Posts Tagged Arsène Wenger
The Tuesday Portrait: Arsène Wenger
There’s a certain quality that comes into the facial expressions of men who, somewhat battered and chastened by life, somewhat rumpled by it, somewhat the worse for wear, nevertheless retain an unusually clear sense of the virtue that guides their actions. Disillusioned more by the world’s failure to endorse their illusions than by any realization [...]
Parsing Michel Platini: It’s Like Searching for Bobby Fischer, But with Absolutely No Chance of Finding Him
Michel Platini, who has brought pleasure to so many in his career as a football bureaucrat, took the opportunity afforded by an interview with BBC Online today to criticize Arsène Wenger for his tendency to buy young players and…you know, brilliantly develop their talents. “I do not like the system of Arsène Wenger,” Platini [...]
