Paper Talk: Joey Bartons view On Arsenal Joey Barton claims Arsenals current crop have no spine or character. Sundays clash with Chelsea marks 18 years in charge for Arsene Wenger but outspoken Barton believes the big bosses have got under his skin. The QPR midfielder told BBC Radio 5 live: You think of his teams of [Emmanuel] Petit, [Patrick] Vieira, [Tony] Adams, [Martin] Keown and all those kind of warriors. You look around the Arsenal dressing room now - they dont really have an abundance of them. At the latter stages of a season they come unstuck because of that lack of - I hate to say it - a real lack of character or spine within the team. Sometimes you need someone to galvanise and that might be a shouter and bawler. It may not be Arsenes way, but I think they lack that. Psychologically, the managers of these big clubs are usually top managers and I think theyve had Wenger on toast. Sir Alex Ferguson had him on toast in the end and Mourinhos got him on toast now. Thats what costs them.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:18:49 +0000