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'The club was brave to appoint me'

Arsène Wenger was in expansive mood with the media on Friday as he discussed his 20 years in charge of Arsenal. He arrived at the club as a relative unknown and started work on October 1, 1996. But what the reaction like to him? He reveals all below: on the club taking a gamble… It was a big gamble because I was one of the first foreign managers who came to England. I think before me you had Venglos, who had not worked out at Aston Villa. So there was a belief that a foreign manager could not work in England. So at that time I would never have imagined 20 years later I would still be here. on the reaction in England… There was a resistance,of course. There was a belief...
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