Product Description

The paperback edition of the acclaimed bestseller - which received numerous glowing reviews and sold out its 6000 copy hardback run - is fully revised and updated with three brand-new chapters. Based on unprecedented access granted to the authors - including exclusive interviews with Arsene Wenger - the book examines in detail Arsenal's transformation into a global superpower under the stewardship of their French manager, right up to the end of the 2008/09 season.

'Treat Arsenal as an insight into Arsene Wenger and you won't be disappointed.' Patrick Barclay, The Sunday Telegraph 'An excellent work of reference to a tumultuous period.' Independent on Sunday 'fascinating' The Observer 'shrewd and well-informed' The Guardian 'at last a football club that reflects the age' When Saturday Comes

'Treat Arsenal as an insight into Arsene Wenger and you won't be disappointed.' Patrick Barclay, The Sunday Telegraph 'An excellent work of reference to a tumultuous period.' Independent on Sunday 'fascinating' The Observer 'shrewd and well-informed' The Guardian 'at last a football club that reflects the age' When Saturday Comes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1694 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'Treat Arsenal as an insight into Arsene Wenger and you won't be disappointed.' Patrick Barclay, The Sunday Telegraph 'An excellent work of reference to a tumultuous period.' Independent on Sunday 'fascinating' The Observer 'shrewd and well-informed' The Guardian 'at last a football club that reflects the age' When Saturday Comes

Customer Reviews

Arsènal Wenger - successful autocracy in action
This book gives an insight into how Arsenal FC has grown from being despised (outside Arsenal fans) under George Graham to a team loved by many across the world. If like me you are an Arsenal fan who grew up in North London then you will be brassed off with with people still going on about how great the Spurs teams of 51 and 61 were - 50 years from now people will be talking about Wenger's Arsenal teams in even more glowing terms and this book explains how.
The co-author system means that the insight is both off the field from a business perspective (Alex Fynn former Director of Saatchi's and behind the Premier League) and also from the fan perspective (Kevin Whitcher - editor of The Gooner fanzine). There is therefore a mix of perspectives and you hear what happened with inside quotes and access. There is stuff in there for fans of other teams too as it has a broader perspective. If you want to know how a football club has transformed itself, basically thanks to the (successful) autocracy of one man, then you should read this book.

Wenger's Arsenal: THE BOOK
Look at the front cover and you will notice a very subtle but telling grave accent over the è in Arsènal, which pretty well sums up the Club in recent years. And although that doesn't tell the whole story this book pretty well does. It's one of the best Arsenal books I've ever read and I say that as someone whose collection contains dozens of books on the Gunners. The book isn't just about the football played or trophies won although that's well covered. But it also delves behind the scenes into the boardroom shenanigans which have been plentiful in recent years. How can any club spend an arm and two legs on a brand new deluxe stadium and still remain at the top of the tree? The answer to that and many more insights are to be found in this little gem of a book.