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'English football is at turning point'

The Premier League has never been won by an English manager - in fact, no domestic coach has guided any team to the top-division title since Howard Wilkinson in 1992, with Leeds United.

So, does English football have an issue with producing top-level staff? Not according to Arsène Wenger.

“I don’t think there is especially an English problem,” he said at his pre-Southampton press conference. “It’s down to the fact that the Premier League’s attraction power internationally and today all the big clubs have foreign managers and that’s basically it.

“Overall, I must say, you have always many Scottish people who have won championships in England as well.