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

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By now managing in Japan, Wenger happened to be in Milan for the ceremony and when he found out about this, Weah insisted he come along, vouching for him to the security staff when he arrived and tried to gain entry without a ticket.

This was a chance to escape his village life, and ‘step out onto a real pitch, to experience real battles. There really is only one Arsène Wenger, and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story!In fact, it was a cigarette and decent English skills from his months spent in Cambridge as a twenty-nine-year-old that got him an invite to David Dein’s house where a most enduring friendship began because of Arsene’s skillful charades rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Although he has a respectable playing career, he is quickly identified as someone with coaching potential and rises through the ranks at Strasbourg and Nancy before being given his first big job at Monaco. These glimpses into the mind of one of football’s greatest innovators set it apart from the blander entries in the genre, and indeed are frequently compelling. To quote the title of TTG’s excellent match report, “Seven days is a long time in football” and as the interlull is 14 days it would be tempting to say it will be twice as long as the interval between our last two league games but considering the Villa result I have a feeling it’s going to seem a good deal longer than twice.

The book is a real missed opportunity, a deeply disappointing effort and its hard not to see it as a cynical cash-in. Given the large number of games AW managed, it is unsurprising that his results trended towards the mean. While he was hugely disappointed to see young players leave – Wenger says it was as if “we were being cut down before the harvest” – he understood their desire to win trophies and how Arsenal’s lack of players with more ”maturity, experience and clear-headedness” was making it appear unlikely that they would be able to do so without moving on.Being one of the most influential figures in world football, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded Arsenal's historic 'Invincibles' season of 2003-2004 and 49-match unbeaten run. I do wish he had retired on the pitch at Wembley in 2017 , FA Cup in hand , rather than negotiating a deal for two more years the following day directly with Stan Kroenke . Biography: Arsene Wenger was born in Alsace in 1949 and was a successful manager in France and Japan before unexpectedly being appointed manager of Arsenal in 1996, where he enjoyed unmatched success. Reviews of classic and contemporary sports books – my personal take on the sports books I've read (and mostly loved). Photograph: Arsenal Football Club/Stuart MacFarlane View image in fullscreen Wenger celebrates Arsenal winning the Premier League at White Hart Lane, London, in 2004.

My answer to the dinner guest question hasn’t changed and I won’t dissuade anyone from reading My Life and Lessons in Red and White.His job in Cannes was the first time that Wenger had left Alsace – there’s a nice story that he made his first signing en route to the South, when after arranging to meet the player in a motorway services, they played four-on-four and one-on-one games of football by way of audition. Managers more comfortable with creating their own legend, in particular Jose Mourinho, are notable by their absence. With luck, when Mikel comes to retire and publish his autobiography, this bar will be so well established that the publishers will approach us. Hild also noticed the latent coach in Wenger and offered him the position of Training Academy coach while he continued to play in the first team.