When Arsenal sacked Bruce Rioch in the summer of 1996, the first name on everyone's lips as the potential successor was the legendary Johan Cruyff.
It proved a non-starter, Cruyff didn't want a manager's job at the time and in any case Arsenal's most influential director David Dein had set his eyes on a largely unknown Frenchman who was working in Japan, Arsene Wenger.
The reaction when news finally leaked that Wenger would be given the keys to one of England's great traditional football club was astonishment. 'Arsene Who?' was the general reaction. Little did they know the club were appointing the most influential coach and manager the world has seen since Cruyff himself.