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

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

We recommend that you check with your local customs officials or post office for further information. Leaving that aside I still have enormous respect for him although I was probably a more outspoken critic of his at times than many others on here . You may, for instance, want to find out the ‘truth’ behind Wenger’s departure from the club, or the rationale behind a number of transfers. As a result, he has done an unusual amount of promotion for the book, with dozens of media appearances, including a turn on The Graham Norton Show alongside Samuel L Jackson and Freddie Flintoff.He changed the game in England forever, popularising an attacking approach and changing attitudes towards nutrition, fitness and coaching methods - and towards foreign managers. 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. Who replaced Merson with Overmars and then Overmars with Pires , who replaced Petit with Gilberto and Vieira with Fabregas and made a profit on every deal after taking their best years for us. 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.

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.Both of my parents grew up speaking German and although I wasn’t really old enough to notice I think both of them had a better grasp of English than Wenger had after they, like him, had lived in this country for 22 years. If Amy had been involved I think she would have done her best to get him to focus on some if the things we would desperately like to have known . I also saw Wenger on the Graham Norton show (and may I commend you for the term execrable, which I think applies equally to the host and the show).

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. I do however, make enormous allowances for the fact that Wenger is not writing in his native language. There are too few insights to keep readers on board — unless, perhaps, they are Arsenal supporters, of the pro-Wenger persuasion. But is still a well-paced and well-thought-out account of one of football’s most iconic and influential figures, and entirely befitting of its remarkable author. Wenger says that he still speculates on what the security men must have thought as he left the building at the end of the night carrying the trophy.He and Wenger while nothing like Clough and Taylor personally worked in the same sort of way in that their skills complemented each other . He speaks with great admiration for those players who made the transition, and who ‘respected the players, the game, the beauty of the game [and] who did not just count on their opponent’s weakness. At one point laziness kicks in and he just gives a bullet-point list of some key players and a one line description of them. During his 22-year reign at Arsenal Football Club, manager Arsène Wenger often gave the impression of a man holding back.

Granted my mother was a gifted linguist but I think Wenger’s obsession with football led to him being so isolated that he was unable properly to absorb the language.They had won three league titles, three FA Cup’s, and had put together The Invincibles season and the 49-game unbeaten run. His apartment consisted of just a bed, a sofa and a TV – ‘so that every night I could watch over and over again the matches I’d recorded’ – and his existence was a solitary one, often cut off from family and close friends. His thought process going into tasks is immense, his determination is relentless and his focus is unbreakable.