No he hasn't threatened legal action. Don't read Sky's report, read or listen to the original, which is on the radio now in fact. He called Mourinho disrespectful, which is perfectly fair comment, so why Sky want to invent a different quote I don't know. Tabloid journalists, eh?
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If that's not true, Wenger has a funny way of showing it.
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The point isn't how many Englishmen are in the starting line up (because the name of the game is winning, and having a line up based on nationality rather than skill isn't guaranteed to work, quite the opposite in recent years), it's whether an Englishman coming through the ranks at Arsenal will be more likely to succeed than at a lesser club like Spurs. He's got competition from the entire world, and only the best will make it, so it's not a total surprise most of them go on somewhere else. It's often a measure of whether letting them go was a bad idea to see how they're getting on.
As for Pennant, getting done for drink driving twice isn't going to help get you in anyone's first team, let alone one of the Europe's top clubs, so he really should shut up. OK, it seems to help you get into Birmingham's team, but since they now have three Englishmen who didn't make it at Arsenal and are currently second-bottom in the league, that rather supports Wenger's decision to show them the door. The most successful ex-Arsenal youth is probably Andy Cole, and that was a while back when most Arsenal players were British.
In modern football, a club's home-grown players are just as likely to come from Sweden as Stockport. Doesn't mean they are any less worthy of the shirt, as long as the put the performances in. I can point to a few first-teamers who grew up through the youths at certain clubs who don't pull their weight. Evidently, so can Roy Keane (a foreign player bought in ready made, of course).
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one is from Spurs, through their youth team
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Glad you're proud of Big Sol. We'll have Ledley King when he grows up and fancies winning some trophies for a change.