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Author:
Arsène Wenger
Publisher:
Chronicle Prism
Date:
November 10, 2020
The ex-chief of Arsenal Football Club (London) charts his rise to become one of the most successful soccer managers of all time, including his studious take on the game, his groundbreaking approach to fitness and nutrition, his ability to spot young talent and more.
What The Reviewers Say
... engrossing, surprisingly poignant and often exasperatingly buttoned-up.
There are a million questions that Arsenal fans would want Wenger to answer. The answers, unfortunately, are either missing altogether from My Life in Red and White, or expressed in a way that is long familiar to us.
Leaving [José ] Mourinho out of his life story is like Balzac leaving Vautrin out of Père Goriot: it removes one of the essential engines of the plot. It also deprives us of one of the story’s most interesting characters. Wenger has explained that he wanted the book to be 'positive', which, from the reader’s point of view, is not the best motivation for writing a memoir.
... boring.
