The sad truth is that everything one needs to know about sport - or life, for that matter - can be learned by watching The Hustler. It’s the difference between talent and character. Wenger always put too much store by the former and not enough by the latter.

Basically, most Wenger teams were Paul Newman before he got his thumbs broken and George C Scott raped his girlfriend and precipitated her suicide. Truly great sides are Paul Newman after all that.

I appreciate, of course, that if you’ve never seen The Hustler this will make no sense whatsoever.