16

24

29 Wenger made his debut for Strasbourg in a Uefa Cup game in 1978, a match they lost 4–0. However they did win Ligue 1 that year. Wenger was something of an anomaly in the squad, saying: “When you are a professional footballer, you spend your holidays at Club Med. Me, I bought an air ticket to London. A friend advised me to go to Cambridge where I hired a bike and enrolled on a three-week English course. My team-mates thought I was mad.”