Dom and Dumber
May 19th, 2008 by 'holic
It really is just a flying visit this morning to place on record my thanks to Raymond ‘Clouseau’ Domenech, or should I say Raymond ‘Clueless’ Domenech, for leaving out the best left-back in the Premier League from his France squad for the European Championship.
Grateful though we may be that Gael Clichy will be fresh and raring to go again in July, one cannot help but wonder what goes through the mind of the coach of ‘Les Bleus’ in selecting Abidal and Evra ahead of Clichy. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Abidal is not even the best left-back at Barcelona.
I think you can trust the players in the Premier League when they name Clichy as the left-back in their Premiership team of the season. Clearly Dumbenech doesn’t.
Well Done Mr Arsenal
Can I also commend Alan Smith’s article on Tony Adams this morning. Good to see Tony get the FA Cup on his coaching cv. I think I know a top club who could do with a bit of help from a top quality defensive coach who would command respect.
10 Responses to “Dom and Dumber”
Yay! First drink!
The trouble with Adams coming to Arsenal is that he wants to be more than a defensive coach, but I don’t see Arsene moving Pat Rice on for him as Adams does not have enough experience yet.
C’MON TONY!
YOU KNOW WHERE U BELONG!
SORT IT OUT WENGER!!!!!!!!!
come on TA… he could be our best signing this summer…
France will be boring at the Euros, ‘holic. That is all.
Take care.
Nice one for writing a blog basically just on this topic, it really annoyed me when I spotted Clichy didn’t make even the 30-man squad.
While it might not be in Arsenal’s best interests, I’m completely gutted for the bloke. Not only is he my player of the season, but whenever I’ve seen him interviewed on ArsenalTV he seems like a genuinely nice bloke.
I guess the only thing you can say is that Clichy is going to be a world-class full back longer than Domenech is going to be the French national manager, so his time will (eventually!) come…
On the Adams point, I’d certainly like to see him at Arsenal sorting out or defence. As in the words of Adams himself in a recent interview: “far be it for me to criticise the great man, but Portsmouth have kept more clean sheets than Arsenal this season”. That said, Passenal’s point is valid – would he really be prepared to give up the Assistant Manager position at an FA Cup winning Premiership team to nothing more than a coaching role under Pat Rice? Time will tell I guess, personally I suspect it might be enough – after all, he wouldn’t JUST have to coach the defence, and I’m sure if you offered most people the chance to work under Wenger for a few years, it would be hard to say no considering how much you you’d pick up out of working under the ‘great man’.
I hope Tony would accept a step down to temporarily. I mean, Pat Rice is not going to be around forever too, perhaps Tony can take over as defensive coach now (and how we need one right now), with an understanding that he could take over from Rice after a season or two.
As for Clichy, thank god Domenech is a clown. We’ll get him back fresh and raring to go for next season.
I agree about Abidal but Evra? Are you kidding? Evra and Clichy are equally superb leftbacks. I’m glad Clichy was named as the league’s best leftback but Evra definitely deserved the award as well.
I follow the France squad and I’m sorry for Gael and Bakary that they didn’t get chosen but as a gooner, I’m mightily relieved they didn’t. Let Man United deal with sweating over Evra. Why Domenech keeps believing in Abidal I’ll never know.
And France will be “boring” at the Euros? No way, not with the likes of Benzema, Anelka, Ribery and Evra on the pitch.
Well, much in the same way that people wouldn’t necessarily expect Chelsea or Liverpool to be boring but they are, I’m afraid, Marcus.
Don’t brace yourself for exciting football from the France team….
“Well, much in the same way that people wouldn’t necessarily expect Chelsea or Liverpool to be boring but they are”
who in the world doesn’t expect Chelsea or Liverpool to be boring??? EVERYONE expects them to be boring!!