I continue to be a big admirer of Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger. He reveals so much about what he brought to the club when he arrived from France ten years ago in this interview ( Yahoo Sports ) :
"Our leitmotiv is to win, but to win in style. Frankly, I'm satisfied in a way, as well as surprised, when I'm travelling abroad and people tell me 'We like Arsenal because they play nice football'...That was one of the goals, to bring a bit of the French culture, to make the English game more technical, to force England to look at the game differently".
Interesting to hear him say so openly that he went to England to change the game. Some English might take offense to that but I think that Wenger was right to see that the English game needed changing. Especially when you read about the kind of diets the players had back then:
"I banned those chocolate bars the players were stuffing themselves with...On the bus to Blackburn (for Wenger's first game in charge), the players were chanting 'We want our chocolate bars'...At halftime, they expected me to yell like a madman and I didn't say a thing. They were used to being shouted at."
That's classic Wenger. Classy. Smart.
Indeed, why yell?
Wenger has achieved his goals with style.
A great manager. A great person...
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