Harefield United

[Rhodes]

Ref Off Ref - Well I would still have George Graham over Arsene Wenger at Arsenal wouldn't you

[Horace]

Ref Off Ref - Well I would still have George Graham over Arsene Wenger at Arsenal wouldn't you

 

Now I know that you're insane!

[Loose]

George Graham was a crook. Equates to Top Bloke in Cliffy's view.

[Rhodes]

Horace - I'm not sure that Wenger could have gone to Anfield in May 1989 and won 2-0

[ref off ref]

After the shambles in Greece last night I'd take Sven over Wenger....watching them was like reading some of Rhodes posts on here, a comedy of errors basically.

[Loose]

Already finished top of the group, presumably it's good management to conserve your best players. I'll try to remember to ask CB his practice lol.

[ref off ref]

Think you'll find CB's practice is to win, win, win, with maybe the odd draw now and again haha

[Loose]

Those seem to be the results RoR but only an insider like yourself would know his practices lol. We'll look forward to years to come of Ampthill being there or there abouts just like Arsene eh?

[Rhodes]

Horace - I'm not sure that Wenger could have gone to Anfield in May 1989 and won 2-0

Anyway under Graham the fans had a far better rapport with the Club and home grown players who actually had time for them, now it's just a load of foreign mercenaries who are only at the Emirates for the money

[syd_lexic]

You can aim that comment vitally every club in the Top 10 of the Premiership though.

Rhodes my dear pain in the ar$e, football has changed since the 80's & 90's. I'm not saying it's changed for the better, because I look back on that era with great affection myself, but George Graham (great manager though he was) would be something of a dinosaur in the game today. 90% of the time it's players being misguided by greedy mercenary agents.

[Horace]

I bet Graham hasn't got an invite to the 125th anniversary celebrations today!

[Karen Browne]

You lost your bet Horace

 

(From Arsenal Twitter)

Next out onto the Emirates pitch are Alan Smith, Anders Limpar, David O'Leary, Paul Davis and George Graham

[Loose]

Better watch the tableware!!

[Rhodes]

I bet Graham hasn't got an invite to the 125th anniversary celebrations today!

Horace - I'm sure he was at the Everton game yesterday

[Horace]

Really? Can you post a link to a pic of him being presented to the crowd?

[Rhodes]

Horace - I didn't say that George Graham was presented to the crowd, I said that I was sure he was at the game. Anyway here's a quote from Tony Adams who can't be far wrong can he having played under both Graham and Wenger:

 

Tony Adams says George Graham is a better coach than Arsene Wenger. "No disrespect to Arsene," he told the Daily Mirror, "but George's coaching ability, defensive structure and technical ability, for me, is far better."

 

 

[Karen Browne]

Horace,

 

Taken from the Arsenal website.

 

14:47 Ray Parlour, Robert Pires, Jens Lehmann, Lee Dixon, Lauren and Thierry Henry are presented. All part of Arsenal's greatest-ever side? Invincibles. 14:46 And there's more! Record appearance holder David O'Leary, Paul Davis, George Graham, Alan Smith, Anders Limpar and Ian Wright all join the party. Wright in particular gets a rousing reception. 14:45 Bob Wilson, Charlie George, Frank McLintock, John Radford and Terry Neill are presented on pitch to the Emirates faithful. Of course, these were all members of Arsenal's great squads of the early 70s. 14:42 But first of all, a group of loyal Gunners are gathered pitch-side. There's rapturous applause for a relative of the late, great David Rocastle.

Edited December 11, 2011 by Karen Browne

[Rhodes]

I rest my case

[Horace]

Thanks Karen. The TV coverage showed several of the above named but I didn't spot Mr Graham.

I have no argument with the view that he was an outstanding manager for the Gunners, but he was disgraced by his financial misdemeanours. Any mere accounts clerk who was discovered to have several hundred thousand pounds of his/her employer's money salted away in an off-shore bank account would have been prosecuted and probably received a custodial sentance. Not in football though!

[Rhodes]

Horace - What has George Graham's financial misdemeanours, as you put it, got to do with him being a better Manager than Arsene Wenger and arguably the best Arsenal Manager in their 125 year history