Jack Opens Up & Owens thinks he is a Pundit !!!!!!!

Jack Wilshere is a fantastic player. The best talent to come out of the Hale End Academy since a certain money grabbing left back. There is no doubt about his potential which is there to be seen.  In an interview he has recently expressed how he felt about critics and pundit writing him off the England’s midfield after the match against Ukraine.  According to Wilshere:

“But it goes with the territory. One match and suddenly I’m not ready to play international football. I’m not any good any more. I didn’t take much notice of it.”

 Wilshere is right not to get too upset about certain critics, whose agenda is always to sensationalize issues and grab their 15 minutes of fame. It has happened to others before and will happen to others in future too. Now a days every Tom, Dick and Harry has an opinion about everything, but people should mind the difference between stating an opinion and stating a fact. Wilshere may have had a bad game but he is not a complete player yet. He is still 21. He had lost 17 months to injury and according to Wenger and Hodgson he is still not yet 100% fit. The problem with England is that they have so less real quality that they overburden every rising star with the task of hauling their lackluster team to World Cup heroics. Wilshere is aware of the media presence around him and he is wise enough not to believe in his own hype. Wilshere has also mentioned how Wenger has helped him improve his game since he was 14 year old.  He highlighted the position where he would like to play in future and currently what his game lacks. According to Wilshere:

"It was the number I wore in the youth teams and in the reserves. Number 10 is the job I want; in the middle of things, moving the ball forward.

"I'd like to score more goals. Right now my goal ratio is embarrassing, but my job is to make things happen, be creative."

The guy knows exactly what are his weaknesses and what exactly are his strengths. It looks as if he is consciously working to iron out the flaws in his game. He should learn to pass the ball a  bit sooner  rather than stumbling on to a defensive wall. He is not yet a complete no .10 as per my opinion. I see him more as a box to box player, who makes buccaneering runs that Viera and Diaby used to make. He has to polish his end products and with time and fitness he will be able to do that.

I, was never a big Wilshere fan (more of a Ramsey fan), but after reading his article and seeing his honest attitude towards the game, I wish he would just silence his critics by taking a leaf from Ramsey’s book. They both are equally dynamic and get in to good goal scoring positions. Last year, Ramsey was also not so prolific but uninterrupted confidence shown to him by Wenger helped him improve his game. Wilshere should take the advantage of the confidence shown by Wenger to make his critics look like mugs and be the player everyone thought him to be since that night against Barca.

In other news there is a joke of a pundit who goes by the name of Michael Owen running off his mouth against Arsenal. He thinks (apparently his brain is one part of the body that never get injured) that Arsenal are not even a top 4 Squad. According to him we don’t have any quality in the squad except for Ozil. He also thinks only a certain Welshman who plays half a season well and fetches a mind boggling transfer fee is consistent, but the likes of a certain Ramsey can’t be.  According to Owen:

“Clearly Arsenal have a fabulous manager, a wonderful stadium and a great fan base. You would tend to give Arsène Wenger the benefit of the doubt but the depth of quality is not yet there in this squad. If Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud went back to being the players they were last year Arsenal would start to look fairly average by their standards. “

Clearly, he forgot to check the injury list Arsenal faces. Even without 9 first team squad players we were able to defeat teams like Marseille, Tottenham, Stoke. He must have slept when our teenagers beat West Brom the other night.  How many youngsters did United use to  win against Liverpool ??? I don’t think Nani or Kagawa can be counted as youths. According to critics and pundits such as Owen Arsenal should have bought 10 more forwards, 10 more defenders , 10 more midfielders in a world cup year where everyone wants to play regularly. It is as if Wenegr has a Crystal Ball and can foresee the amount of injuries that will take place in a season. Even when we achieve comfortable results against decent teams, people like Owen won’t shut up and give us the credit we deserve.  Whether we will win the title or not is another question but he doesn’t even see us in top four.  People like him should not be taken so seriously. I mean look at his moustache. How can anyone take a pundit with that kind of facial hair seriously. Owen should just go home and look after his horses because that would make him look like less of a fool than he is. On a parting note here is a Wenger meme just for Owen.

                                            Come On You Gunners!!!!!