My Life In Red and White: Disappointingly thin memoir shows how Wenger lost his way

The legendary former Arsenal manager probably has a great book somewhere in him, but this plodding autobiography isn’t it

Arsène Wenger: his autobiography reveals little new and instead offers a slightly pointless overview of an often brilliant career

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My Life In Red and White

By Arsène Wenger

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, €19.99

There’s no mention whatsoever of José Mourinho in this book, even though he faced Arsène Wenger managerially on 19 occasions and their rivalry was easily the second-most potent of Wenger’s long career in football. That Wenger has seen fit to excise all trace of Mourinho from his autobiography tells you plenty about the Portuguese man-o’-war’s personality, but at least as much ...