Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Arsene Wenger

Merci beaucoup, Arsene Wenger

A total of 3 Premier League titles, 7 FA Cups and 7 Community Shields have been won by Arsenal Football Club in the last 22 years with Arsene Wenger as the manager. He arrived at the North London club in 1996 from Japanese club Grampus Eight. He changed the way the game was played with his idea of possession based free flowing football. He famously signed Thierry Henry from Juventus in the summer of 1999 and introduced the best attacking formations in the league. But it was the Invincible squad of 2003-04 that brought him fame as they finished the league unbeaten with a record of 49 game streak which still stands today. Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry led the team with free flowing football which is rarely seen today. Arsenal moved from Highburry to Emirates Stadium in the summer of 2006. It was after this transition that Wenger saw a complete dip in the club's fortunes as they failed to win a single league title from then on. The club also failed to win a si...