Little Englander Wenger Worried About All The Foreigners In English Football

Doesn’t really make sense does it? A Frenchman who has probably played a bigger part in bringing multitudes of foreign players into the English game over his ten year spell in charge of Arsenal than any other coach or manager and now he’s the one speaking out about the English game losing it’s English identity.

Come on Arsene, it might be an easy pop to have at the great evils of American held Old Trafford and Russian controlled Stamford Bridge but to try and take the moral high ground on issues of foreign influence in English football is more than just a bit rich when you’ve basically made Arsenal more French than most French clubs and have transformed the Arsenal Academy into a nurturing ground for he cream of European youth talent that you’ve pilfered from other clubs on the continent at the expense of bringing through young English players.

Wenger says:

“I feel the soul of football in this country is first granted by the owners of the clubs. Here, for example, at Arsenal I feel I am really at an English club.

“Traditionally the people who owned the clubs were first and foremost supporters. If that ceases to be the case then the clubs lose something.”

I notice no mention of the fans feeling alienated because of a foreign manager in the hotseat (of course not) or a first eleven filled with no domestic players (I mean that has no impact on the fortunes of the national side, does it?), it’s merely foreign ownership in the boardroom that destroys the integrity of clubs. What a coincidence that Arsenal is still English owned as Arsene says. The Wenger/Arsenal Ten Year Anniversary Love-In rumbles on.