"We have only one plan," he said, voice dripping with Gallic hauteur, "and that's to play the right way."Īh, the right way, which, of course, is Arsene speak for his way - always going forward with pace, power and panache, the three P's that drove the Invincibles, the best league team in English history, an outfit that went a season unbeaten, won a boatload of major trophies, always played in Europe and more often than not produced the most beautiful soccer this side of Barcelona. Before deigning to descend from the high moral ground at Arsenal's training center, he looked at me as if I was something that had just been scraped off the blood- and mud-soaked studs of Ryan Shawcross' boots. I once asked Arsene Wenger if he had a Plan B going into high-stakes away matches.
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