It all began in a concrete jungle. Raised in the Banlieue suburb of Paris, Thierry Henry honed his skills on the hard surfaces beneath the high-rise tower blocks of his hometown Les Ulis.
Wenger's forgotten how to win, Pep's still learning
The urban centre of his upbringing offered no sprawling fields of green upon which to show off his searing pace with the old kick-and-run that could so easily have seen him race away from any would-be marker.
Henry would grow up on the solid cement and skin-scraping AstroTurf, in reduced spaces which demanded he learn to manipulate it more intricately.