L'Equipe's Interview of Arsene Wenger

Le Professeur est le philosophe aussi.  Really, you have to read this interview, translated in Arseblog.  Is it any wonder his men will do anything he asks?  I've long admired his outlook on the game and his obvious respect for his players.  Just look what he did for Kolo Toure when he was in trouble for having a banned substance in his body.  He volunteered a plausible innocent explanation--though Toure had left for Manchester City some time ago.  He still kept in contact and still tried to help him.  Former players don't speak ill of him and he doesn't speak ill of them.  This interview doesn't go into that, but it sheds light on the workings of one of the finest minds ever to manage a football club, and a truly impressive intellectual who just happens to have devoted his life to football.