My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography

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During his 22-year reign at Arsenal Football Club, manager Arsène Wenger often gave the impression of a man holding back. A trained economist, developer of young talent and winner of multiple premiership titles, he presented an intellectual image that was unique to English football. By now managing in Japan, Wenger happened to be in Milan for the ceremony and when he found out about this, Weah insisted he come along, vouching for him to the security staff when he arrived and tried to gain entry without a ticket. I went to Fulham at the start of the 2013/4 season and although we won easily as the team came off as they do in front of the fans at the Putney End the cry was a very animated ‘ Spend some f…ing money!

One of which was how the poorly managed Alexis Sanchez departure was allowed to unravel the way it did.You will learn about the beginnings of a promising football player, about the gradual move into coaching. I know one person who knows him very well and he regards him as an extraordinary person of huge depth and intellect and I have one mate who had dinner with him and said it was arguably the most interesting three hours of his life ( and he is a senior partner in a major architect and has had a very interesting life himself) .

Dein was a real irritant to many on a fairly conservative board but he was a brilliant networker ( if you are familiar with the behavioural psychologist Belbin he is an archetypal resource investigator ) . He had brought in a couple of promising players, but three of the four defenders that afternoon had played in the famous title-deciding game at Anfield eight years before, and the fourth had actually made his debut for Arsenal even earlier. This radical foreigner, with his suits and economics degree, was here to make his team ready for the new millennium: fitter, more skilful and less drunk.The acme was in the 2003-4 season, when Arsenal won the league without losing a game, a feat that seems unlikely to be repeated.