He offers studious reflections on the game and his groundbreaking approach to motivation, mindset, fitness and football that was often beautiful to watch.

He tells us that he sees FIFA’s roles as: organising competitions; being custodian the Laws of the game; and education, and that he sees his role principally as educational. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this chapter about Japanese culture – I liked the story about how Wenger saved his interpreter’s job – but this review is getting far too long.A trained economist, developer of young talent and winner of multiple premiership titles, he presented an intellectual image that was unique to English football. Wenger praises all his players, some more than others — the French players of the Invincibles stand out: Henry, Petit, Pires, Vieira — and finds excuses when his teams underperform. The book was better than I expected all about Arsene Wenger early career up till the departure from Arsenal. Seller sent me a completely different item to that which was listed, a cheap fruits of the loom hat with wonky embroidery.

Football was already dominating his waking, and sleeping, moments beyond the boundaries of what his peers and elders considered a deeply invested endeavour, but a pastime nonetheless—was he aware back then how it would soon become his only religion, he wonders—and there was in him a sort of restlessness and impatience to go beyond the confines of the village and everything he, and so many from the village, had ever known. Sadly, the chapters on his time at Monaco, in Japan and mostly Arsenal stay at a very surface level. Registered address Unit 7, Airfield Industrial Estate, Airfield Way, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 3PE. His thought process going into tasks is immense, his determination is relentless and his focus is unbreakable.After the match, striker Ian Wright, hurt by the criticism, yelled obscenities out of the window at the departing crowd and was spoken to by the police. How do you circle your arms around a 22-year career; how, more importantly, can you crystallise the essence of a person’s impact on you when it is as lasting and as potent as this one? He does not talk too much about individual players or specific matches preferring to explain his philosophy towards the beautiful game and how he never ceased to set higher aspirations culminating in the 2003/04 "invincibles" season. This book is a must-read for not only Arsenal supporters but football fans everywhere, as well as business leaders and anyone seeking the tools for success in work and life.