Yes, Arsenal are struggling but sensible people should be defending Wenger now By Gary Neville PUBLISHED: 00:00 GMT, 16 December 2012 | UPDATED: 00:00 GMT, 16 December 2012
When I started out as a pundit I was given a piece of advice from someone in whom I place an awful lot of trust. ‘The key to being good in the media is to ensure you don’t get embroiled in every single little piece of comment and opinion,’ he said. ‘Don’t spend the day listening to the talkshows. Don’t read every single paper. Keep your opinions fresh.’ Of course, I have to be across news stories like never before but you can get distracted by the noise of football and it can start to warp your thinking. It has been an enormous change for me to be inserted into that fast-moving, frantic media world when, at the club where I played, I was working in a dressing room that was like a sanctuary, protected from the whirlwinds and thunderstorms of the outside world.
Why always him? Mario Balotelli was one of the talking points this week, storming off at the Etihad after being hauled off by Roberto Mancini And the past week has been full of those types of storms. On Sunday we were talking about diving yet again after Santi Cazorla against West Brom. On Monday the headlines were all about Mario Balotelli and his performance the day before against Manchester United, when other players were much worse than him. It was that or the issue of netting at games because Rio Ferdinand had been struck with a coin in that Manchester derby. Then we moved on to Bradford beating Arsenal and the fact that Arsene Wenger has to go … again. On Thursday, racism reared its ugly head again, with the verdict on the Serbian FA. And then on Friday I was looking down my Twitter timeline and there was a question from an Arsenal fan: ‘What do you think of George Graham’s comments that Arsenal will never win the title again?’ And I’m thinking: ‘That can’t be right?’ So I went online to check and it’s there in the newspaper as clear as day — George Graham is quoted as saying: ‘Will they [Arsenal] win the league again? I can’t see it.’
The dark side of the moon: Arsene Wenger watches as his side crash out of the Capital One Cup at Bradford The speed at which the football media operate today is like a blender that is constantly having food chucked into it and chopped into a thousand pieces but never has any end product. There’s never any substance at the end of the process. Or it’s like a sausage machine that just churns out more mincemeat rather than sausages. Sorry... We are currently experiencing some technical difficulties with this section of our site. We are doing everything we can to resolve this as soon as possible. Other sections of the site are not affected by this. You can continue to navigate through other pages.
When I started out as a pundit I was given a piece of advice from someone in whom I place an awful lot of trust. ‘The key to being good in the media is to ensure you don’t get embroiled in every single little piece of comment and opinion,’ he said. ‘Don’t spend the day listening to the talkshows. Don’t read every single paper. Keep your opinions fresh.’ Of course, I have to be across news stories like never before but you can get distracted by the noise of football and it can start to warp your thinking. It has been an enormous change for me to be inserted into that fast-moving, frantic media world when, at the club where I played, I was working in a dressing room that was like a sanctuary, protected from the whirlwinds and thunderstorms of the outside world.
Why always him? Mario Balotelli was one of the talking points this week, storming off at the Etihad after being hauled off by Roberto Mancini And the past week has been full of those types of storms. On Sunday we were talking about diving yet again after Santi Cazorla against West Brom. On Monday the headlines were all about Mario Balotelli and his performance the day before against Manchester United, when other players were much worse than him. It was that or the issue of netting at games because Rio Ferdinand had been struck with a coin in that Manchester derby. Then we moved on to Bradford beating Arsenal and the fact that Arsene Wenger has to go … again. On Thursday, racism reared its ugly head again, with the verdict on the Serbian FA. And then on Friday I was looking down my Twitter timeline and there was a question from an Arsenal fan: ‘What do you think of George Graham’s comments that Arsenal will never win the title again?’ And I’m thinking: ‘That can’t be right?’ So I went online to check and it’s there in the newspaper as clear as day — George Graham is quoted as saying: ‘Will they [Arsenal] win the league again? I can’t see it.’
The dark side of the moon: Arsene Wenger watches as his side crash out of the Capital One Cup at Bradford The speed at which the football media operate today is like a blender that is constantly having food chucked into it and chopped into a thousand pieces but never has any end product. There’s never any substance at the end of the process. Or it’s like a sausage machine that just churns out more mincemeat rather than sausages. Sorry... We are currently experiencing some technical difficulties with this section of our site. We are doing everything we can to resolve this as soon as possible. Other sections of the site are not affected by this. You can continue to navigate through other pages.
