At the Emirates, when midfielder Wes Hoolahan was running amok in the first half, Wenger remained seated.
He didn’t react. When his team was getting ripped to shreds, the £8m-a-year maestro didn’t stand up and shout at his players, didn’t tell them to pay attention to what Hoolahan was doing.
A lot of football is about tactics and nullification but sometimes it’s about surprise, about initiative, about doing what your opponent doesn’t expect
These days Wenger is too old and weary.He’s wrecked his legacy. He has Basil Fawlty moments almost every week.
Norwich played two strikers and could have scored seven goals.
Arsenal could have scored seven as well.
When Norwich were 2-1 up, they had a clear penalty, not awarded, plus two good chances to make it 3-1.
Ramsey, Song, Gibbs and Vermaelen were shocking. Very poor indeed.
Szczesny bottled the first cross with centre forward Grant Holt, who was once a tyre-fitter in Cumbria.
He stayed on the ground and threw his punch after the ball had gone!
That loss of nerve signalled what we soon saw.
The overlapping Eliott Bennett slipped in Norton and his pass gave the unmarked Hoolahan a sidefoot effort from 11 yards.
And the tweeting Pole allowed that simple shot to go in off his leg for 1-1.
WHAT SOFT GOAL IN A BIG GAME !
What a fumble by Szczesny.
Was he mentally ready for a game of football?
Then a tidy counter-attack gave Norwich a three-against-two and Holt’s shot hit Gibbs’s foot and looped over Szczesny to make it 2-1 to Delia’s boys in 27 minutes.Gibbs should have got closer sooner because Vermaelen was 50 yards away.
Second half, late, Van Persie scored another two goals to put Arsenal 3-2 up with 10 minutes left.Good goals, the first from Song’s diagional chip.
By then my nervous Gooner pal Kelvin was telling Amanda, his daughter, “We need four to win.”
Then dimwit Song made a sloppy pass that went vaguely towards sub Chamakh and Norwich broke and Morison was played into acres of space in the box by Howson and Szczesny half came and then stopped and didn’t dive at the shot. He’s lost his boldness. A keeper has to make his own luck at times
The gobby Pole’s worst game for the club.
You’re still paying the highest ticket prices in the world to watch a team can’t hold a lead for the last five minutes of a must-win game.
The luckless Sagna broke the same leg again.
Sub Coquelin did OK and got away with a very risky tackle in the box.
West Brom could beat Wenger’s slackadaisical outfit next Sunday.
Arsenal are slack, sloppy, jittery and shambolic.
This lot have dropped 9 points in their last 4 games.
Do they have 90 minutes left in them?
Sparky Shane Long will twist Arsenal inside out in the box.
If the short Long gets any service, watch out!
Maybe a 3-3 draw with Norwich was predictable.
Arsene FC wasn’t good enough to win but wasn’t quite bad enough to lose.
Now they can get relegated from the Champions League.
This was a Bank Holiday result to remember but a performance to forget.
Wenger’s Slackadaisicals 3 Lambert’s Canaries 3.
Two years ago Paul Lambert’s Norwich were bottom of League 1.
Gooners cannot fail to notice how Lambert’s humility contrasts with Wenger’s arrogance.
Doesn’t matter what players Arsenal sign.
The team will not improve while Wenger is there.
Expect more of the same next season.
And more of the same after that.
And then, if you’re still interested, more of the same again.
Arsenal built a stadium but don’t have a team to put into it.
They’ve never really tried, except when the Flamini-Hleb-Fabregas whirlwind put them top for six months.
Sarkozy lasted four years but Wenger has 16 already.
Who’s the superior politician?