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six months ago, Arsenal in contention for four trophies - the collapse that followed the final defeat of the League Cup raises big question marks on the film

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many can not enjoy the anguish of Arsene Wenger, terribly visible that his team lost its first home league game of the season against Liverpool on Saturday. The French brought so much good for English football that all fans of the game can be considered permanently indebted to him, but what a mess that is powerful at that time.

Each team, however well managed, sometimes with unexpected problems found. Just under two years, Sir Alex Ferguson, who continue to renew and regenerate your computer is an article of faith, he was so far from covering his central defenders had to choose two midfielders, Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher, in the position normally occupied by Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic. They succeeded so well that he could hardly be blamed for any failure of states to defend the title. But the problem currently afflicting Arsenal - illustrated by the need to play a full-back for a teen center in the defense of his debut with the first team and select two players who know your leaving the club against Liverpool - it seems to be more systematic, a burst of chaos created by something deeper than the crisis of injuries and long-term implications

six months ago, Arsenal in the fight to go all the trophies. The nature of the collapse that followed the final defeat of the League Cup, however, put question marks against all aspects of how the club staff and operations. If this seems a bit shallow to identify the cause of an isolated incident, but sometimes the logic is not completely misleading (see Roman Abramovich fateful decision to send packing Ray Wilkins last November). And maybe the tackle that broke his leg Eduardo da Silva on February 23, 2008 was the time when the fortunes of Arsenal began to take a turn for the worse.

team Wenger had gone to the top of the league two weeks before and the striker from Brazil, Croatia, which was finally established in the first team during the Christmas period, was free to score Arsenal seemed on the way to their first title in three years. After a transitional period, which saw the spread of 2003-04 Invincibles and the move to the Emirates, the fate of the club seemed firmly in control.

Only a year earlier, after all, Wenger went to Anfield with a team that includes young Justin Hoyte, Johan Djourou, Armand Traore, Cesc Fabregas, Alex Song, Theo Walcott and Denilson, and 6 -3 points beaten Liverpool in the Carling Cup quarter-final. The future seems to be in good hands. Despite an injury to a player must not derail the whole team, the misfortune of Eduardo shifted the balance in a way that Arsenal Wenger seemed unable to correct. Beaten only once in the championship so far, it took only 19 points in 11 games last season, falling to third place behind Manchester United and Chelsea.

Less obvious, the director was to make a significant change in the philosophy of his team, relegating Gilberto Silva at the bank. A guard silently midfielder significantly since 2002, Silva's only ten league this season, has been overlooked as captain of the most volatile and William Gallas was in the summer. Wenger seems to consider him too old to 31 years and also in its deliberate distribution to fit the principle of movement of the fastball represented his youth. How Arsenal could do with some of the debate today.

"If I found something in the past 15 years," said Wenger on Saturday, "is what I got good players." Wojciech Szczesny, Thomas Vermaelen, Jack Wilshere Aaron Ramsey and attest to the ability to continue with the manager to identify and develop young talent. At the other end of the scale, we find a variety of waste and the survivors, including Denilson, Traore, Nicklas Bendtner, Marouane Chamakh, Sebastien Squillaci, Carlos Vela, Abou Diaby, Fran Merida, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Henri Lansbury, Craig Eastmond, Kerr Gilbert, and even the song, which do not correspond to the hopes and expectations of fans Wenger. What was their strength became his weakness, and is not likely to be fixed next week.
I have a friend who is collecting examples of redundant verbiage brought public life in the 21st century, as when a politician describes an urban revolt as "totally unacceptable", which means that it is n has no idea what to do about it. The BBC2 comedy series Twenty Twelve, so justly praised by my colleague Martin Kelner in the newspaper yesterday, is an expert in this thread elusive common and you have to wonder if Debbie Jevans, athletic director for Olympic Games London has seen. Asked about criticism of its competitors during the test event for BMX, Jevans said. "We will listen to comments of the athletes will have in mind what they say, is to evaluate and then make decisions in the future." The use of "pass" is prevalent in the lives of companies, but decisions will back? A simple improvement in the BMX event would raise the level of comments. On Friday, when competitors have individual time trial will be an opportunity to say something at the hearing on each of them has been completely ignored.

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