Innovator, revolutionary and all round intellectual. You could easily be mistaken for thinking that people are talking about a great inventor or philosopher when those words are mentioned — and you would be right.
When Arsene Wenger joined Arsenal in 1996 he would never have imagined that his name would be aligned in history with the great Sir Herbert Chapman, an innovator of his own time who introduced new tactics, training regimes and even floodlights into the English game.
Wenger’s story, after 20 years as manager of the Gunners, will always draw such huge interest due to its rarity.