Clash wrote:After the CL final tonight on BT Sport there was a programme with Tom Watt called Football Outposts about clubs who had once been unlikely european giants for a spell before almost disappearing back to into obscurity. It was quite interesting but Watt overdoes the poignancy and the long pause for dramatic effect thing too much as he often does.
Anyway one of the teams featured was the French team Stade de Reims in the 1950s. They were labelled as playing ''champagne football'' and had apparently brought something new to the game.
And then right on cue ...guess whose mug pops up on the screen to educate us about how ''they had technical quality'' ... an ''intelligent technical coach'' ... and were ''the first technical team in France''. All about technique technique technique
Watt then told Wenger how someone he had met on his travels had told him that Stade de Reims were like Arsenal under Arsene Wenger. This was two men clearly in their element. One sycophant getting the chance to suck up to his lord and master ... and the other getting his massive ego nicely massaged by one of his disciples.
Later in the programme someone mentions Wenger's name when thinking of examples of those who are ''football masterminds''
And so despite years of mis-management and underachievement, Wengers reputation in the game is largely undamaged.
His reputation is largely undamaged as he's consistently finished in the top 4 in his 20 year stint. Only Bayern Munich can better that during the same period of time, and it wasn't with the same manager.
was it a verbal questionnaire or did the fans that dictate the atmosphere have to put down their selfie sticks and lattes to fill in a form?
