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Arsenal: ‘Arsene Who?’ and what else they said of the man who came from nowhere to take over at Highbury
ARSENE Wenger marked 17 years as Arsenal manager with a Champions’ League win over Napoli. When he arrived at Highbury in in 1996 a few eyebrows were raised and nails bitten at the man from Japan:
Nick Hornby:
“I remember when Bruce Rioch was sacked, one of the papers had three or four names. It was Terry Venables, Johan Cruyff and then, at the end, Arsène Wenger. I remember thinking as a fan, I bet it’s fu*king Arsène Wenger, because I haven’t heard of him and I’ve heard of the other two. Trust Arsenal to appoint the boring one that you haven’t heard of.”
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