My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography

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Moore, Glenn (24 September 1996). "A graduate of the global game". The Independent. London . Retrieved 15 December 2015. Williams, Richard (22 August 2011). "Arsène Wenger knows but Arsenal are in an almighty mess". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 30 December 2015. Clarke, Richard (28 September 2006). "Wenger 1996 to 2006: The French evolutionary". Arsenal F.C . Retrieved 14 December 2015. Gibson, Owen (6 October 2011). "Arsenal say they would cope without Champions League football". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 12 August 2012. I was at the training ground to interview Wenger the afternoon before the last game of the Invincibles season, and while I was waiting for him in his office, a Frenchman I didn’t recognise came in and slammed his hand down hard on the manager’s desk. “Stupid English regulations,” he said. I expressed sympathy. “We are trying to sign a player, an incredible player. Yaya Touré. He has much more power than his brother. But they won’t let us.” It was a story that provided me with great currency among fellow fans, especially a few years later, when Touré was tearing up the midfields and defences of every other Premier League team. It is the absence of revealing stories here that will most disappoint Wenger’s many admirers. When asked at a press conference, shortly before he left Arsenal, whether he was writing a book, he replied: “Not at the moment. Because I don’t like to talk and not tell the truth. As long as you are in work, you cannot really tell what is going on.” One should point out that he is still in work, at Fifa, perhaps the most political of all sporting bodies. What we have instead is a lot of quiet, thoughtful musings on the qualities necessary for management, coaching and playing, with lots of abstract nouns: “The action [today’s manager] needs to take should be based on a three-pronged approach: giving people responsibilities, personalising and openness, through clear and constant communication, based on today’s science.” Roy Keane probably wouldn’t have written that sentence.

Fifield, Dominic (25 November 2008). "Fábregas made Arsenal captain as Wenger tries to heal rift". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 16 December 2012. You have to analyse what is justified and what is not. I was, of course, affected by critics. Because nobody can say he is immune to that, especially when you feel you are giving it your best. The critics started in 2016, when we finished second in the league, because we didn’t win the championship. And I would say that if we finished second in the league today, it would be a huge success. But because Leicester won the On 13 October 2020, Wenger's second book, My Life in Red & White: My Autobiography, was published by W&N, translated from French. Fair Play to Gunners". The Football Association. Archived from the original on 27 October 2004 . Retrieved 3 July 2006. Ridley, Ian (3 May 1998). "The talks that turned the title". The Independent on Sunday. London . Retrieved 26 January 2016.It didn't take long for Arsenal's players to become the fittest and leanest in the Premiership. More specifically, Wenger's training produced players who were able to peak at the appropriate moments in the season - what sports scientists call periodising. The famous run-in in the spring of 1998 was a triumph of periodisation. Arsenal were literally stronger at the death. a b Ridley, Ian (2 August 1997). "The French revolutionary". The Independent on Sunday. London . Retrieved 24 January 2016. Wenger believes that the old 4–4–2 is still the best way; another change that Arsenal will be embracing, injuries permitting.

The pitches themselves seem to go on forever. They are all in pristine condition, like golf greens, meticulously flat and, in the case of two of them, undersoil-heated. Such was Wenger's attention to detail that he instructed the club groundsman to prepare pitches of exactly the same dimensions and texture as the playing surface at Highbury.

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Happy Wenger enjoying his role in control". The Independent. London. 30 September 1997 . Retrieved 22 November 2013. Wenger charged with 'intimidation' of fourth official". The Guardian. London. 21 August 2000 . Retrieved 4 November 2011. An Audience With Arsène Wenger and David Dein". English Premier League (EPL). 8 November 2021. Optus Sport. In later years, Wenger's training regime has come under criticism, given his squad's poor injury record. [315] From 2004–05 to 2014–15, Arsenal's players lost 13,161 days through injury, the most in the Premier League, and significantly more than Chelsea in second (7,217). [315] In 2014, Wenger acquired the help of fitness coach Shad Forsythe to solve the problem; statistics revealed a year later that Arsenal's average injury length dropped more than 25% in Forsythe's first season. [316] Recruitment and spending policy

The Frenchman has also claimed seven FA Cups - the most of any manager - and was voted Manager of the Year in 1998, 2002 and 2004. At first, I thought: What does this Frenchman know about football? He wears glasses and looks more like a schoolteacher. He's not going to be as good as George [Graham]. Does he even speak English properly?" Palmer, Myles (31 March 2011). The Professor: Arsène Wenger. Random House. p.17. ISBN 978-0-7535-4661-1. a b Bond, David (15 May 1998). "Voila votre vie!; How a postcard led to a beautiful friendship". London Evening Standard. p.71. Wenger became the Premier League’s longest serving manager when Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2012/13 season and surpassed his record of matches managed in the Premier League during the 2017/18 campaign.

Arsene Wenger holds the record for the most Premier League matches managed after a 22-year spell with Arsenal between 1996 and 2018. There are a million questions that Arsenal fans would want Wenger to answer. The answers, unfortunately, are either missing altogether from My Life in Red and White, or expressed in a way that is long familiar to us: the English players stopped drinking and eating Mars bars; he used to have his ups and downs with Ferguson but they get on fine now. Meanwhile Mourinho, who cast a long shadow over some of Wenger’s most difficult years, appears once in the book, in a table provided at the end showing his head-to-head record against rival managers. (Wenger beat Steve McClaren 83.3% of the time; he beat Mourinho 10% of the time.)