For all those who see in Arsene Wenger one of the great lights of football there must be a grave fear this weekend. It is that his Arsenal team will be unable to resist the returning force of Manchester United and that in this failure there will be still more evidence that if the Frenchman has genius he also has a crippling flaw. It is, maybe, an ultimately fatal reluctance to deal with the problem that for too many years has deeply compromised some brilliant football. And if this is so, if Wenger's serial refusal to graft genuine iron into the beauty of his football, how savage on his spirit will be the fact that the man delivering another harsh lesson at this critical point is his nemesis Alex Ferguson. The prospect is enough to bring a chill to the Emirates Stadium. It was bad enough when first Tottenham, then Stoke City...
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