Arsenal: Arsene Wenger And Donald Trump: Peas In A Pod

As London gasped and shook its head and got generally really angry at Donald Trump’s election win, I did what any Arsenal fan would do – I thought about how it all relates to Arsenal.

Politics and football are both about leadership. So what connections can be made between Arsenal’s great leader, Arsene Wenger and America’s new leader, Donald Trump?

Here are three tentative links between the two totemic titans.

Neither of them are keen on Mexicans.

Arsene Wenger has signed one solitary Mexican during his 21 years at the helm of the North London club. Carlos Vela spent seven years with the gunners, making just 29 league appearances. Wenger never fancied him.

And nor would trump. He famously labelled his Mexican neighbours ‘killers’ who bring ‘crime’ to the States and would like to erect a wall to stop them entering the country. Talking of walls…

Wenger and Trump both want to build a wall.

Donald’s wall is very literal. He literally wants to bang a wall on the border between the US and Mexico.

Wenger however, is striving to build a metaphorical wall. Since inheriting the famous back four in 1996, Wenger has sought to emulate the solidarity of that defensive wall and has never really managed it. The foundations for the brick-work look promising, though, with Mustafi and Koscielny.

There is dissent within their ranks.

Several staunch republicans have denounced Trump and, within the party, he is the most unpopular republican leader ever. Even George Bush has refused to vote for him!

Wenger has recently had to deal with dissent from the Arsenal fan base, with several, albeit fairly minor, anti-Wenger protests taking place in and around the Emirates stadium.

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So, there you have it. Politics and football. Wenger and Trump. Peas in a pod. Would anyone even notice if they switched positions?

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