Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - Arsenal FC Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Tim Sherwood is ready for an FA Cup Final ear-bashing from Arsenal fans – but he has offered a ringing endorsement of Arsene Wenger’s management.

Gunners’ supporters love to serenade Aston Villa’s former Tottenham boss with the song ‘He comes from Borehamwood, he ain’t no ****ing good’.

Sherwood has been a bogeyman for Arsenal since he scored the Spurs’ winner in a stormy 2-1 north London victory in 1999, which saw Freddie Ljungberg and Martin Keown sent off.

But before today’s FA Cup final, Sherwood said he is happy to take the stick – and is a huge admirer of Wenger.

He said: “I know the song they are going to be singing, it’s fine. I don’t think the Tottenham fans enjoyed it but the Villa fans will be going, ‘what are they singing?’ They probably don’t know where Borehamwood is.

“Yes I scored against them, I think it was ‘99, past Dave Seaman, bang!

“But they are a great club and Arsene Wenger is an incredible manager.

“You have got to be careful what you wish for as a fan. If you lined up every chairman and director at every football club, they’d all want an Arsene Wenger.

(Image: Stuart MacFarlane)

“Maybe Man City and Chelsea might be exceptions because they have got gazillions of pounds to throw at it. But if you want to run a sustainable business, someone to build a club, Wenger is the model.

“The guy in the opposite technical area is one of the most experienced managers around.

“He is someone I admire greatly, he always sticks to his guns and never changes the way he plays – as much as people try to tell him he’s doing it wrong.”