Man of Honour
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Overly unimpressive performance tonight and I am still waiting to see the "new era" that we were promised by Capello after our World Cup performance.
See this is the thing, the coach can be blamed and changed as often as (quite laughably) the fans/people want, but in each case he can't do it with the players he's got or with the pool of players he has to choose from.
As has been said (more often than not by Arsenal fans and Wenger

We don't protect, teach, look for, give importance to, compliment and by and large give places to those guys who have really good technical abilities - that most important factor. It says it all really when Kevin Davis gets a call up (the second oldest debut was it?) through sheer desperation even though we all knew that he's undeniably wrong for international football but somehow right for (and fairly successful) for Bolton. It says it all when there are so many other English players get ignored but Jack Wilshere, who has barely played but a few games for the Arsenal first team, gets called up by both of our sides.
The Montenegrins were big tough lads, but - they possessed a lot of technical skills. They were better on the ball, their tactics and awareness was excellent. They still got tackles in here and there but never was their play dangerous.
Also, our impact men were SWP and Davies, for christ's sake we had Wilshere on the bench, a truly gifted footballer. Maybe I have Arsenal bias but stick him in the hole for the last 20 and he will have caused at least one or two problems, he can actually play football
Agreed, though him not playing, well, gotta say I'm not too disappointed.

Brum this weekend will be another good test for him.
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