WENGERISM: VINDICATED!!!

A couple of hours into the morning, I starred at the horrific interview granted by Michele Platini, the very unpopular President of UEFA and in amazement, took in a lot of the very ferocious attack targeted at Arsene Wenger. The very interesting point being that he was interested in footballing matters and Wenger on business.

It shocked Wenger himself and his immediate response didn’t betray that reaction. Over the last couple of months and in fact throughout the short tenure of Platini’s taking over the helm of UEFA, he has shown an utter disrespect of Mr. Wenger and on different occasions has blamed him for helping football in Europe go the wrong way. From the accusation of killing the ability of clubs in small countries by picking their best talent at very young ages, to the inability of fielding English players in his first team and so on and so forth. Wenger has tried his best to respect Platini’s position at Europes  football governing body and refrained from going at him when necessary to curb the now growing trend of blaming him for England’s woes at international level.

Last night, the response was swift, beautiful and damning of Platini and his bandwagon, in the most footballing reply to his early morning tirade. As has been the practice and principle for wenger, he named and indeed fielded the youngest side at in the Carling Cups history (average age of 19), consisting a crop of some of the finest prospects of British and international football. Mark Randall, Jack Wilshere, Gavin Hoyte, Kieran Gibbs, Emmanuel-Thomas, Henri Lansbury showed that England and indeed Britain has some of the brightest youngsters in football, Alexander Song (Cameroon), Johan Djourou (Switzerland), Carlos Vela (Mexico), Nicklaus Bendtner (Denmark), Fran Merida(Spain) and the oldest on the pitch for Arsenal, Lukas Fabianski (Poland)(23 years of age), showed that Arsene Wenger was more interested in footballing matters, as he has defied the pressure and temptation for big money business in the transfer market, by sticking to his policy of spotting and grooming of young players to play some of the most amazing football the world has seen. It must have hurt Platini too, that he was not at the Emirates as part of a Fifty Six Thousand crowd (who paid just GBP10) to watch live an entertaining display by Arsene’s young guns.

It won’t be the last opportunity for Platini to hop on a plane to see footballs most purest philosophy at its daring best, during the next round of the Carling cup and who knows, in the coming weeks, the presence of these up and coming stars in the first team games, trotting their stuff in the Premier league and Champions league.

By the way, the result on the night was a crushing 6-0 against Sheffield United, who I think would be asking themselves, if they really should be playing in the Premiership, after winning that case against West Ham on the Carlos Tevez case.