So is he ready to play for the country? We don't know!

Prof Geoffrey K. Pullum has this sense of humour which tickles and amuses to an amazing satire effect, be it in his lectures, speeches or writings. And I discovered 2 weeks ago that he was actually part of a rock band before he went to university for his degrees. No wonder his Linguistics students adore him to the core.  Here's another witty entry about language use. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2725 In my view, I think Wenger simply wasn't sure, hence he chose to use negations to avoid outright commitements in his statements and left us confused.