Perhaps he simply didn’t work the team’s defenders hard enough during training.
That’s another simplification on my part, just to make the author’s point straightforward. And it is easy to make such a simplified point, too, considering Arsenal once had formidable defenders, to say the least. One time, a long while ago to be sure, the Arsenal defence was so strong that the team went a whole season undefeated.
A whole season?
Yeah, in 2003-04, that’s 38 games going undefeated, playing 19 teams, each twice, one at home and one away.
Anyways, the author of the article says Wenger’s theories are meant to cover up his team’s own failings.
That’s why he called them “red herrings” in the first place.
Red herrings, you seen, are preserved herring fish. They are called red herrings because they look red, and are stinky. Due precisely to their strong smell, red herrings are believed to have originally been used as bait to train hunting dogs, who are supposed to be able to always follow that strong scent.
Actually, no real hunters are believed to have ever done this – (Dogs are so nosy it makes no sense to entice them with such a strong scent – so overwhelmingly strong it may impair their sense of smell and thus prove counterproductive) but the story, first told by the Englishman Nicholas Cox in A Gentleman’s Recreation (1674) somehow caught on.
Now, red herrings are synonymous with anything meant to mislead and distract, drawing one’s attention away from the basic issue.
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