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The Athletic FC Podcast

Arsene Wenger interview with David Ornstein

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's David Ornstein sits down in conversation with Arsenal legend and former manager Arsene Wenger who has released his autobiography - My Life in Red and White. In a wide ranging interview Arsene discusses his emotional exit from Arsenal and his current relationship with the club. Plus there are never-before-told transfer stories featuring Danny Welbeck and the pope. To read all the articles we discuss on today’s podcast in full simply head to www.theathletic.com/ornsteinandchapman to sign up for just £1 a month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.6

Awesome, thanks very much for joining us on the Ornstein and Chapman podcast. I wanted to try and ask you something that as many questions as I could that haven't been asked to you over the last couple of weeks. One of the most extraordinary things I found I was at the

0:18.8

Palladium on Monday night and I've followed all of your interviews is that for a man so private you have done an

0:25.1

extraordinary amount of public appearances over the last couple of weeks.

0:29.7

What have you made of this road show so to speak? Well it is unusual for me and I thought I made the

0:39.2

book and the publisher trusted me so I wouldn't have done it. They asked me to do it because it's a way you can

0:47.6

have success with the book so I did it. I enjoyed some of it because it's a long time. I didn't speak to the media as well.

0:55.8

But of course it's the accumulation of it makes it quite a lot.

0:59.5

And because I wanted to regroup it in a very short period because I want to go back to work at FIFA and that's why maybe the accumulation is I overestimated a bit my strengths there.

1:11.6

You've missed us in the media that's nice to hear.

1:13.6

Reading the book listening to your interviews as well as the happiness about

1:18.6

the whole job and career you've had so far. I do detect quite a lot of sadness throughout, nostalgia, a bit of loneliness,

1:27.5

quite a lot of loneliness from your youth right up until today. Is that something that you felt and it almost led you to open up in

1:37.9

this book and this round of interviews? Well when you make a decision at the end of

1:42.0

a day you take advice from everybody, but at some stage you make the decision, you know, and so it is accept the uncertainty of a decision you make that creates that tension because what

1:58.2

creates stress is uncertainty and pressure from outside.

2:04.0

So that means it's a moment where you feel lonely,

2:07.0

but when you build the team on Friday night,

2:10.0

you know about the eight players, two or three you don't really know and it's when how you feel

2:16.2

so at some stage you have to make a decision and when you make a decision only you can do that

2:21.9

that so you have that feeling of loneliness sometimes.

2:24.7

Has that led you to daydream, have dreams, have nightmares about Arsenal,

2:30.9

about incidents, about matches and results? Yes, of course. about 24 hours a day when you sleep sometimes you wake up and you think about the next training session you think about the next game how you want to play and

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