Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Can you imagine how this lot would have reacted to the appointment of someone like Wenger in the first place?

They'd have been baying for blood that this speccy French nobody who'd just come from the Japanese league had been appointed. They'd have been calling for his head before he'd even arrived.
I think all of that has been hugely overplayed. I am not expert on european football but I kinds who Arsene Wenger was and I knew he wasnt 'some bloke from Japan'.

He was mentioned in the papers fairly regularly,having a quite high profile job with Monaco and his name tended to leap off the page as it was similar to Arsenal.