Even thinking about him is annoying me. Arsenal have had some garbage defenders over the years, and others who were pretty dodgy at best, but I honestly find it hard to believe that Clichy's name doesn't come up more often when people try and come up with lists of worst Arsenal players in recent memory.
I mean Cygan was massively iffy, as was Senderos, Squillaci was terrible too, Silvestre was garbage, Eboue and Djourou despite promising starts also become hugely suspect, but I honestly think Clichy was no better than any of these, and in some cases he was several degrees worse. He was just lucky that there were always more obvious causes for concern in the teams he played in and his gaffes, the really big ones anyway, were relatively infrequent. This helped conceal the fact that he actually contributed nothing to the side for far longer than should have been allowed.
