Imagine this scenario:
Arsene Wenger boasts all season his side will win the league. He regularly claims that his squad is one of the best in the Premier League and even as good as recent champions Manchester United and Chelsea.
Wenger takes his side to the Bernabeu to face Real Madrid and claim that it is a game they can win and that they can go all the way.
Instead his side crashes 4-0. His side is not challenging for the title as he predicted but is actually fifth.
His side is in real danger of dropping out of the Top 4 and could even face a nasty surprise for the fifth spot as Liverpool finds some form at last.
What would be the media reaction?
I am sure they would be calling for his head immediately.
talkSport would humiliate him and call him a joke. The Telegraph will get on their high horses and ask the Frenchman with "the dirtiest side in English history" to do the honorable thing and leave.
This has not happened to Dirty Harry though.
The tabloid hero did not endure a rough week from the media. I don´t mind constructive criticism but it has to be applied fairly to all.
What is not acceptable is for Sky Sports to run week long of criticisms against Wenger after the Barca defeat and then to be in mourning mode after the Real-Spurs game.
I waited all week to read serious articles questionning Dirty Harry but all I found was a couple of pieces here or there. Nothing vicious, like we have seen against Wenger- whose side is still second in the league.
When you contrast the media treatments of Wenger and Redknapp, you really have to ask yourself questions about the standards being applied by journalists.
