. It showed precisely what is possible when fear is left in the locker room, and gave the underdog Midlands club its first major trophy since 1963.
While Birmingham was understandably jubilant, for Arsenal there was only an all-encompassing cloud of dejection and head-scratching and second-guessing.
Most galling of all for the Gunners was that the soul searching could only realistically point in one direction: the boss. Wenger has always done things his own way, but Sunday’s match strongly suggests that it was the critics – and not the mercurial Frenchman – who were right.
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