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DISTANT SIREN WAILS
CHILDREN LAUGH
ARSENE WENGER: The meaning of my life was football.
TRAIN RATTLES
Sometimes I'm afraid by that.
To dedicate your whole life to that...
is a bit frightening.
But I have to acknowledge
that it is the case.
PEOPLE CHATTER INDISTINCTLY
COMMENTATOR: Twenty-two years after his arrival at Arsenal...
WOMAN IN FRENCH:
CROWD CHANTS: Only one Arséne Wenger One Arséne Wenger
WENGER: People love you when you are born
they love you when you die and it was a little bit like that.
CROWD CHANTS: One Arséne Wenger.
There's only one Arséne Wenger.
One Arséne Wenger...
WENGER: Everybody said I was great.
Everybody said "Thank you very much” and "Bye-bye."
ANNOUNCER: He's actually changed the face of football
the face of the game in this country.
CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHANTS
WENGER: You realise it's the end of something
that has been a big part of your life.
ANNOUNCER: Thirty-eight league games played...
twenty-six wins...
twelve draws...
no defeats.
BYSTANDERS APPLAUD
CROWD CHANTS: ..One Arséne Wenger.
WENGER: Destiny.
Life is about millimeters...
...about timing.
We speak about "The Invincibles"
but if it's little millimeters...
we wouldn't speak about that.
CROWD CLAMORS
HE PANTS
I believe in fate.
I say it many times, but a cigarette changed my life.
January 2nd, 1989.
My first time at Highbury.
At half time...
I wanted to smoke my cigarette because I was a typical French guy.
A friend of Barbara Dein
David Dein's wife
gave me a light.
Barbara Dein told me
"Would you like to meet my husband? He's a director here."
DAVID DEIN: I have a personal motto. It's the motto of the turtle.
You don't get anywhere unless you stick your neck out.
So I said, "Well...
what are you doing this evening?" He said, "Nothing."
I said, "Well, would you like to come out to dinner?"
He said, "I'd love to."
And that changed our lives forever.
MAN ON RADIO: A sight that all Arsenal fans have been looking forward to...
this is it, the arrival of their new manager...
IAN WRIGHT: Around the time
Johann Cruyff's name was being mentioned.
So you can imagine...
REPORTER: How much are the players looking forward
to Arséne Wenger arriving? — Who?
HE LAUGHS
SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE
WENGER: Perception of me...
was "Who are you?"
"Arséne Who?"
He looked like a university lecturer.
REPORTER: And so comes the scholar...
What on Earth's he got? A Master's degree. Master's.
I know he's from France.
He's Swedish, isn't he? — No!
I know he's a Frenchman.
And I know he eats frog's legs.
REPORTER: Why have you gone continental? Is it a risk?
I think appointing any manager is somewhat of a risk
but it's a calculated one.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Right, and then open your hands.
DEIN: I could see the game was going more global
and I was prepared to recommend
that we open up our horizons to...
to something new.
Honestly...
when I think about it
they were brave.
PHOTOGRAPHER. Arséne, this way, please?
WENGER: There was no history of success of any foreign managers...
MAN: Straight into this lens.
WENGER: ...and I could read in the newspapers
a foreign manager can never win a Premiership.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Last one. - OK, last one. Really last one.
Thank you.
WENGER: I was born in 1949.
Very soon after the war...
at Duttlenheim.
Don't say "town," say "village."
WENGER IN FRENCH:
Physical strength was at the heart of the village.
The guy who had no consideration at all
was the guy who was lazy.
Very, very strong Catholic region.
We had to go to the Mass, we had to confess.
I learned that at a very young age.
WENGER IN FRENCH:
BELL TOLLS
My first memories, the church, the football pitch
and the restaurant where I grew up.
My father was an accountant at Bugatti.
My mother had inherited this bar.
It was one of the three or four in the village
but this one guided my life.
WENGER IN FRENCH:
I started to listen to people
to observe people.
It was a great psychological experience for a little boy.
I realised quickly
that we had problems to win football games.
So I took my Mass book with me
and I prayed during the game.
CROWD CLAMORS
BERNADETTE WENGER IN FRENCH:
WENGER: At that time
you could not marry somebody from another village.
BERNADETTE:
In my wildest dreams, I had always to discover the world.
I went to university.
One year to medicine
two years to economics
one year to sociology
to understand all that exists around me.
WENGER IN FRENCH:
PHOTOGRAPHER: One in the middle, in the blue.
Beautiful. - PHOTOGRAPHERS CHATTER
WENGER: I could sense that the team was looking at me
thinking, "What is this guy? What is he doing here?"
How can I sum him up?
What can I say?
He had a massive jacket on
glasses were massive.
My nickname for him was "Clueso".
It is Chief Inspector...
Clueso.
Pink Panther! We was watching a lot of Pink Panther.
Please come in.
So many cameras here...
I feel like I'm making a movie.
WRIGHT: He would trip up
forget things...
He was just that kind of guy.
SWORD WHOOSHES - SWORD THUDS
GOAL NET CLATTERS
Sorry, my friend.
WRIGHT: There was a time when we played against Wimbledon...
the lights went off, so we were walking back in
and as we were walking back in, he was getting ready to come out
and he said, "What's going on?"
Honestly, we went, "There's a burmb."
And he went, "A burmb?" HE LAUGHS
A burmb!
HE YELLS
EXPLOSION BOOMS
HE LAUGHS
HE SINGS: 1-0 to the Arsenal.
WENGER: It was a monocultural team.
An English block of players
with one star in there, Dennis Bergkamp.
Ooh!
DENNIS BERGKAMP: What he has said from day one
"You shouldn't take the English mentality
out of an English team".
That's what he taught
and expected from the foreign players as well.
To have that mentality.
TONY ADAMS: I ain't got time for transitions.
I don't like that word.
It's a type of excuse.
Look at him. Look at the camera.
WENGER: They were a group of very strong personalities.
Nice one. - I love you, Dicko.
I love you too.
WENGER: A group of men.
They were not always easy.
But on Saturday...
you could walk out with them.
You knew they were ready for a fight.
CROWD CLAMORS
CROWD ROARS
And I'm not singing "1-0" no more.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
LEE DIXON: His biggest asset on the training ground
was allowing his players
to express themselves and work problems out on the pitch.
Good ball, yes.
MARTIN KEOWN: By the time you reach 30 years of age
you've kind of set out your character, haven't you?
As how you wanna play football and how you see it...
and when Wenger arrived
he gave a renaissance, really, for that group.
WENGER: There was a drinking culture.
I always felt it's stupid to work the whole week in training
and then to kill yourself outside the pitch.
I cut that all off.
They had to change their habits.
WRIGHT: It changed from night to day.
No tea, no sugar, nothing.
All you could drink was water and the food what was provided.
Changed it to suit us, so we ain't got no butter or anything in it.
BERGKAMP: Immediately we had success with his way of thinking.
That made the English players realise
"OK, wait a minute, this is what we want".
We didn't know if it was the stretching
it was the vitamins we were taking
it was the new diet.
We felt like supermen.
WENGER: Every win gave me a bit of time.
But when you started to win
it created some adverse reactions.
Private attacks.
Vicious attacks.
I visited my parents in Strasbourg...
and when I came back, I took a cab
and he told me, "Why did you resign?"
I said, "Who told you that?"
REPORTER: He arrived just seven weeks ago...
WENGER: He said, "It's been announced on the radio."
...but now he's at the center
of suggestions about his own personal life.
PRESS OFFICER: ...from ITN, they'll be asking you a couple of questions.
WENGER: So I had to improvise a press conference
on the stairs in front of Highbury...
JOURNALIST:
Sorry?
...to say "I have not resigned.
You know, if you have anything against me
bring it out...
and let's deal with it."
JOURNALIST:
No.
WRIGHT: This obviously started from nothing
but he had to come out and say something.
It really was so callous and nasty.
JOURNALIST:
HE LAUGHS
"Oh, we have photos that are very bad for you."
Bring me somebody who can speak about my private life.
! have a private life, like everybody, like you.
Of course, they had nothing.
WRIGHT: There was a massive negativity
because he was a foreign manager
and he was doing stuff that was alien to everybody.
People are afraid of things that's different.
The natural thing to do is to try and find fault
and try and create, um...
a problem.
What have you concrete?
From me, my life?
What do you know of my life concretely?
JOURNALIST: We don't know anything. - But... But...
JOURNALISTS CLAMOR
Thank you very much.
BYSTANDERS CHEER AND APPLAUD
SIREN BLARES
HORN HONKS
MAN IN FRENCH: — PATRICK VIEIRA IN FRENCH:
WENGER: Patrick was known as a big talent in France
and considering that he was only 20...
it was a big chance for Arsenal to take this player.
WENGER: First of all... - PHOTOGRAPHER: Ready?
...you couldn't impress him.
Ready to go.
WENGER: He wasn't scared of anybody.
VIEIRA: Nobody knew who I was.
This tall guy has come in, really skinny and have this kind of...
strange way of running.
But from the first game that I played with the first team
I convince my teammates
that I can play in this club and I can play on that level.
COMMENTATOR: Here's Vieira...
it's a great run...
he's still going...
WRIGHT: His first touch, his skills, his running with the ball...
THEY LAUGH
"Jesus Christ, that's our player!"
VIEIRA: Arséne of course was really important
he gave me that confidence to express myself.
WENGER: Everybody thought maybe the manager
doesn't know what he's doing, but at least he brings a good player!
And I did bring a good player. I brought a hell of a player, you know?
CROWD ROARS
VIEIRA IN FRENCH:
BELL CHIMES
TONY BLAIR: And this New Labour government
will govern in the interests of all our people, the whole of this nation.
PEOPLE CHEER
WENGER: From '97 onwards
England became more open to the rest of the world.
London became very cosmopolitan.
It coincided with the start of an evolution in the English game.
JOURNALIST: Was it a penalty on Sunday?
Ah, no chance, man. The referee was a cheat.
PEOPLE LAUGH
WENGER: The '97-'98 season
you could see there was something there that was blossoming.
There was an old core of English players
and a new clique of foreign players.
I brought Emmanuel Petit in.
Morning.
WENGER: He was a more defensive player than Patrick Vieira
so the two together, of course, were two monsters.
THEY LAUGH
And I bought a super player in called Marc Overmars.
CROWD ROARS
IN FRENCH:
Nicholas Anelka... wow.
WRIGHT: He was just like an unstoppable force.
CROWD CHEERS
KEOWN: I'd never seen a 17-year-old kid that good.
It was that sort of feeling of almost giggling
at the quality.
CROWD CHEERS
Really high-calibre players.
But they've all been bought by Arséne Wenger.
I'm the king of the world!
WENGER: In the Championship
we were nine points behind Man United.
But the whole team was convinced that we could win it.
COMMENTATOR: Oh, it's Overmars!
He's done it!
The Championship race is still wide open!
COMMENTATOR 2: And Sheffield Wednesday wonder quite what has hit them.
WRIGHT: He was very different because every other manager
even if you're doing well
they have to blast you down.
CROWD CHEERS
He didn't do that.
COMMENTATOR: Three against Newcastle, four against Blackburn
and now five against Wimbledon.
You could see people were fearing us. They feared us.
COMMENTATOR: So close now.
Arsenal chase the one win needed.
The intensity of the experience was something that was unbelievable.
FANS CHANT: Arsenal! Arsenal!
I'll never forget, Tony Adams scored at Highbury on a sunny afternoon in May.
COMMENTATOR: Adams, put through by Bould!
Would you believe it?
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS
Ten straight wins.
They've absolutely roared to the title.
CROWD ROARS
Yeah! What's this?
Hey! - MAN: Hey!
Where'd that come from?
INTERVIEWER: It's difficult to realise what a Frenchman's done over here.
I hadn't even heard of you, actually, I've gotta be honest about that.
And now we're faced with the prospect that you could do the double.
CROWD CHANTS INDISTINCTLY
WENGER: This was a defining moment of my career at Arsenal.
An exceptional moment in my life.
To win straightaway was absolutely vital.
COMMENTATOR: Here's Overmars, could be there for the Dutchman
he's through here... and he's scored!
Boom-boom. The double.
COMMENTATOR: Anelka's away!
Good strike!
CROWD CHEERS
WENGER: I could come, unknown
and win as a French guy.
CROWD CLAMORS - HORNS TOOT
It was a very long honeymoon and it was the start of it.
The real start of it.
HE YELLS
MAN ON ADVERT: Is this your idea of luxury?
There's a hint of history and wealth in every street-side symbol.
But this is the fairy-tale land which flirts with the business world.
Yes, this is Monaco.
WENGER: Monaco, it was the first time I realised that I could win.
I was 36, 37.
In my first season, we won the Championship.
COMMENTATOR IN FRENCH: Balle de match!
Et but!
But I won it with some English players, Mark Hateley
and the super Glenn Hoddle.
JOURNALIST IN FRENCH:
IN FRENCH:
WENGER: Marseille had a fantastic team
IN FRENCH:
JOURNALIST LAUGHS
WENGER: But the rumors were there.
The suspicion was there.
DIXON: That period at Monaco was hard for him.
There was some allegations of match-fixing.
Corruption.
WENGER: It ended badly.
NEWS PRESENTER IN FRENCH:
WENGER: Marseille was relegated.
It was a dark period of French football.
MAN ON ADVERT: Is this still your idea of luxury?
Or has the commercial clamor destroyed completely the memories...
HE EXHALES
What is absolutely unbelievable
it didn't stop my belief in human beings.
Not being capable to trust other people
you would be unhappy your whole life.
I had done ten years in French football
and I thought, "It's time for me to go somewhere else."
WENGER: And this is the name.
Arséne Wenger. — Ah! Arséne!
WENGER: You?
THEY LAUGH
WENGER: You have some managers who are exportable...
and some not.
IN FRENCH:
It's adaptation to a different way of living.
That's not always easy.
WENGER IN FRENCH:
WENGER: I took a team who was bottom of the league...
MAN IN JAPANESE ON RADIO:
...we finished second in the league and won the cup.
I was straightaway Manager of The Year.
WENGER IN FRENCH:
WENGER: Yeah, better.
I was keen to go somewhere and show that I have the talent.
I thought, "I can cope with going abroad".
WHISTLE BLOWS
Yeah!
You see! You see!
WOMAN SQUEALS
Come on! - HE YELLS IN JAPANESE
I could have decided to stay in Japan for a long period.
But I thought I'd come back to Europe if it's for a big club.
I had a clear idea of what I wanted...
and I knew quickly what I could bring in.
CHILDREN SHOUT - DRUMS THUD
WENGER: It's nice through the trees around there.
Unbelievable.
DEIN: Normality's boring, isn't it?
The way he lives his life is not normal.
WENGER: I'm a hermit.
In fact, at night, I sleep in the tree there.
DEIN: He was driven.
Wonderfully driven.
I mean, so focused.
WENGER: I lived in my bubble.
My own little world.
IN FRENCH:
I had only a triangle:
Home, training center, Highbury.
I prepare the game exactly like a player.
I never go out 48 hours before a game.
For dinner, or anything.
You have to sacrifice your life for this job.
PHONE RINGS
Hello?
Arséne...
IN FRENCH:
...One or two shirts.
No problem. - I tell you tomorrow.
OK.
WENGER: People say "obsession"...
but for me...
I cannot even tell you it was work, I loved it.
DEIN: First thing I did was to get a couple of satellites for him
so that he had games coming in from all over the world.
COMMENTATOR SPEAKS GERMAN
WENGER: Germany, Spain, Italy, France...
every night was football, football, football and tomorrow, football again.
Away!
Players who will play...
HE SIGHS
He put everything into it. He put his life and soul into it.
David?
I'm just leaving. I'm going home now.
OK? So I'll see you later.
I know.
Ah, the writer's chair here.
Right.
PRODUCER: OK, Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United manager.
ALEX FERGUSON: Always look in your rear mirror
to see who's behind you.
I mean, you see someone come up behind you, you accelerate.
Alex Ferguson was the dominant figure in English football.
Everybody was scared of him, from the press to the referees.
I've shown great patience with you.
He was the guy to beat. He was the don.
Arséne Wenger's been in Japan.
He doesn't know anything about English football.
He's unaware of the demands of our game.
WENGER: I thought that's a good opportunity for me
to show that it's not only in England that...
you know how to play football.
I was ready for a fight.
CROWD CHEERS
Arsenal were catching us up
and their team was good enough
to go above us, there's no question about that.
WENGER: It was sometimes very aggressive
especially after the games.
FERGUSON: Think he should concentrate on his own job
rather than talk about Manchester United.
It became toxic for a while.
And I'm saying to myself, "Is he looking for a war?"
REPORTER: Arsenal against Manchester United
you expect their strongest side to be playing today, obviously.
HE CHUCKLES Yes, you have a good sense of humor.
When you're fighting to win, you're two lions
with only one desire
is to eat the lion who is against you.
REPORTER: Brilliant, and let's have some more of that today, thank you.
Thank you. We'll try.
I was not scared of anybody in football.
CROWD CHANTS AND CLAPS
That game at Villa Park
was the most emotional football match I've ever played in.
CROWD CHANTS
We were going for a double, another double...
and United were going for the treble.
People say, "Do you miss the game?"
I don't miss the game, but I miss the big games.
CROWD CLAMORS
The Man United players were ready to die for their club.
COMMENTATOR: Sheringham... for Beckham...
Oh! What a goal!
We were sure that we were gonna win the game.
COMMENTATOR: Bergkamp's shot... deflected off Stam, it's in!
FERGUSON: We got Keane sent off.
CROWD JEERS
The drama was unbelievable.
BERGKAMP: We were 11 against 10.
We just went for it.
COMMENTATOR: Parlour's gone down!
WENGER: In the 93rd minute, we had a penalty.
Oh, I thought we were out. I did, I thought we were out.
WENGER: The penalty...
marked our relationship with Manchester United.
CROWD ROARS
The duel.
VIEIRA: If there is a guy that I would want to take the penalty
it would be Dennis.
Penalty taker should always score.
It would've been over for them.
This is strange, but I kept thinking
he was gonna put it in the left hand corner.
COMMENTATOR: Bergkamp vs Schmeichel...
CROWD CHEERS - Oh, and Schmeichel's saved it!
WENGER: After that, Dennis Bergkamp
never wanted to take a penalty again.
VIEIRA: Details make a difference.
COMMENTATOR: Vieira... only as far as Giggs...
I lost that ball.
I should've brought him down.
COMMENTATOR: He'll run at Keown...
and he'll run at Dixon...
Oh! What about that?
DIXON: My heart just sank to the lowest low.
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS
CROWD ROARS
FERGUSON: I don't know if we'd have won the European Cup
if we hadn't won that game.
Maybe we were destined to win the treble that year.
WENGER: I'll never forget the happiness of Man United
when they beat us that night.
I threw up sometimes after the games when I lost.
It hurt so much.
I'm a perfectionist and I'm very demanding with myself.
When you lose a game, you always know
there was a way to win it.
But the defeat remains with you forever.
Women kill for love...
and men kill because they hate to lose.
CHILDREN YELL — WENGER: Hey.
A chaque fois vous m'avez surpris.
WENGER: The way I saw the job
is to influence people's lives through values.
The players must know
that if they have a real big problem, they can call me.
If there are difficult times, I am there for them.
Like a father.
(FRENCH)
— CHILDREN: Merci!
VIEIRA: He has always protected me
and when the manager is defending you
you will die for him.
(FRENCH)
WENGER: The manager is somebody who has to...
think, "I am not important.”
Eh, là, là, là, là, là.
WENGER: It's a special job on that front.
It demands a psychological transformation.
KEOWN: His biggest joy was to see players improve.
The training of Arséne Wenger was on another level.
You know, this feeling of invincibility came on day one.
It was the calmness that he brought.
VIEIRA: When you are talking to him
he doesn't give you this kind of superiority.
(FRENCH)
THEY CHATTER - THEO LAUGHS
This is why I say to young players
"Choose the club by the manager."
CHILDREN LAUGH
VIEIRA: Talk to the manager
he will be the one who will make you a better player.
CHILDREN CHEER
INDISTINCT CHATTER
THIERRY HENRY: Arséne changed my life.
Thierry Henry.
COMMENTATOR IN FRENCH:
WENGER: I knew that from a young age
already he was... special.
HENRY: He gave me an opportunity to shine.
I can never thank him enough for that.
FERGUSON: We looked at Henry, he was outside-left at Monaco.
But, you know, I couldn't see him as a centre-forward.
REPORTER: The French international surplus to requirements at Juventus
Wenger has got his man
although he's cost Arsenal a club-record fee.
WENGER: He had lost something
that is, basically, belief.
The big change they made at Arsenal was...
reinventing Henry.
And the goals... I mean, he was fantastic.
COMMENTATOR: Oh... Oh! What a goal!
Thierry Henry!
I wasn't a centre-forward really
when you watch me play.
COMMENTATOR: Henry...
Henry!
HENRY: Arséne gave me that freedom.
REPORTER: This role up front, how are you enjoying it?
HE CHUCKLES
People in life arrive quite early
at a very good level and don't move too much
because they don't push themselves enough.
You can be a professional football player
but I do want to discover something more
and explore, really, what football can give you.
COMMENTATOR: Thierry Henry!
Wonderful goal!
HENRY: The boss, in that way, is magnificent.
He makes you realise how good you can be.
He allowed me to express myself.
WRIGHT: When you look at what he's done with Thierry
it was frightening.
COMMENTATOR: You can only stand and admire.
WRIGHT: Thierry Henry is the best player that Arsenal has ever had.
ROBERT PIRES IN FRENCH:
VIEIRA: London was really open-minded.
People really don't care about...
what you're driving, what you're wearing
or the color of your skin.
THEY LAUGH
IN FRENCH:
WENGER: In the 2000s
the foreign influence in the culture of England
politically and on the footballing front
started to become very important.
HENRY: Look at the post. Should've been a goal.
- Over the line. - BOB WILSON: It was over, yeah.
Yeah! Ask Bob!
WENGER: We moved from a monocultural team to a multicultural team.
Influences from all over Europe.
It was as well the evolution of the game
because it was more mobile, more technical
more inspirational.
BERGKAMP: He was a fan of the Dutch Total Football...
and I could see a lot of similarities there.
We really started to play football
the way he saw football.
Va-va-voom.
WENGER: I am a romantic.
A pragmatic romantic.
We are in entertainment.
The groundwork is to win.
But that is not enough.
You need the ambition to give more.
To go deeper into what the game can give to people.
— Fingers crossed. - Ta-ta.
WOMAN: Cheers, mate. Bye. -WOMAN 2: See ya!
WENGER: To get something more
than just the individual expression of a player.
Gonna watch the champions tonight?
WENGER: But the collective expression of the team
to transform it into art.
WENGER: You can say it's naive
but you need to give something special to people
to get out of their hard daily life.
COMMENTATOR: It is nigh on perfect!
CROWD CHANTS
WENGER: I just wanted them to sit in that seat
and think...
"Unbelievable."
COMMENTATOR: Freddie Ljungberg!
CROWD ROARS
COMMENTATOR: This is Bergkamp... oh, wonderful skill from Dennis Bergkamp!
What a superb goal!
Pires...
he's in here, still Robert Pires...
oh, what a wonderful goal! - CAR HORN TOOTS
WENGER: 2002...
maybe we played the most spectacular football ever.
COMMENTATOR: And Ljungberg...
He's in again! Pushed out by Barthez!
Wiltord! - CROWD ROARS
They've taken the title away from Manchester United.
WENGER: You need to have that desire
to give something more.
CROWD CHANTS AND SINGS
FANS SING: We won the league in Manchester
We won the league and cup double
We won the league in Manchester.
WHISTLES BLOW - HORNS TOOT
CROWD CHANTS - HORNS BLARE
WENGER: The influence you have on people's lives
is to show them a little light
of what is their next level.
To go for something bigger.
So in 2002...
I set them a target
and that was to win the Championship without losing a game.
CROWD ROARS
THEY LAUGH
We said, "He's losing his mind, he's losing his head.
What is he talking about?"
I looked at the TV, I was like, "Why?"
(FRENCH)
Of course, the media had a real go at me
they think it was arrogant.
JOURNALIST: Did you say “I want to go the whole season unbeaten"?
JOURNALIST 2: Do you think it's possible...
JOURNALIST 3: Is that record within your grasp?
JOURNALIST 4: Do you regret saying you could go the whole season unbeaten?
WENGER: I have no regrets at all about that.
We didn't win the Championship.
So I told them again
"I still think you can do it"
because I was so much attacked by everybody
that I thought, "Really, this time, we have to do it."
HE CHUCKLES
HORSES CLOP
INDISTINCT CHATTER
VIEIRA: He had this kind of vision about...
what this team can achieve
putting all our strengths together.
Thinking that we would go through the season unbeaten
was something that not even crossed our minds.
He must've weighed that up.
You know, the consequences of saying that publicly
but he genuinely believed that.
And that's what Arséne was trying to do.
"Are we capable?"
WENGER: I had the ambition to do it.
COMMENTATOR: Now Henry...
brilliant save!
Pires! Goal!
And I had the doubt as well.
To get impossible targets...
put the seed in their brains...
and wait until it comes out.
The more the dream looks impossible
the more it can strengthen your motivation.
THUNDER RUMBLES
JOURNALIST: There's no love lost between the two sides
are you concerned that the match itself
could degenerate in any shape or form?
WENGER: No, not at all.
FERGUSON: Now, these are the kind of games that come back to haunt you.
It was us and Arsenal, us and Arsenal.
I think the intensity between both clubs
meant we knew we had to beat each other.
You know if you go to Man United, you cannot lose
if you want to win the Championship.
CROWD CLAMORS IN DISTANCE
I liked it because the football was rougher.
The challenges were tougher.
WHISTLE BLOWS
It was a question of "It's you or me."
You can't leave you character in the dressing room.
It goes out on the pitch with you
and Arsenal had to compete with that
and they did very well at it.
VIEIRA: It went to a different level
because they are feeling that...
we are close to them.
CROWD ROARS - WHISTLE BLOWS
And there was an incident.
WHISTLE BLOWS
COMMENTATOR: Vieira kicking out there!
WENGER: Van Nistelrooy made more of it
than it was, of course.
But it was normal. It was United. HE LAUGHS
Patrick tried to kick him.
COMMENTATOR: Steve Bennett thinks that he did.
Even though he didn't make contact
the intent was there.
COMMENTATOR: He's off! - CROWD CHEERS
VIEIRA: I was so mad, I was so...
crazy in my head that...
I was against the referee and United.
CROWD BOOS
Then we had to survive.
KEOWN: The game changed completely.
You don't wanna be the weakness, you don't wanna be the weak link.
You don't wanna let anyone down.
COMMENTATOR: In towards Forlan...
Manchester United want a penalty...
WHISTLE BLOWS - ...and they've got one!
KEOWN: I've given the penalty away.
It's all on me.
I was thinking it's a robbery.
We can lose this game now.
It's unbelievable.
(FRENCH)
Never had a doubt when
Van Nistelrooy had to take an important penalty.
100% confident.
WENGER: What did I say?
Destiny.
At that moment, you have no control.
The moment controls you.
WHISTLE BLOWS - COMMENTATOR: The responsibility rests
with Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
WENGER: Life is about millimeters...
about timing.
COMMENTATOR: Oh! He's missed it!
He hit the bar.
Justice.
But that was not the end of it, you know.
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS - COMMENTATOR: It's the final whistle.
And Arsenal do get their draw.
All hell broke loose.
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS
FERGUSON: They all had a target on Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
We let him have it.
WENGER: I don't know what went through the head of Martin Keown.
PIRES:
I loved it.
People always say that's too aggressive, people always say that's not football
but that was I think an image of
who we were as a team.
It's not just about the talent that we had.
We could go to war.
The FA will be looking at that.
I think the FA will be looking at all of the incidents
at the end of the game.
WENGER: Martin Keown told me
"I am ashamed, I am ashamed
because my kids see that on television."
I said, "You didn't do nothing wrong.
Don't worry, we will defend you".
CAMERAS CLICK
REPORTER: The FA have charged Arsenal for failing to control their players
while six members of the squad are also individually charged
with misconduct.
The club has been fined £175,000
and warned about its future behaviour.
DEIN: It was a record fine and a record ban.
FANS CHANT: Same old Arsenal, always cheating.
BERGKAMP: You wanna have an enemy, as a team.
You wanna blame someone.
Anyone who punished us.
COMMENTATOR: This is Aliadiere...
and now Edu...
We had each other's back.
...Pires...
oh, it's a fabulous shot!
And a wonderful goal by Robert Pires!
Arsenal lead at Anfield.
CROWD CHEERS
(FRENCH)
WENGER: It created a sense of unity inside the team.
It strengthened our desire.
PLAYERS YELL AND CHEER
We didn't say goodbye to a title.
(FRENCH)
WENGER: I traveled around the world
my brother didn't want to leave his village.
And football was not a job.
Football is something you do when you don't work.
FERGUSON: People brought up in these areas have a foundation.
The discipline and the work rate...
There's something that's driven inside Arséne that said, "Well
I want better than this."
BERNADETTE:
WENGER: My parents came to watch Arsenal specially
when I won my first double.
After that, it was a bit more difficult.
My father maybe contributed more than you'd think.
He never told me, "Well done".
No.
He said, "You can do better".
That strive for perfection
that desire to do well certainly comes from him.
At that time, you educated people
to work hard, to give their best
and to be ready to suffer.
FERGUSON: This creates a certain stubbornness about you
that you know where you've come from.
That working-class ethic is gonna be there all the time.
WENGER: Contrary to what people think
the 2004 season was not the Rolls Royce season.
I was not sure that we could
continue the whole season unbeaten.
COMMENTATOR: ...and the whistle goes. Arsenal have hung on.
WENGER: You have to prepare.
You go out on a stormy night.
COMMENTATOR: Bolton Wanderers...
unfortunate not to have taken all three points.
WENGER: Show me that you can go home without losing a game.
I think it's a real definition of humility.
CROWD CHEERS
COMMENTATOR: A mammoth psychological boost.
A huge win at Highbury for Arsenal.
HENRY: Highbury, in those hard moments gave us...
everything.
Life...
power...
will, desire.
FANS SING: Arsenal
Arsenal FC.
WENGER: There is something special about Highbury.
I still go back.
When you're half a mile away, you still don't see the stadium.
INDISTINCT STREET CHATTER
You look down...
you see already the fans waiting for you.
FANS CHANT: Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal.
WENGER: You go out of your coach and you go through your supporters.
FANS CHEER AND APPLAUD
Everything was small, the corridors were small.
But all the ancestors had their spirit in there.
Are you OK?
When you took a corner at Highbury
you could shake the hand of the fans.
You could speak with the supporters.
Or worse, you know.
After games
the fans knew we were in the dressing room with the connection on the wall.
PLAYERS LAUGH
The players responded by opening the window.
So I had Ian Wright shouting with the fans
"I will see you when I come out," you know?
Sometimes I need to have that feeling again, you know?
And I go up the road and go down, like before.
It was real.
And you cannot find that back
when you build a new stadium.
REPORTER: Arsenal are planning to move out of historic Highbury
REPORTER 2: Arsenal spent years of planning
and millions of pounds
on a plan to move to a new stadium.
DEIN: We had to move. There was no doubt about it.
We had a wait list of about 50,000 people for tickets.
I could see ourselves left behind.
FANS SING: Chelsea, Chelsea.
Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea.
Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea
WENGER: During that season
Chelsea was, for a long period, top of the league.
Abramovich came in...
and there was no financial fair play.
REPORTER: The biggest spending spree in footballing history...
REPORTER 2: 76 million pounds' worth of talent
to bring the Premiership title to West London.
WENGER: It was the ideal moment to buy football clubs
because you could do what you wanted.
I told the players
"It's now or never."
FAN: Go on, Chelsea!
KEOWN: Wenger had got it to fever pitch.
FANS SING: Come on Chelsea, Come on Chelsea.
You didn't wanna be in the team that lost.
COMMENTATOR: Bergkamp... Vieira...
a captain's contribution!
CO-COMMENTATOR: They've absolutely carved them open.
WENGER: The vibes coming out of the team
are always dictated by the fans.
They know if it's a real team out there.
COMMENTATOR: Edu puts it in!
It's all happened inside 20 minutes!
BERGKAMP: When you're at the top
you wanna show the ones who wanna take over
"Wait a minute, it's not your turn yet
we're still here".
And that's what we did.
WENGER: I have the addiction gene.
One negative side effect
is that you don't develop some aspects of your personality
that you could have developed in your life.
More sensitivity, more caring about people.
That's where my daughter started at school.
And this school
has seen the Premier League trophy and the FA Cup.
I feel guilty.
My passion created selfishness.
WENGER IN INTERVIEW: Every night.
Like I have my dinner, I have my football game.
Sometimes of course, on Sundays, you have so many games that uh...
in the end, you go to bed, you don't know what you have seen anymore.
My passion made me
not to take care enough of people around me.
I would've loved to have a bigger family.
And the fact that I was so focused on football
I'm today very grateful
to have a daughter.
Certainly, my balance was too much in favour
of the club and not enough in favour of my family.
I try to repair that now.
HE CHUCKLES
Competition at all costs
is something that destroys a part of your personality.
This desire of hating to lose
makes you sometimes somebody inhuman.
HENRY: At the time, we were going for the treble.
WRIGHT: Arséne Wenger, mentally...
would've been one of the hardest weeks in his football career.
KEOWN: We had a week of trauma.
Madness.
WENGER: I made a mistake.
I played the regular team cos it was Man United.
CROWD ROARS - COMMENTATOR: It's Ryan Giggs!
Back to Scholes!
The treble dream is over.
WENGER: We went into the Chelsea game
physically diminished.
CROWD CLAMORS
We collapsed.
COMMENTATOR: Wayne Bridge could win it... he has!
WRIGHT: Going out the FA Cup
going out of the Champions League
and the pressure of being The Invincibles.
WENGER: You go very quickly
into confidence crisis.
Every loss becomes more difficult
to repair the damage done.
HENRY: There is so much happening in the season
that people do not... know.
REPORTER: Arsenal's World has turned upside down this week.
HENRY: It was taboo to talk about mental health.
JOURNALIST:
Do you know the amount of pressure that you have to go through
during a season?
Because you're the go-to guy, because you're the coach.
WENGER: You have such a crazy schedule
that if it was today, it would be a big, big blow.
Liverpool, 2004. Good Friday.
The decisive moment of that season.
I still can remember today
that tension in the stadium.
COMMENTATOR: And turned in by Sami Hyypiä!
HENRY: When Michael Owen scored
I felt like Highbury died.
COMMENTATOR: Gerrard...
oh and he's picked out Michael Owen!
CROWD WHISTLES AND JEERS
I felt like something was gone.
HALF TIME WHISTLE BLOWS
WENGER: We were in shock.
How quickly you can go from
being on a high to a low, it was unbelievable
in four or five days.
KEOWN: I've never been in a dressing room that was so low.
Down, hurt, wounded.
WENGER: The manager can reduce crisis time.
That is something very important.
"Invincible" is linked with a mental resilience.
It is something deeper.
A refusal of defeat at any costs.
CROWD CHEERS AND ROARS
Don't give in ever.
All I can remember is me coming out of the tunnel.
I just wanted to go back on the field
and rectify what had been done.
WENGER: The special players
they find solutions at the moment where you need them.
Wow, let's go.
CROWD CLAMORS
COMMENTATOR: Henry...
past Hamann, who got nowhere near him...
For him to come up with a goal like that
in a game like that, after a week like that...
it was Superman stuff.
...and still going, Thierry Henry!
When I took that ball
I said to myself, "I'm going to goal
no matter what."
COMMENTATOR: Running at Hamann, and away from him...
running at Carragher, and away from him!
Still Thierry Henry!
Fantastic goal! - CROWD CHEERS
A simply sensational solo effort!
HENRY: When I scored that goal
I felt like we all scored it.
And I felt like everything came back
to a... HE EXHALES DEEPLY
COMMENTATOR: Dennis Bergkamp, lifted over the top for Thierry Henry...
WENGER: It was just like a machine working on full cylinders again.
COMMENTATOR: And all the traumas of the week are left behind!
WENGER: We had passed the doubt period
come back to full strength.
Wow.
CROWD CHANTS INDISTINCTLY
REPORTER: Do they have the word "choking” in French?
That's not the kind of word I have in my dictionary, so...
REPORTER: I didn't think it was.
FANS SING: Are you watching? Are you watching?.
Are you watching, Tottenham?
WENGER: Just before the game
we knew that with a draw we were champions.
FANS SING: Me love you Arsenal, we do...
IN FRENCH:
COMMENTATOR: Henry... look at that
away from Redknapp...
BERGKAMP: We knew exactly from each other
where we would play on the pitch.
COMMENTATOR: Pires in the middle... it's Dennis Bergkamp
and Vieira
FANS YELL AND CHEER
Everyone knew what to do.
FANS YELL AND CHEER
That's an amazing feeling.
COMMENTATOR: Bergkamp...
here's Vieira...
and Robert Pires makes it two!
It's brilliant from Arsenal!
BERGKAMP: This football is close to perfection.
That summed up Arséne's vision.
What a pleasure.
HE LAUGHS
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS - CROWD CHEERS
COMMENTATOR: And Arsenal are champions.
FANS CHEER AND SHOUT
WENGER: This team was a perfect mixture
of continental influence on the way to see football
but in a British environment and with British cultures.
FANS CHEER
Perfect immigration by respecting local values.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
WENGER BREATHES HEAVILY
WENGER: I told them, "It's down to you now.
If you want to ease off
and just accept that you become a normal human being
once he has achieved something...
or do you want to do something special...
COMMENTATOR: It's Reyes!
...become immortal?"
KEOWN: It was another day in the sun.
The trophy's there.
CROWD CHEERS
We go a goal down.
IN FRENCH:
WHISTLE BLOWS
CROWD CHEERS
WENGER: There is something symbolic in Patrick Vieira's destiny.
COMMENTATOR: Magic ball from Bergkamp to Patrick Vieira!
WENGER: People questioned me when I arrived.
The first player I bought was Patrick.
What a player.
COMMENTATOR: The build-up begins...
to a magical, magical moment.
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS - CROWD CHEERS
Arsenal have gone through an entire league campaign without losing.
HE BREATHES HEAVILY
CONFETTI CANNONS BOOM - CROWD CHEERS
VIEIRA: You never know...
how good you are, you never know where you can go
and I think this team will be remembered forever now.
It was just one big joy.
It was fantastic to be part of it.
It's the highest that you can achieve as a team.
HENRY: We all became individually invincible
but we are "Invincibles".
To be able to achieve that, it's second to none.
REPORTER: "I think we can go the whole season unbeaten”
well, he was a man ahead of himself, wasn't he?
He said that 18 months ago and today he's finally been proved right.
WENGER: It was the moment
where I fulfilled the dream of my life.
The fact that I could convince this group
to achieve something that they...
would not think would be possible.
I've done my job in a perfect way one year...
and I'm so proud for having done it.
DISTANT CHANTS ECHO
INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
WENGER: Look well at the pitch here
that's the pitch where we'll make a disaster in a few minutes.
Sometimes I wonder...
was something broken after that invincible season?
Because I had done what I really wanted deeply.
PLAYERS YELL INDISTINCTLY
Is it a symbol?
Is it linked with me?
That after that, when I thought I had achieved the highest level
that I didn't do it again?
(FRENCH)
We were there, and he was there, and...
we climbed up the mountain, but, yeah... what now?
WENGER: I meet many huge champions.
They talk to you only about what they lost...
because success is easy to absorb
but the defeat remains forever.
Highbury...
my soul.
TRAIN RATTLES
The Emirates...
my suffering.
I could see that times would be more difficult.
We started with a project at over 200 million
that we could basically afford.
Then we finished at 428 million.
FERGUSON: What it cost to get the new stadium...
it left them bare.
WENGER: 2007 was a decisive point.
OK.
It's the first time I could feel there were tensions inside the board.
David Dein had an agreement with Stan Kroenke
he wanted to bring in.
I was torn between being loyal to the club
and being loyal to David.
He actually wanted to leave.
And I said to him...
"You have to stay, Arséne."
I still today wonder if I did the right thing.
Because life was never exactly the same after.
REPORTER: Arséne, you have some news to tell us.
I extended my contract with Arsenal Football Club.
That is some good news for you, I hope.
It's good news for me.
I thought, "I have now to go to the end of this project."
I could've gone to the French national team
the English national team twice or three times, even.
I could've gone twice to Real Madrid.
I could've gone to Juventus, to Paris Saint Germain
even to Man United.
Very good, very good, very good.
My fatal flaw is that...
I love too much where I am.
Where I was.
HENRY: It's gonna be difficult.
Man!
WENGER: Once we moved into the stadium
between one and two, we moved to three and four.
We lost our best players.
HENRY: After Mr Dein left
I needed to be certain of where the club was going
and I wasn't, and I've chosen to go.
WENGER: Before, we lost them at 30 plus.
After, we lost them at 25 plus.
HE EXHALES
To work with restricted resources
and keep the club in a position where we can pay our debts back.
From 2006 to 2015
I personally think I did my best job.
KEOWN: There's lots of reasons, financial reasons
board struggles, the new stadium...
but I think he almost became a bit addicted
to wanting to prove he could win another Premier League.
WENGER: To be stubborn can be a strength and a weakness.
FAN: Wenger won't change his tactics. He won't change it, fam!
FAN 2: Not in a title race, season after season.
If anything, we 're going backwards.
Without strong beliefs, you do nothing in life
because you change every day, you go one day right and one day left.
CROWD CHEERS
I am the right man to lead this club further, and that's it.
It's not about popularity
it's about competence.
PLAYERS YELL
WRIGHT: I think one of his worst statements was
"Fourth is like a trophy".
KEOWN: What we saw on the pitch changed.
It became very technical, almost too technical.
Yes, he could've gone on many occasions, but he didn't.
And Arsenal gave a lot to him as well.
WRIGHT: The game against Chelsea...
it was his 1000th game.
CROWD CHEERS
6-0 the final score in that game.
The greatest manager in Arsenal's history
and the players perform like that.
PIERS MORGAN: How many of this team
would get in The Invincibles or either of Wenger's double-winning teams?
Zero.
There didn't seem to be any accountability
for people who played poorly.
They took his kindness for weakness.
HENRY: The boss had that magnificent attribute
of seeing the good always.
But at one point also
you need to see what you have and what's happening.
FANS CHANT: No new contract, no new contract.
COMMENTATOR: Arséne Wenger, he's not happy
he seems to be getting more and more wound up at every decision.
DIXON: It was horrible.
The fall from grace
but it's his own making in the end.
Arsenal had its hooks in Arséne
and he couldn't break free.
FANS CHANT: Where's our money gone? Where's our money gone?
Me want our Arsenal back We want our Arsenal back.
BERGKAMP: That must not have been a nice period
but it's all down to doubt in his mind.
Maybe it would've been easier if he would've made a decision.
FAN: The power, the money...
he took that over what was best for Arsenal Football Club.
COMMENTATOR: More signs of Arsenal disgruntlement...
these have become increasingly regular.
FANS CHANT: We want Wenger out, say we want Wenger out.
WENGER: I'm very demanding with myself.
I should have delegated more.
Have I lost the quality of my judgment?
I don't know.
But my dedication, my desire to do well
was exactly the same.
FANS SING: We want Wenger out! Wenger out!
But I wish that you will see again
Arsenal 20 consecutive years
to qualify for the Champions League.
FANS CHANT: No new contract! No new contract!
He kept them in Europe every year.
You know...
And yet, he was criticized.
These supporters maybe should be ashamed.
I thought in the... some movies in Hollywood
where there's always a great ending
or Sir Alex, that had a great ending.
Most of the time, endings are not great.
NEWS PRESENTER: Breaking news coming to us here
Arséne Wenger, the Arsenal manager
is to step down at the end of the season.
PRESS OFFICER: Hi, folks, thanks for coming down on short notice
on what is obviously a memorable day
for Arsenal Football Club.
IVAN GAZIDIS: Arséne changed the game.
He set a totally new standard.
And we will give him the send-off he deserves.
INDISTINCT CHATTER:
WOMAN: How far do you want them apart? — I just think width of the tunnel.
So then the boss is just literally gonna walk out, clap
and then it's normal match day.
FANS CHEER
WENGER: It's the end of your life.
At least of one life.
Like a funeral.
So after 22 years in charge
how did you think you'd expect to celebrate the emotions of the occasion?
FANS SING: One Arséne Wenger! There's only one Arsene Wenger.
One Arséne Wenger.
WENGER: On the day...
everybody's nice with you
and one week before
you had to face a lot of criticism.
Arsene Wenger, the visionary
Arsene Wenger, an inspiration.
(FRENCH)
ANNOUNCER: One of football's biggest figures
in this global age of ours
and most importantly, a special man.
VIEIRA: Arsene...
left Arsenal...
out of the back door
but even not the back door, I would say the back window.
ANNOUNCER: This, then, is Arsene Wenger.
The greatest manager we have ever had.
FANS APPLAUD AND CHEER
Please give him the greatest welcome you can.
BYSTANDERS APPLAUD
WENGER: You think about when you arrived...
all the players that you managed...
because you realise that it's the end.
PLAYERS APPLAUD - Thank you all very well
for having me for such a long time.
I know that's not easy.
FANS CHANT INDISTINCTLY
I will miss you.
CROWD APPLAUDS
WENGER: I managed to control my emotional side.
But of course, the end of a love story
is always sad.
GAZIDIS: Arsene will always have a place at the club.
Today it's too early to talk about what that might look like down the road.
Thank you all for being such an important part of my life
and hope to see you soon.
Well done. Bye-bye.
CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS
FANS SING: There's only one Arséne Wenger.
One Arséne Wenger.
WENGER: I regret.
I should have gone somewhere else.
I identified myself completely with the club
and that was the mistake I made.
Now there is no special reason for me to go there.
All the rest is purely emotion...
and that is less important.
CHILDREN CHATTER INDISTINCTLY
INDISTINCT CHATTER
PHOTOGRAPHER: - ALL:
BYSTANDERS APPLAUD
WENGER: My village, they are proud
that they produced a guy who was
internationally-known as a football man.
INDISTINCT CHATTER IN FRENCH
They think, rightly so, certainly that they contributed to that.
If happiness is to love the life that you lead
I was very happy because I wanted this life.
I became less religious
but the importance of spiritual values
was always present.
Even in a game
something that unites people
is more than the ball.
They are guided by something bigger than that.
That makes them really be together.
COMMENTATOR: Magic ball from Bergkamp to Patrick Vieira!
WENGER: This team became invincible.
COMMENTATOR: Fabulous shot! Wonderful goal!
WENGER: They managed to achieve something
that they would not think possible.
You can have as much talent as you want to
but what will make a project successful
is always gonna be the people.
The one who put it together...
is Arsene.
He was the father of our project.
Invincible.
FERGUSON: I loved those games.
Yeah, I loved those games against Arsenal.
They were fantastic.
I think Arsene and myself are dinosaurs.
We didn't do so badly.
CROWD CHEERS - HORNS TOOT
I won 13 leagues
but I was never near going through a season undefeated.
The achievement...
it stands aside. It stands above everything else.
And it was Arsenal's.
WENGER: I dream about football...
about what I have done.
Where did I do well? Where did I not do well?
I couldn't believe that football can be a job.
That, for me, was on a different planet.
My life, on that front, is a miracle.
CAMERAS CLICK
Fear guides the restriction of our ambition.
You have not to be scared.
Be audacious...
be ambitious.
Your life can be wilder than your wildest dream.
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