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

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He also dropped interest in Griezmann after the lad had turned down umpteen offers to come to Arsenal . My Life in Red and White: My Autobiography by Ars ène Wenger, translated by Daniel Hahn and Andrea Reece, is published by Orion Publishing, and is out now.

Arsene Wenger and his principled, now confirmed obsessive, pursuit of football as collective art and his belief that it was his duty to support, encourage, facilitate all that was beautiful in the game and its players.Prof Wenger tells us to dream and be truthful, life will find a way to encourage us, inspire us, bring us down to earth and elevate us once more. This was a chance to escape his village life, and ‘step out onto a real pitch, to experience real battles. He was on the execrable Graham Norton show recently and was like a fish out of water and came across as a pretty uninteresting man. I must admit that I was hoping for greater insights into the mechanics of his thought process around player selection, choosing or not choosing tactical variations, creative team chemistry etc.

Wenger describes how he always lost in “unbelievable circumstances” in the Champions League and says that the 2006 final hurts the most and he has never been able to watch it again. Each item comes with an official Certificate of Authenticity which serves as proof that your item is 100% genuine. We recommend that you check with your local customs officials or post office for further information. Among the conditions of these loans was an agreement that Arsenal would spend no more than half of their income on player salaries.Chapter 9 deals with a period when the organisation of the club and the game itself was changing and becoming more complex.

I find it easy to believe that despite living in England for 22 years it took him some time to work out who the “Freddie” was that Graham Norton kept referring to. 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! My Life in Red and White has its shortcomings, often merely hinting at an emotional edge that may if explored further have placed it higher in the football book pantheon.There’s a lot of interesting stuff about man-management and team building, but to be honest, nothing particularly new or startling.

Although he talks in the abstract about what makes a good player and coach, specifics are thin on the ground.At least he is with her now but he and his wife parted largely because of his obsessive ( he says monastic several times) approach to work .