#5 Arsene Wenger’s myopia
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The Arsenal manager is one of football’s greatest ever – despite what Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho may think. With four league titles (one golden one) and eight cup triumphs, his record is one of the finest in world football. Having guided Arsenal from the Highbury stadium to the Emirates stadium – incredibly, at a profit – few people can claim to have the economic nous that Wenger does.
However, the man is also one of football’s most myopic men.
Anytime an Arsenal player commits any kind of rash tackle or ridiculous defensive mistake, he is completely blind to it. Seriously. The man can spot a mistake by a referee from miles away, but it’s his players’ mistake – nothing. That might sound honourable, but the hypocrisy he shamelessly displays when whining about others is incredible. And Wenger, for all of his class, can be a gigantic whiner – he never seems to accept that Arsenal were beaten fair and square, especially not against smaller teams.
His touchline behaviour has also begun to descend into some shameful lows in recent years, with his push on Jose Mourinho being followed up by a furious shove on a fourth official against Burnley. At least against Mourinho, he was losing – but he won this game, so why couldn’t he just wait until the end?
