Kick in’s would provide too much of an advantage IMO. Any kick-in in the final third would practically turn into a freekick situation. In fact, would provide more advantage than a corner because of the angle of the kick-in.
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I always thought the offside rule worked best when there had to be “daylight” between the last defender and the attacker, i.e. You had to be fully in front of the last defender to be offside.
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Yeah he basically wants the daylight rule brought back. Except now not sure how ‘daylight’ is going to be measured with these weird pixelated VAR lines.
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Fuck, I finally understand that convoluted statement from Wenger.
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Imagine kick ins instead of throw ins though. It’ll be like when Delap was at Stoke and teams would kick the ball out for a corner instead of conceding a throw in.
Arsenal simply couldn’t absorb pressure for years under Wenger for about the last six years or so.
We couldn’t play without the ball and always fell down mentally when expectation came knocking.
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Signing Elneny in January that season demonstrated the clubs ambition at the time despite being in a prime position to get over the line.
The 3-3 draw with West Ham was shambolic too.
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Lmao yeah as opposed to the teams just spending billions to win. Bruh it ain’t that deep. Give Arsene City’s budget or United’s and we woulda won a lot more. Easy to say the team was mentally weak when we are buying Elneny and Chamakh types and still competing for titles but coming up short lmaoooo 
Ya know why Klopp won? Cuz he spent 80m on the best cb in the world. Ya know why SAF won a lot? Cuz he spent more on a CB than our entire transfer record up until a few years ago. Ya know why Pep wins? Cuz City have spent over a billion in transfer fees. It’s not rocket science, and we don’t need Sigmund fucking Freud’s psychoanalysis of Manuel Almunia to explain why we weren’t winning titles in those days homeboy 
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From memory Giroud header from an Ozil free kick gave us a 1-0 lead.
Don’t be a dick. We shouldn’t of been getting rolled over like we did on them occasions. Had more than enough talent to compete and not be getting whacked out the park. Same as Europe the tactics were crap. The game plan sussed a week before by opposition.
Hide behind this imaginary nonsense all you like but the players got overrun and lost without an ounce of guidance because Wenger wouldn’t and in the end couldn’t understand the modern day game.
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Very disingenuous to blame it all on Wenger.
No there wasn’t enough talent.
Anyone who think we had enough talent to fend off big clubs despite our injury troubles is just being dishonest.
We were bested by likes of Bayern, Barcelona and likes in Europe. We were never going to win the CL with the players we had.
Players we had were not even Top4 quality as proven post Wenger.
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Talking about the hidings and poor European showings.
Remind me how many Top 4 finishes post Wenger we had with these so called “had more than enough talent”?
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That’s not the argument.
It is. If the insinuation is that the players were not the problem and the problem is the manager.
So tell me what is this club achieving with the players which were not the problem?
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Let me check it for you.
We are in midtable for two consecutive seasons. That’s what these players are. And to be honest, this is the natural position for this club.
Wenger did this club a favour keeping it relevant with a mediocre squad for more than a decade.
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It’s not the argument. That’s the argument you want it to be about.
This is the argument.
You want the squad which whimped out against Olympiacos at home to be at level with Bayern and Barcelona
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Was the squad Liverpool had making two European cup finals any better than most Wenger squads. Obviously not. The difference was Benitez.
You give Rafa them Arsenal squads he does better than Wenger even in the Emirates era.
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Outliers are not the norm
Next you will bring up Leicester