All language subtitles for Arsene.Wenger.Invincible.2021.1080p.BluRay

DISTANT SIREN WAILS

CHILDREN LAUGH

ARSÉNE WENGER:
The meaning of my life was football .

TRAIN RATTLES

Sometimes I'm afraid by that.

To UeUioate your whole life to that...

is a bit frightening .

But I have to acknowledge

that it is the oase.

PEOPLE CHATTER INDISTINCTLY

COMMENTATOR: Twenty-two years
after his arrival at Arsenal...

WOMAN I IN PRENCH :

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:
Arséne Wenger

*here's only one Arséne Wenger

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:
Thl*-elght 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 Inviolable"

but if it' S little millimeters...

we would 't speak about that.

CROWD CLAMOROUS RS

HE PANTS

I believe in fate.

I say it many times,
but a cigaret change my life.

January 2nd , 1989 .

My first time at Highbury.

At half time...

I wanted to smoke my cigaret
because I was a fyPioal Prenoh guy.

A frienU of Barbara Dein

DaviU Dein ' s wife

gave me a Iight.

Barbara Dein tolU me

"WoulU you Iike to meet my husbanU?
He ' s a Uireotor here. "

DAVI D DEI N : I have a Personal motto.
It' s the motto of the turtle.

You Uon 't get anywhere
unless you stiok your neok out.

So I saiU , "Well ...

what are you Uoing this evening? "
He saiU , " Nothing . "

I saiU , "Well , woulU you Iike
to oome out to Uinner? "

He saiU , " I ' U Iove to. "

AnU that ohangeU our Iives forever.

MAN ON RADIO: A slght that allArsenal
fans have been Iooklng forward to...

thls ls lt, the arrlval
of thelr new manager...

IAN WRIGHT:
ArounU the time

Johann Cru*' s name
was being mentioneU .

So you oan imagine...

REPORTER: How much
are the players Iooklng forward

to Arséne Wenger arrlvlng?
- Who ?

HE LAUGHS

SMATTERI NG OP APPLAUSE

WENGER:
PeroePtion of me...

was "Who are you? "

"Arsėne Who? "

He IookeU Iike
a universify Ieoturer.

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 Swedlsh, lsn 't he ?
- Nol

I know he 's a Frenchman.

And I know he eats frog 's Iegs.

REPORTER: Why have you
gone contlnental? Is lt a rlsk?

I thlnk appolntlng any manager
ls somewhat ofa rlsk

but lt's a calculated one.

PHOTOG RAPHER:
Rlght, and then open your hands.

DEI N : I ooulU see
the game was going more globaI

anU I was PrePareU to reoommenU

that we oPen uP our horizons to...

to something new.

Honestly...

when I think about it

they were brave.

PHOTOG RAPHER:
Arséne, thls way, please ?

WENGER: There was no history
of suooess of any foreign managers...

MAN :
Stralght lnto thls Iens.

WENGER:
. . .anU I ooulU reaU in the newsPaPers

a foreign manager oan never win
a PremiershiP.

PHOTOG RAPHER: Last one.
- OK, Iast one. Really Iast one.

Thank you .

WENGER:
I was born in 1 949 .

Very soon after the war...

at Duttlenheim .

Don 't say "town , " say "village. "

WENGER I N PRENCH :

Physioal strength was at the heart
of the village.

The guy who haU no oonsiUeration at alI

was the guy who was Iazy.

Very, very strong Catholio region .

We haU to go to the Mass,
we haU to oonfess.

I Iearnt that at a very young age.

WENGER I N PRENCH :

BELL TOLLS

My first memories, the ohuroh ,
the football Pitoh

anU the restaurant
where I grew uP.

My father was an aooountant
at Bugatti .

My mother haU inheriteU this bar.

It was one of the three
or four in the village

but this one guiUeU my Iife.

WENGER I N PRENCH :

I starteU to Iisten to PeoPIe

to observe PeoPIe.

It was a great Psyohologioal exPerienoe
for a Iittle boy.

I realiseU quiokly

that we haU Problems
to win football games.

So I took my Mass book with me

anU I PrayeU Uuring the game.

CROWD CLAMOU RS

BERNADETTE WENGER I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
At that time

you ooulU not marry someboUy
from another village.

BERNADETTE:

In my wilUest Ureams,
I haU always to Uisoover the worlU .

I went to universify.

One year to meUioine

two years to eoonomios

one year to sooiology

to unUerstanU all
that exists arounU me.

WENGER I N PRENCH :

PHOTOG RAPHER:
One in the miUUIe, in the blue.

Beautiful .
- PHOTOG RAPHERS CHATTER

WENGER: I ooulU sense
that the team was Iooking at me

thinking , "What is this guy?
What is he Uoing here? "

How oan I sum him uP?

What oan I say?

He haU a massive jaoket on

glasses were massive.

My niokname for him was "CIueso" .

It ls Chlef Inspector...

CIueso.

Plnk Pantherl We was watohing
a Iot of Plnk Panther.

PIease come ln.

So many cameras here...

I feel Ilke I'm maklng a movle.

WRIGHT:
He woulU triP uP

forget things...

He was just that kinU of guy.

SWORD WHOOSHES
- SWORD THUDS

GOAL NET CLATTERS

Sorry, my frlend.

WRIGHT: There was a time
when we PIayeU against WimbleUon ...

the Iights went off,
so we were walking baok in

anU as we were walking baok in ,
he was getting reaUy to oome out

anU he saiU , "What' s going on? "

Honestly, we went,
"There ' s a burmb. "

AnU he went, "A burmb? "
HE LAUGHS

A burmbl

HE YELLS

EXPLOSION BOOMS

HE LAUGHS

HE SI NGS:
*-O to the Arsenal

WENGER:
It was a monooultural team .

An English blook of PIayers

with one star in there,
Dennis BergkamP.

Ooh !

DEN N IS BERG KAM P:
What he has saiU from Uay one

"You shoulUn 't take
the English mentalify

out of an English team " .

That' s what he taught

anU exPeoteU from
the foreign PIayers as well .

To have that mentalify.

TONY ADAMS:
I aln 't got tlme for transltlons.

I don 't Ilke that word.

It's a type of excuse.

Look at hlm. Look at the camera.

WENGER: They were a grouP
of very strong Personalities.

Nlce one.
- I Iove you, Dlcko.

I Iove you too.

WENGER:
A grouP of men .

They were not always easy.

But on SaturUay...

you ooulU walk out with them .

You knew they were reaUy
for a fight.

CROWD CLAMOU RS

CROWD ROARS

And I'm not slnglng
"1-O " no more.

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER

LEE DIXON :
His biggest asset on the training grounU

was allowing his PIayers

to exPress themselves
anU work Problems out on the Pitoh .

Good ball, yes.

MARTI N KEOWN : By the time
you reaoh SO years of age

you 've kinU of set out your oharaoter,
haven 't you?

As how you wanna PIay football
anU how you see it...

anU when Wenger arriveU

he gave a renaissanoe, really,
for that grouP.

WENGER:
There was a Urinking oulture.

I always felt it' s stuPiU
to work the whole week in training

anU then to kill yourself
outsiUe the Pitoh .

I out that all off.

They haU to ohange their habits.

WRIGHT:
It ohangeU from night to Uay.

No tea, no sugar, nothing .

AII you ooulU Urink was water
anU the fooU what was ProviUeU .

Changed lt to sult us, so we aln 't got
no bu*er or an*hlng ln lt.

BERG KAM P: ImmeUiately we haU suooess
with his way of thinking .

That maUe the English PIayers realise

"OK, wait a minute,
this is what we want" .

We UiUn 't know if it was
the stretohing

it was the vitamins we were taking

it was the new Uiet.

We felt Iike suPermen .

WENGER:
Every win gave me a bit of time.

But when you starteU to win

it oreateU some aUverse reaotions.

Private attaoks.

Vioious attaoks.

I visiteU my Parents in Strasbourg ...

anU when I oame baok, I took a oab

anU he tolU me,
"Why UiU you resign? "

I saiU , "Who tolU you that? "

REPORTER:
He arrlvedjust seven weeks ago...

WENGER: He saiU ,
" It' s been announoeU on the raUio. "

...but now he 's at the centre

of suggestlons about
hls own personal Ilfe.

PRESS OPPICER: . . .from ITN, they'II be
asklng you a couple of questlons.

WENGER: So I haU to
imProvise a Press oonferenoe

on the stairs in front of Highbury...

JOU RNALIST:

Sorry?

...to say " I have not resigneU .

You know, if you have anything
against me

bring it out...

anU Iet' s Ueal with it. "

JOU RNALIST:

No.

WRIGHT:
This obviously starteU from nothing

but he haU to oome out
anU say something .

It really was so oallous anU nasfy.

JOU RNALIST:

HE LAUGHS

"Oh , we have Photos
that are very baU for you . "

Brlng me somebody who can speak
about myprlvate Ilfe.

I have a prlvate Ilfe, Ilke everybody,
Ilke you.

Of oourse, they haU nothing .

WRIGHT:
There was a massive negativify

beoause he was a foreign manager

anU he was Uoing stuff
that was alien to everyboUy.

PeoPIe are afraiU of things
that' s Uifferent.

The natural thing to Uo is
to try anU finU fault

anU try anU oreate, um ...

a Problem .

What have you concrete ?

From me, my Ilfe ?

What do you know ofmy Ilfe
concretely?

JOU RNALIST: We don 't know an*hlng.
- But. . . But...

JOU RNALISTS CLAMOU R

Thankyou very much.

BYSTANDERS CHEER AND APPLAUD

SI REN BLARES

HORN HON KS

MAN I N PRENCH :
- PATRICK VI EI RA I N PRENCH :

WENGER: Patrlck was known
as a blg talent ln France

and conslderlng that he was only 2O...

lt was a blg chance for Arsenal
to take thls player.

WENGER: Pirst of all . . .
- PHOTOG RAPHER: Ready?

...you ooulUn 't imPress him .

Ready to go.

WENGER:
He wasn 't soareU of anyboUy.

VI EI RA:
NoboUy knew who I was.

This tall guy has oome in ,
really skinny anU have this kinU of...

strange way of running .

But from the first game
that I PIayeU with the first team

I oonvinoe my teammates

that I oan PIay in this olub
anU I oan PIay on that Ievel .

COMMENTATOR:
Here 's Vlelra...

lt's a great run...

he 's stlll golng...

WRIGHT: His first touoh ,
his skills, his running with the ball ...

THEY LAUGH

"Jesus Christ, that' s our PIayer! "

VI EI RA:
Arsėne of oourse was really imPortant

he gave me that oonfiUenoe
to exPress myself.

WENGER:
EveryboUy thought maybe the manager

Uoesn 't know what he ' s Uoing ,
but at Ieast he brings a gooU PIayer!

AnU I UiU bring a gooU PIayer.
I brought a hell of a PIayer, you know?

CROWD ROARS

VI EI RA I N PRENCH :

BELL CH I MES

TONY BLAI R:
And thls New Labour government

wlll govern ln the lnterests ofall
our people, the whole of thls natlon.

PEOPLE CHEER

WENGER:
Prom ' 97 onwarUs

EnglanU beoame more oPen
to the rest of the worlU .

LonUon beoame very oosmoPolitan .

It ooinoiUeU with the start
of an evolution in the English game.

JOU RNALIST:
Was lt a penalty on Sunday?

Ah, no chance, man.
The referee was a cheat.

PEOPLE LAUGH

WENGER:
The ' 97- ' 9B season

you ooulU see there was something there
that was blossoming .

There was an olU oore
of English PIayers

anU a new olique
of foreign PIayers.

I brought Emmanuel Petit in .

Mornlng.

WENGER: He was a more Uefensive
PIayer than Patriok Vieira

so the two together, of oourse,
were two monsters.

THEY LAUGH

AnU I bought a suPer PIayer
in oalleU Maro Overmars.

CROWD ROARS

I N PRENCH :

Nioholas Anelka. . . wow.

WRIGHT: He was just Iike
an unstoPPable foroe.

CROWD CHEERS

KEOWN : I ' U never seen
a 1 7-year-olU kiU that gooU .

It was that sort of feeling
of almost giggling

at the qualify.

CROWD CHEERS

Really high-oalibre PIayers.

But they've all been bought
by Arsėne Wenger.

I'm the klng of the worldl

WENGER:
In the ChamPionshiP

we were nine Points
behinU Man UniteU .

But the whole team was oonvinoeU
that we ooulU win it.

COMMENTATOR:
Oh, lt's Overmarsl

He 's done ltl

The Champlonshlp race ls
stlll wlde openl

COMMENTATOR 2 : And Sheffleld Wednesday
wonder qulte what has hlt them.

WRIGHT: He was very Uifferent
beoause every other manager

even if you ' re Uoing welI

they have to blast you Uown .

CROWD CHEERS

He UiUn 't Uo that.

COMMENTATOR: Three agalnst Newcastle,
four agalnst BIackburn

and now flve agalnst Wlmbledon.

You ooulU see PeoPIe were
fearing us. They feareU us.

COMMENTATOR:
So close now.

Arsenal chase the one wln needed.

The intensify of the exPerienoe
was something that was unbelievable.

PANS CHANT:
*rsenall Arsenall

I ' II never forget, Tony AUams sooreU at
Highbury on a sunny afternoon in May.

COMMENTATOR:
Adams, put through by Bouldl

Wouldyou belleve lt?

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS

Ten stralght wlns.

They've absolutely roared
to the tltle.

CROWD ROARS

Yeahl What's thls?

Heyl
- MAN : Heyl

Where 'd that come from ?

I NTERVI EWER: It's dl*cult to reallse
what a Frenchman 's done over here.

I hadn 't even heard ofyou, actually,
I've go*a be honest about that.

And now we 're faced wlth the prospect
thatyou could do the double.

CROWD CHANTS I NDISTI NCTLY

WENGER: This was a Uefining moment
of my oareer at Arsenal .

An exoePtional moment in my Iife.

To win straightaway
was absolutely vital .

COMMENTATOR: Here 's Overmars,
could be there for the Dutchman

he 's through here. . .
and he 's scoredl

Boom-boom . The Uouble.

COMMENTATOR:
Anelka 's awayl

Good strlkel

CROWD CHEERS

WENGER:
I ooulU oome, unknown

anU win as a Prenoh guy.

CROWD CLAMOU RS
- HORNS TOOT

It was a very Iong honeymoon
anU it was the start of it.

The real start of it.

HE YELLS

MAN ON ADVERT:
Is thls your ldea ofluxury?

There 's a hlnt ofhlstory
and wealth ln every street-slde symbol.

But thls ls the falry-tale Iand
whlch fllrts wlth the buslness world.

Yes, thls ls Monaco.

WENGER: Monaoo, it was the first time
I realiseU that I ooulU win .

I was SG, S7.

In my first season ,
we won the ChamPionshiP.

COMMENTATOR I N PRENCH :
Balle de matchl

Et butl

But I won it with
some English PIayers, Mark Hateley

anU the suPer GIenn HoUUIe.

JOU RNALIST I N PRENCH :

I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
Marseille haU a fantastio team

I N PRENCH :

JOU RNALIST LAUGHS

WENGER:
But the rumours were there.

The susPioion was there.

DIXON :
That PerioU at Monaoo was harU for him .

There was some allegations
of matoh-fixing .

CorruPtion .

WENGER:
It enUeU baUIy.

NEWS PRESENTER I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
Marseille was relegateU .

It was a Uark PerioU
of Prenoh football .

MAN ON ADVERT:
Is thls stlllyour ldea ofluxury?

Or has the commerclal clamour
destroyed completely the memorles...

HE EXHALES

What is absolutely unbelievable

it UiUn 't stoP my belief
in human beings.

Not being oaPable to trust other PeoPIe

you woulU be unhaPPy your whole Iife.

I haU Uone ten years
in Prenoh footbalI

anU I thought, " It' s time
for me to go somewhere else. "

WENGER:
And thls ls the name.

Arséne Wenger.
- Ahl Arsénel

WENGER:
You?

THEY LAUGH

WENGER: You have some managers
who are exPortable...

anU some not.

I N PRENCH :

It' s aUaPtation
to a Uifferent way of Iiving .

That' s not always easy.

WENGER I N PRENCH :

WENGER: I took a team who was
bottom of the Ieague...

MAN I N JAPANESE ON RADIO:

...we finisheU seoonU in the Ieague
anU won the ouP.

I was straightaway Manager of The Year.

WENGER I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
Yeah, be*er.

I was keen to go somewhere anU show
that I have the talent.

I thought,
" I oan ooPe with going abroaU " .

WH ISTLE BLOWS

Yeahl

You seel You seel

WOMAN SOUEALS

Come onl
- HE YELLS I N JAPANESE

I ooulU have UeoiUeU to stay
in JaPan for a Iong PerioU .

But I thought I ' U oome baok to EuroPe
if it' s for a big olub.

I haU a olear iUea of what I wanteU ...

anU I knew quiokly
what I ooulU bring in .

CH I LDREN SHOUT
- DRUMS THUD

WENGER:
It' s nioe through the trees arounU there.

Unbelievable.

DEI N :
Normalify' s boring , isn 't it?

The way he Iives his Iife
is not normal .

WENGER:
I ' m a hermit.

In faot, at night,
I sleeP in the tree there.

DEI N :
He was Uriven .

WonUertully Uriven .

I mean , so foouseU .

WENGER:
I IiveU in my bubble.

My own Iittle worlU .

I N PRENCH :

I haU only a triangle:

Home, training oentre, Highbury.

I PrePare the game
exaotly Iike a PIayer.

I never go out 4B hours
before a game.

Por Uinner, or anything .

You have to saorifioe your Iife
for this job.

PHONE RI NGS

Hello?

Arsėne...

I N PRENCH :

...One or two shlrts.

No problem.
- I tellyou tomorrow.

OK.

WENGER:
PeoPIe say "obsession " ...

but for me...

I oannot even tell you
it was work, I IoveU it.

DEI N : Pirst thing I UiU
was to get a oouPIe of satellites for him

so that he haU games ooming in
from all over the worlU .

COMMENTATOR SPEAKS GERMAN

WENGER:
Germany, SPain , Italy, Pranoe...

every night was football , football ,
football anU tomorrow, football again .

A wayl

PIayers who wlllplay...

HE SIGHS

He Put everything into it.
He Put his Iife anU soul into it.

Davld?

I'mjust Ieavlng. I'm golng home now.

OK? So I'II see you Iater.

I know.

Ah , the writer' s ohair here.

Right.

PRODUCER: OK, Slr AIex Ferguson,
Manchester Unlted manager.

ALEX PERGUSON :
AIways Iook in your rear mirror

to see who ' s behinU you .

I mean , you see someone
oome uP behinU you , you aooelerate.

AIex Perguson was the Uominant figure
in English football .

EveryboUy was soareU of him ,
from the Press to the referees.

I've shown great patlence wlth you.

He was the guy to beat.
He was the Uon .

Arséne Wenger's been ln Japan.

He doesn 't know an*hlng
about Engllsh football.

He 's unaware of the demands
of our game.

WENGER: I thought that' s
a gooU oPPortunify for me

to show that
it' s not only in EnglanU that...

you know how to PIay football .

I was reaUy for a fight.

CROWD CHEERS

Arsenal were oatohing us uP

anU their team was gooU enough

to go above us,
there ' s no question about that.

WENGER:
It was sometimes very aggressive

esPeoially after the games.

PERGUSON : Thlnk he should
concentrate on hls ownjob

rather than talk about
Manchester Unlted.

It beoame toxio for a while.

AnU I ' m saying to myself,
" Is he Iooking for a war? "

REPORTER:
Arsenal agalnst Manchester Unlted

you expect thelr strongest slde
to be playlng today, obvlously.

HE CHUCKLES
Yes, you have a good sense ofhumour.

When you ' re fighting to win ,
you ' re two Iions

with only one Uesire

is to eat the Iion
who is against you .

REPORTER: Brllllant, and Iet's have
some more of that today, thankyou.

Thankyou. We 'II try.

I was not soareU
of anyboUy in football .

CROWD CHANTS AND CLAPS

That game at Villa Park

was the most emotional football matoh
I 've ever PIayeU in .

CROWD CHANTS

We were going for a Uouble,
another Uouble...

anU UniteU were going for the treble.

PeoPIe say,
" Do you miss the game? "

I Uon 't miss the game,
but I miss the big games.

CROWD CLAMOU RS

The Man UniteU PIayers were reaUy
to Uie for their olub.

COMMENTATOR:
Sherlngham. . . for Beckham...

Ohl What a goall

We were sure that
we were gonna win the game.

COMMENTATOR: Bergkamp 's shot. . .
deflected off Stam, lt's lnl

PERGUSON :
We got Keane sent off.

CROWD JEERS

The Urama was unbelievable.

BERG KAM P:
We were 11 against 1 O .

We just went for it.

COMMENTATOR:
Parlour's gone downl

WENGER: In the 9SrU minute,
we haU a Penalfy.

Oh , I thought we were out.
I UiU , I thought we were out.

WENGER:
The Penalfy...

markeU our relationshiP
with Manohester UniteU .

CROWD ROARS

The Uuel .

VI EI RA: If there is a guy
that I woulU want to take the Penalfy

it woulU be Dennis.

Penalfy taker shoulU always soore.

It woulU 've been over for them .

This is strange, but I kePt thinking

he was gonna Put it
in the Ieft hanU oorner.

COMMENTATOR:
Bergkamp vs Schmelchel...

CROWD CHEERS
- Oh, and Schmelchel's saved ltl

WENGER:
After that, Dennis BergkamP

never wanteU to take a Penalfy again .

VI EI RA:
Details make a Uifferenoe.

COMMENTATOR:
Vlelra. . . only as far as Glggs...

I Iost that ball .

I shoulU 've brought him Uown .

COMMENTATOR:
He 'II run at Keown...

and he 'II run at D*on...

Ohl What about that?

DIXON : My heart just sank
to the Iowest Iow.

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS

CROWD ROARS

PERGUSON : I Uon 't know
if we ' U have won the EuroPean CuP

if we haUn 't won that game.

Maybe we were UestineU
to win the treble that year.

WENGER: I ' II never forget
the haPPiness of Man UniteU

when they beat us that night.

I threw uP sometimes
after the games when I Iost.

It hurt so muoh .

I ' m a Perteotionist
anU I ' m very UemanUing with myself.

When you Iose a game,
you always know

there was a way to win it.

But the Uefeat remains with you forever.

Women kill for Iove...

anU men kill
beoause they hate to Iose.

CH I LDREN YELL
- WENGER: Hey.

A chaque fols vous m 'avez surprls.

WENGER:
The way I saw the job

is to influenoe PeoPIe ' s Iives
through values.

The PIayers must know

that if they have a real big Problem ,
they oan oall me.

If there are Uiffioult times,
I am there for them .

Like a father.

I N PRENCH :

WENGER I N PRENCH :
- CH I LDREN : Mercll

VI EI RA:
He has always ProteoteU me

anU when the manager is UefenUing you

you will Uie for him .

I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
The manager is someboUy who has to...

think, " I am not imPortant. "

Eh, Iå, Iå, Iå, Iå, Iå.

WENGER:
It' s a sPeoial job on that front.

It UemanUs
a Psyohologioal transformation .

KEOWN : His biggest joy
was to see PIayers imProve.

The training of Arsėne Wenger
was on another Ievel .

You know, this feeling of invinoibilify
oame on Uay one.

It was the oalmness
that he brought.

VI EI RA:
When you are talking to him

he Uoesn 't give you
this kinU of suPeriorify.

WENGER I N PRENCH :
- BOY I N PRENCH :

THEY CHATTER
- THÉO LAUGHS

This is why I say to young PIayers

"Choose the olub by the manager. "

CH I LDREN LAUGH

VI EI RA:
Talk to the manager

he will be the one
who will make you a better PIayer.

CH I LDREN CHEER

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER

TH I ERRY HEN RY:
Arsėne ohangeU my Iife.

Thierry Henry.

COMMENTATOR I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
I knew that from a young age

alreaUy he was. . . sPeoial .

HEN RY:
He gave me an oPPortunify to shine.

I oan never
thank him enough for that.

PERGUSON : We IookeU at Henry,
he was outsiUe-Ieft at Monaoo.

But, you know,
I ooulUn 't see him as a oentre-forwarU .

REPORTER: The French lnternatlonal
surplus to requlrements at Juventus

Wenger has got hls man

although he 's cost Arsenal
a club-record fee.

WENGER:
He haU Iost something

that is, basioally, belief.

The big ohange they maUe
at Arsenal was...

reinventing Henry.

AnU the goals. . .
I mean , he was fantastio.

COMMENTATOR:
Oh. . . Ohl What a goall

Thlerry Henryl

I wasn 't a oentre-forwarU really

when you watoh me PIay.

COMMENTATOR:
Henry...

Henryl

HEN RY:
Arsėne gave me that freeUom .

REPORTER: Thls role up front,
how are you enjoylng lt?

HE CHUCKLES

PeoPIe in Iife arrive quite early

at a very gooU Ievel
anU Uon 't move too muoh

beoause they Uon 't
Push themselves enough .

You oan be
a Professional football PIayer

but I Uo want to Uisoover
something more

anU exPIore, really,
what football oan give you .

COMMENTATOR:
Thlerry Henryl

Wonderful goall

HEN RY:
The boss, in that way, is magnifioent.

He makes you realise
how gooU you oan be.

He alloweU me to exPress myself.

WRIGHT: When you Iook at
what he ' s Uone with Thierry

it was frightening .

COMMENTATOR:
You can only stand and admlre.

WRIGHT: Thierry Henry is the best
PIayer that Arsenal has ever haU .

ROBERT PI RES I N PRENCH :

VI EI RA:
LonUon was really oPen-minUeU .

PeoPIe really Uon 't oare about...

what you ' re Uriving ,
what you ' re wearing

or the oolour of your skin .

THEY LAUGH

I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
In the 2OOOs

the foreign influenoe
in the oulture of EnglanU

Politioally anU on
the footballing front

starteU to beoome very imPortant.

HEN RY:
Look at the post. Should've been a goal.

Over the Ilne.
- BOB WI LSON : It was over, yeah.

Yeahl Ask Bobl

WENGER: We moveU from a monooultural
team to a multioultural team .

Influenoes from all over EuroPe.

It was as well
the evolution of the game

beoause it was more mobile,
more teohnioaI

more insPirational .

BERG KAM P: He was a fan
of the Dutoh Total Pootball ...

anU I ooulU see a Iot
of similarities there.

We really starteU to PIay footbalI

the way he saw football .

Va-va-voom .

WENGER:
I am a romantio.

A Pragmatio romantio.

We are in entertainment.

The grounUwork is to win .

But that is not enough .

You neeU the ambition
to give more.

To go UeePer into what the game
oan give to PeoPIe.

- Flngers crossed.
- Ta-ta.

WOMAN : Cheers, mate. Bye.
- WOMAN 2 : See yal

WENGER:
To get something more

than just the inUiviUual exPression
of a PIayer.

Gonna watch the champlons tonlght?

WENGER:
But the oolleotive exPression of the team

to transform it into art.

WENGER:
You oan say it' s n*'.ve

but you neeU to give
something sPeoial to PeoPIe

to get out of their harU Uaily Iife.

COMMENTATOR:
It ls nlgh on perfectl

CROWD CHANTS

WENGER: I just wanteU them
to sit in that seat

anU think...

" Unbelievable. "

COMMENTATOR:
Freddle Ljungbergl

CROWD ROARS

COMMENTATOR: Thls ls Bergkamp. . .
oh, wonderful sklll from Dennls Bergkampl

What a superb goall

Plres...

he 's ln here,
stlll Robert Plres...

oh, what a wonderful goall
- CAR HORN TOOTS

WENGER:
2OO2 ...

maybe we PIayeU
the most sPeotaoular football ever.

COMMENTATOR:
And Ljungberg...

He 's ln agalnl Pushed out by Barthezl

*Itordl
- CROWD ROARS

They've taken the tltle away
from Manchester Unlted.

WENGER:
You neeU to have that Uesire

to give something more.

CROWD CHANTS AND SI NGS

PANS SI NG : *e won the Ieague
ln Manchester ♪

*e won the Ieague
and cup double ♪

*e won the Ieague ln Manchester

WH ISTLES BLOW
- HORNS TOOT

CROWD CHANTS
- HORNS BLARE

WENGER:
The influenoe you have on PeoPIe ' s Iives

is to show them a Iittle Iight

of what is their ne* Ievel .

To go for something bigger.

So in 2OO2 ...

I set them a target

anU that was to win the ChamPionshiP
without Iosing a game.

CROWD ROARS

THEY LAUGH

We saiU , " He ' s Iosing his minU ,
he ' s Iosing his heaU .

What is he talking about? "

I IookeU at the TV,
I was Iike, "Why? "

I N PRENCH :

Of oourse, the meUia haU
a real go at me

they think it was arrogant.

JOU RNALIST: Dldyou say
"I want to go the whole season unbeaten "?

JOU RNALIST 2 :
Do you thlnk lt's posslble...

JOU RNALIST S :
Is that record wlthln your grasp ?

JOU RNALIST 4 : Do you regret saylng
you could go the whole season unbeaten ?

WENGER:
I have no regrets at all about that.

We UiUn 't win the ChamPionshiP.

So I tolU them again

" I still think you oan Uo it"

beoause I was so muoh attaokeU
by everyboUy

that I thought, " Really, this time,
we have to Uo it. "

HE CHUCKLES

HORSES CLOP

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER

VI EI RA:
He haU this kinU of vision about...

what this team oan aohieve

Putting all our strengths together.

Thinking that we woulU go through
the season unbeaten

was something
that not even orosseU our minUs.

He must've weigheU that uP.

You know, the oonsequenoes
of saying that Publioly

but he genuinely believeU that.

AnU that' s
what Arsėne was trying to Uo.

"Are we oaPable? "

WENGER:
I haU the ambition to Uo it.

COMMENTATOR:
Now Henry...

brllllant savel

Plresl Goall

AnU I haU the Uoubt as well .

To get imPossible targets...

Put the seeU in their brains...

anU wait until it oomes out.

The more the Uream
Iooks imPossible

the more it oan strengthen
your motivation .

THU NDER RUMBLES

JOU RNALIST: There 's no Iove Iost
between the two sldes

are you concerned
that the match ltself

could degenerate
ln any shape or form ?

WENGER:
No, not at all.

PERGUSON : Now, these are the kinU
of games that oome baok to haunt you .

It was us anU Arsenal ,
us anU Arsenal .

I think the intensify
between both olubs

meant we knew we haU
to beat eaoh other.

You know if you go
to Man UniteU , you oannot Iose

if you want to win
the ChamPionshiP.

CROWD CLAMOU RS I N DISTANCE

I IikeU it beoause the football
was rougher.

The ohallenges were tougher.

WH ISTLE BLOWS

It was a question of
" It' s you or me. "

You oan 't Ieave you oharaoter
in the Uressing room .

It goes out on the Pitoh with you

anU Arsenal haU to oomPete with that

anU they UiU very well at it.

VI EI RA:
It went to a Uifferent IeveI

beoause they are feeling that...

we are olose to them .

CROWD ROARS
- WH ISTLE BLOWS

AnU there was an inoiUent.

WH ISTLE BLOWS

COMMENTATOR:
Vlelra klcklng out therel

WENGER: Van Nistelrooy
maUe more of it

than it was, of oourse.

But it was normal . It was UniteU .
HE LAUGHS

Patriok trieU to kiok him .

COMMENTATOR:
Steve Benne* thlnks that he dld.

Even though
he UiUn 't make oontaot

the intent was there.

COMMENTATOR: He 's offl
- CROWD CHEERS

VI EI RA:
I was so maU , I was so...

orazy in my heaU that...

I was against the referee
anU UniteU .

CROWD BOOS

Then we haU to survive.

KEOWN :
The game ohangeU oomPIetely.

You Uon 't wanna be the weakness,
you Uon 't wanna be the weak Iink.

You Uon 't wanna Iet anyone Uown .

COMMENTATOR:
In towards Forlán...

Manchester Unlted want a penalty...

WH ISTLE BLOWS
- . . .and they've got onel

KEOWN :
I 've given the Penalfy away.

It' s all on me.

I was thinking it' s a robbery.

We oan Iose this game now.

It' s unbelievable.

I N PRENCH :

Never haU a Uoubt when

Van Nistelrooy haU to take
an imPortant Penalfy.

1 OOo/o oonfiUent.

WENGER:
What UiU I say?

Destiny.

At that moment,
you have no oontrol .

The moment oontrols you .

WH ISTLE BLOWS
- COMMENTATOR: The responslblllty rests

wlth Ruud Van Nlstelrooy.

WENGER:
Life is about millimetres...

about timing .

COMMENTATOR:
Ohl He 's mlssed ltl

He hit the bar.

Justioe.

But that was not
the enU of it, you know.

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS
- COMMENTATOR: It's the flnal whlstle.

AndArsenal do get thelr draw.

AII hell broke Ioose.

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS

PERGUSON : They all haU a target
on RuuU Van Nistelrooy.

We Iet him have it.

WENGER: I Uon 't know what went
through the heaU of Martin Keown .

PI RES:

I IoveU it.

I IoveU it.

PeoPIe always say that' s too aggressive,
PeoPIe always say that' s not footbalI

but that was I think
an image of

who we were as a team .

It' s not just about
the talent that we haU .

We ooulU go to war.

The FA wlll be Iooklng at that.

I thlnk the * wlll be
Iooklng at all of the lncldents

at the end of the game.

WENGER:
Martin Keown tolU me

" I am ashameU , I am ashameU

beoause my kiUs see that
on television . "

I saiU , "You UiUn 't Uo nothing wrong .

Don 't worry, we will UefenU you " .

CAMERAS CLICK

REPORTER: The FA have chargedArsenal
for falllng to control thelr players

whlle slx members of the squad are
also lndlvldually charged

wlth mlsconduct.

The club has been flned *175, OOO

and warned about lts future behavlour.

DEI N : It was a reoorU fine
anU a reoorU ban .

PANS CHANT:
*ame oldArsenal, always cheatlng

*ame oldArsenal, always cheatlng

*ame oldArsenal, always cheatlng

BERG KAM P:
You wanna have an enemy, as a team .

You wanna blame someone.

Anyone who PunisheU us.

COMMENTATOR:
Thls ls AIladlére...

and now Edu...

We haU eaoh other' s baok.

...Plres...

oh, lt's a fabulous shotl

And a wonderful goal
by Robert Plresl

Arsenal Iead at Anfleld.

CROWD CHEERS

I N PRENCH :

WENGER: It oreateU a sense
of unify insiUe the team .

It strengtheneU our Uesire.

PLAYERS YELL AND CHEER

We UiUn 't say gooUbye
to a title.

I N PRENCH :

WENGER:
I travelleU arounU the worlU

my brother
UiUn 't want to Ieave his village.

AnU football was not a job.

Pootball is something you Uo
when you Uon 't work.

PERGUSON : PeoPIe brought uP
in these areas have a founUation .

The UisoiPIine anU the work rate...

There ' s something that' s Uriven
insiUe Arsėne that saiU , "WelI

I want better than this. "

BERNADETTE:

WENGER: My Parents oame
to watoh Arsenal sPeoially

when I won my first Uouble.

After that,
it was a bit more Uiffioult.

My father maybe oontributeU more
than you ' U think.

He never tolU me, "Well Uone" .

No.

He saiU , "You oan Uo better" .

That strive for Perteotion

that Uesire to Uo well
oertainly oomes from him .

At that time,
you eUuoateU PeoPIe

to work harU , to give their best

anU to be reaUy to suffer.

PERGUSON : This oreates
a oertain stubbornness about you

that you know
where you 've oome from .

That working-olass ethio
is gonna be there all the time.

WENGER:
Contrary to what PeoPIe think

the 2OO4 season
was not the Rolls Royoe season .

I was not sure that we ooulU

oontinue the whole season unbeaten .

COMMENTATOR: . . .anU the whistle goes.
Arsenal have hung on .

WENGER:
You have to PrePare.

You go out on a stormy night.

COMMENTATOR:
Bolton *nderers...

unfortunate not to have taken
all three polnts.

WENGER: Show me that you oan go home
without Iosing a game.

I think it' s a real Uefinition
of humilify.

CROWD CHEERS

COMMENTATOR:
A mammoth psychologlcal boost.

A huge wln at Hlghbury for Arsenal.

HEN RY: Highbury,
in those harU moments gave us...

everything .

Life...

Power...

will , Uesire.

PANS SI NG :
*rsenal *

*rsenal FC

WENGER: There is something sPeoial
about Highbury.

I still go baok.

When you ' re half a mile away,
you still Uon 't see the staUium .

I NDISTI NCT STREET CHATTER

You Iook Uown ...

you see alreaUy the fans
waiting for you .

PANS CHANT:
*rsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal

WENGER: You go out of your ooaoh
anU you go through your suPPorters.

PANS CHEER AND APPLAUD

Everything was small ,
the oorriUors were small .

But all the anoestors haU
their sPirit in there.

Are you OK?

When you took a oorner at Highbury

you ooulU shake the hanU
of the fans.

You ooulU sPeak
with the suPPorters.

Or worse, you know.

After games

the fans knew we were in the Uressing room
with the oonneotion on the wall .

PLAYERS LAUGH

The PIayers resPonUeU
by oPening the winUow.

So I haU Ian Wright
shouting with the fans

" I will see you when I oome out, "
you know?

Sometimes I neeU to have
that feeling again , you know?

AnU I go uP the roaU
anU go Uown , Iike before.

It was real .

AnU you oannot finU that baok

when you builU a new staUium .

REPORTER: Arsenal are plannlng
to move out ofhlstorlc Hlghbury

REPORTER 2 :
Arsenal spentyears ofplannlng

and mllllons ofpounds

on a plan to move
to a new stadlum.

DEI N : We haU to move.
There was no Uoubt about it.

We haU a wait Iist of
about 5O ,OOO PeoPIe for tiokets.

I ooulU see ourselves Ieft behinU .

PANS SI NG :
*helsea, Chelsea

*helsea, Chelsea,
Chelsea, Chelsea *

*helsea, Chelsea, Chelsea

WENGER:
During that season

Chelsea was, for a Iong PerioU ,
toP of the Ieague.

Abramovioh oame in ...

anU there was no finanoial fair PIay.

REPORTER: The blggest spendlng spree
ln footballlng hlstory...

REPORTER 2 :
76 mllllon pounds ' worth of talent

to brlng the Premlershlp tltle
to West London.

WENGER: It was the iUeal moment
to buy football olubs

beoause you ooulU Uo
what you wanteU .

I tolU the PIayers

" It' s now or never. "

PAN :
Go on , Chelsea!

KEOWN :
Wenger haU got it to fever Pitoh .

PANS SI NG :
*ome on Chelsea, Come on Chelsea

You UiUn 't wanna be
in the team that Iost.

COMMENTATOR:
Bergkamp. . . Vlelra...

a captaln 's contrlbutlonl

CO-COMMENTATOR:
They've absolutely carved them open.

WENGER: The vibes
ooming out of the team

are always UiotateU by the fans.

They know if it' s a real team
out there.

COMMENTATOR:
Edu puts lt lnl

It's all happened lnslde 2O mlnutesl

BERG KAM P:
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" .

AnU that' s what we UiU .

WENGER:
I have the aUUiotion gene.

One negative siUe effeot

is that you Uon 't UeveloP
some asPeots of your Personalify

that you ooulU have UeveloPeU
in your Iife.

More sensitivify, more oaring
about PeoPIe.

That' s where my Uaughter starteU
at sohool .

AnU this sohooI

has seen the Premier League troPhy
anU the PA CuP.

I feel guilfy.

My Passion oreateU selfishness.

WENGER I N I NTERVI EW:
Every nlght.

Llke I have my dlnner,
I have my football game.

Sometlmes of course, on Sundays,
you have so many games that uh...

ln the end, you go to bed,
you don 't know whatyou have seen anymore.

My Passion maUe me

not to take oare enough
of PeoPIe arounU me.

I woulU 've IoveU
to have a bigger family.

AnU the faot that I was
so foouseU on footbalI

I ' m toUay very gratefuI

to have a Uaughter.

Certainly,
my balanoe was too muoh in favour

of the olub anU not enough
in favour of my family.

I try to rePair that now.

HE CHUCKLES

ComPetition at all oosts

is something that Uestroys
a Part of your Personalify.

This Uesire of hating to Iose

makes you sometimes
someboUy inhuman .

HEN RY: At the time,
we were going for the treble.

WRIGHT:
Arsėne Wenger, mentally...

woulU 've been one of
the harUest weeks in his football oareer.

KEOWN :
We haU a week of trauma.

MaUness.

WENGER:
I maUe a mistake.

I PIayeU the regular team
oos it was Man UniteU .

CROWD ROARS
- COMMENTATOR: It's Ryan Glggsl

Back to Scholesl

The treble dream ls over.

WENGER:
We went into the Chelsea game

Physioally UiminisheU .

CROWD CLAMOU RS

We oollaPseU .

COMMENTATOR:
Wayne Brldge could wln lt. . . he hasl

WRIGHT:
Going out the PA CuP

going out of the ChamPions League

anU the Pressure of being
The Invinoibles.

WENGER:
You go very quiokly

into oonfiUenoe orisis.

Every Ioss beoomes more Uiffioult

to rePair the Uamage Uone.

HEN RY: There is so muoh haPPening
in the season

that PeoPIe Uo not. . . know.

REPORTER: Arsenal's world
has turned upslde down thls week.

HEN RY: It was taboo
to talk about mental health .

JOU RNALIST:

Do you know the amount of Pressure
that you have to go through

Uuring a season?

Beoause you ' re the go-to guy,
beoause you ' re the ooaoh .

WENGER:
You have suoh a orazy soheUule

that if it was toUay,
it woulU be a big , big blow.

LiverPool , 2OO4 . GooU PriUay.

The Ueoisive moment of that season .

I still oan remember toUay

that tension in the staUium .

COMMENTATOR:
And turned ln by Saml H*pläl

HEN RY:
When Miohael Owen sooreU

I felt Iike Highbury UieU .

COMMENTATOR:
Gerrard...

oh and he 's plcked out
Mlchael Owenl

CROWD WH ISTLES AND JEERS

I felt Iike something was gone.

HALP TI ME WH ISTLE BLOWS

WENGER:
We were in shook.

How quiokly you oan go from

being on a high to a Iow,
it was unbelievable

in four or five Uays.

KEOWN : I 've never been
in a Uressing room that was so Iow.

Down , hurt, wounUeU .

WENGER:
The manager oan reUuoe orisis time.

That is something very imPortant.

" Invinoible" is IinkeU
with a mental resilienoe.

It is something UeePer.

A refusal of Uefeat at any oosts.

CROWD CHEERS AND ROARS

Don 't give in ever.

AII I oan remember is me
ooming out of the tunnel .

I just wanteU to go baok on the fielU

anU reotify what haU been Uone.

WENGER:
The sPeoial PIayers

they finU solutions at the moment
where you neeU them .

Wow, Iet's go.

CROWD CLAMOU RS

COMMENTATOR:
Henry...

past Hamann,
who got nowhere near hlm...

Por him to oome uP
with a goal Iike that

in a game Iike that,
after a week Iike that...

it was SuPerman stuff.

...and stlll golng, Thlerry Henryl

When I took that balI

I saiU to myself,
" I ' m going to goaI

no matter what. "

COMMENTATOR: Runnlng at Hamann,
and away from hlm...

runnlng at Carragher,
and away from hlml

Stlll Thlerry Henryl

Fantastlc goall
- CROWD CHEERS

A slmply sensatlonal solo effortl

HEN RY:
When I sooreU that goaI

I felt Iike we all sooreU it.

AnU I felt Iike everything oame baok

to a. . .
HE EXHALES DEEPLY

COMMENTATOR: Dennls Bergkamp,
Ilfted over the top for Thlerry Henry...

WENGER: It was just Iike a maohine
working on full oylinUers again .

COMMENTATOR: And all the traumas
of the week are Ieft behlndl

WENGER:
We haU PasseU the Uoubt PerioU

oome baok to full strength .

Wow.

CROWD CHANTS I NDISTI NCTLY

REPORTER: Do they have
the word "choklng" ln French ?

That's not the klnd of word
I have ln my dlctlonary, so...

REPORTER:
I dldn 't thlnk lt was.

PANS SI NG :
*re you watchlng? Are you watchlng?

*re you watchlng, To*enham ?

*re you watchlng, To*enham ?

WENGER:
Just before the game

we knew that with a Uraw
we were ohamPions.

PANS SI NG :
*e Iove you Arsenal, we do...

I N PRENCH :

COMMENTATOR:
Henry. . . Iook at that

away from Redknapp...

BERG KAM P:
We knew exaotly from eaoh other

where we woulU PIay
on the Pitoh .

COMMENTATOR: Plres ln the mlddle. . .
lt's Dennls Bergkamp

and Vlelral

PANS YELL AND CHEER

Everyone knew what to Uo.

PANS YELL AND CHEER

That' s an amazing feeling .

COMMENTATOR:
Bergkamp...

here 's Vlelra...

and Robert Plres makes lt twol

It's brllllant from Arsenall

BERG KAM P:
This football is olose to Perteotion .

That summeU uP Arsėne ' s vision .

What a PIeasure.

HE LAUGHS

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS
- CROWD CHEERS

COMMENTATOR:
AndArsenal are champlons.

PANS CHEER AND SHOUT

WENGER:
This team was a Perteot mi*ure

of oontinental influenoe
on the way to see footbalI

but in a British environment
anU with British oultures.

PANS CHEER

Perteot immigration by resPeoting
Iooal values.

Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh !

Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh !

Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh !

WENGER BREATHES HEAVI LY

WENGER: I tolU them ,
" It' s Uown to you now.

If you want to ease off

anU just aooePt that you beoome
a normal human being

onoe he has aohieveU something ...

or Uo you want to Uo something sPeoial ...

COMMENTATOR:
It's Reyesl

...beoome immortal? "

KEOWN :
It was another Uay in the sun .

The troPhy' s there.

CROWD CHEERS

We go a goal Uown .

I N PRENCH :

WH ISTLE BLOWS

CROWD CHEERS

WENGER: There is something symbolio
in Patriok Vieira' s Uestiny.

COMMENTATOR: Maglc ball
from Bergkamp to Patrlck Vlelral

WENGER:
PeoPIe questioneU me when I arriveU .

The first PIayer I bought was Patriok.

What a PIayer.

COMMENTATOR:
The bulld-up beglns...

to a maglcal, maglcal moment.

PI NAL WH ISTLE BLOWS
- CROWD CHEERS

Arsenal have gone through
an entlre Ieague campalgn wlthout Ioslng.

HE BREATHES HEAVI LY

CONPETTI CAN NONS BOOM
- CROWD CHEERS

VI EI RA:
You never know...

how goodyou are,
you never know where you can go

and I thlnk thls team wlll be
remembered forever now.

It was just one big joy.

It was fantastio to be Part of it.

It' s the highest that you oan aohieve
as a team .

HEN RY:
We all beoame inUiviUually invinoible

but we are " Invinoibles" .

To be able to aohieve that,
it' s seoonU to none.

REPORTER: "I thlnk we can go
the whole season unbeaten "

well, he was a man ahead ofhlmself,
wasn 't he ?

He sald that 1B months ago
and today he 's flnally been proved rlght.

WENGER:
It was the moment

where I fulfilleU the Uream of my Iife.

The faot that I ooulU oonvinoe this grouP

to aohieve something that they...

woulU not think
woulU be Possible.

I 've Uone my job in a Perteot way
one year...

anU I ' m so ProuU for having Uone it.

DISTANT CHANTS ECHO

I NDISTI NCT RADIO CHATTER

WENGER:
Look well at the Pitoh here

that' s the Pitoh where we ' II make
a Uisaster in a few minutes.

Sometimes I wonUer...

was something broken
after that invinoible season?

Beoause I haU Uone
what I really wanteU UeePIy.

PLAYERS YELL I NDISTI NCTLY

Is it a symbol?

Is it IinkeU with me?

That after that, when I thought
I haU aohieveU the highest IeveI

that I UiUn 't Uo it again?

I N PRENCH :

We were there,
anU he was there, anU ...

we olimbeU uP the mountain ,
but, yeah . . . what now?

WENGER:
I meet many huge ohamPions.

They talk to you
only about what they Iost...

beoause suooess is easy to absorb

but the Uefeat remains forever.

Highbury...

my soul .

TRAI N RATTLES

The Emirates...

my suffering .

I ooulU see that times
woulU be more Uiffioult.

We starteU with a Projeot
at over 2OO million

that we ooulU basioally afforU .

Then we finisheU at 42B million .

PERGUSON :
What it oost to get the new staUium ...

it Ieft them bare.

WENGER:
2OO7 was a Ueoisive Point.

OK.

It' s the first time I ooulU feel
there were tensions insiUe the boarU .

DaviU Dein haU an agreement
with Stan Kroenke

he wanteU to bring in .

I was torn between
being Ioyal to the olub

anU being Ioyal to DaviU .

He aotually wanteU to Ieave.

AnU I saiU to him ...

"You have to stay, Arsėne. "

I still toUay wonUer
if I UiU the right thing .

Beoause Iife was never
exaotly the same after.

REPORTER:
Arséne, you have some news to tell us.

I e*ended my contract
wlth Arsenal Football CIub.

That ls some good news
foryou, I hope.

It's good news for me.

I thought, " I have now
to go to the enU of this Projeot. "

I ooulU 've gone
to the Prenoh national team

the English national team twioe
or three times, even .

I ooulU 've gone twioe
to Real MaUriU .

I ooulU 've gone to Juventus,
to Paris Saint Germain

even to Man UniteU .

Very good, very good, very good.

My fatal flaw is that...

I Iove too muoh where I am .

Where I was.

HEN RY:
It's gonna be dlfflcult.

Manl

WENGER:
Onoe we moveU into the staUium

between one anU two,
we moveU to three anU four.

We Iost our best PIayers.

HEN RY:
After Mr Deln Ieft

I needed to be certaln
of where the club was golng

and I wasn 't,
and I've chosen to go.

WENGER:
Before, we Iost them at SO PIus.

After, we Iost them at 25 PIus.

HE EXHALES

To work with restrioteU resouroes

anU keeP the olub in a Position
where we oan Pay our Uebts baok.

Prom 2OOG to 2O1 5

I Personally think I UiU my best job.

KEOWN : There ' s Iots of reasons,
finanoial reasons

boarU struggles,
the new staUium ...

but I think he almost
beoame a bit aUUioteU

to wanting to Prove
he ooulU win another Premier League.

WENGER: To be stubborn
oan be a strength anU a weakness.

PAN : Wenger won 't change hls tactlcs.
He won 't change lt, faml

PAN 2 : Not ln a tltle race,
season after season.

Ifan*hlng, we 're golng backwards.

Wlthout strong bellefs,
you do nothlng ln Ilfe

because you change every day,
you go one day rlght and one day Ieft.

CROWD CHEERS

I am the rlght man
to Iead thls club further, and that's lt.

It's not about popularlty

lt's about competence.

PLAYERS YELL

WRIGHT: I think one
of his worst statements was

" Pourth is Iike a troPhy" .

KEOWN :
What we saw on the Pitoh ohangeU .

It beoame very teohnioal ,
almost too teohnioal .

Yes, he ooulU 've gone
on many oooasions, but he UiUn 't.

AnU Arsenal gave
a Iot to him as well .

WRIGHT:
The game against Chelsea...

it was his 1 OOOth game.

CROWD CHEERS

G-O the final soore in that game.

The greatest manager
in Arsenal ' s history

anU the PIayers Pertorm Iike that.

PI ERS MORGAN :
How many of thls team

would get ln The Invlnclbles or
elther of Wenger's double-wlnnlng teams?

Zero.

There UiUn 't seem to be
any aooountabilify

for PeoPIe who PIayeU Poorly.

They took his kinUness for weakness.

HEN RY:
The boss haU that magnifioent attribute

of seeing the gooU always.

But at one Point also

you neeU to see what you have
anU what' s haPPening .

PANS CHANT:
*o new contract, no new contract

*o new contract, no new contract

COMMENTATOR:
Arséne Wenger, he 's not happy

he seems to be ge*lng more and more
wound up at every declslon.

DIXON :
It was horrible.

The fall from graoe

but it' s his own making in the enU .

Arsenal haU its hooks in Arsėne

anU he ooulUn 't break free.

PANS CHANT: *here 's our money gone ?
Where 's our money gone ? ♪

*e want our Arsenal back
We want our Arsenal back *

BERG KAM P:
That must not have been a nioe PerioU

but it' s all Uown to Uoubt in his minU .

Maybe it woulU 've been easier
if he woulU 've maUe a Ueoision .

PAN :
The power, the money...

he took that over what was best
for Arsenal Football CIub.

COMMENTATOR:
More slgns ofArsenal dlsgruntlement...

these have become
lncreaslngly regular.

PANS CHANT: *e want Wenger out,
say we want Wenger out ♪

WENGER:
I ' m very UemanUing with myself.

I shoulU have UelegateU more.

Have I Iost the qualify
of my juUgment?

I Uon 't know.

But my UeUioation ,
my Uesire to Uo welI

was exaotly the same.

PANS SI NG :
*e want Wenger outl Wenger outl

But I wish that you will see again

Arsenal 2O oonseoutive years

to qualify for the ChamPions League.

PANS CHANT:
*o new contractl No new contractl

*o new contractl No new contractl

He kePt them in EuroPe every year.

You know...

AnU yet, he was oritioiseU .

These suPPorters
maybe shoulU be ashameU .

I thought in the. . .
some movies in HollywooU

where there ' s always a great enUing

or Sir AIex,
that haU a great enUing .

Most of the time,
enUings are not great.

NEWS PRESENTER:
Breaklng news comlng to us here

Arséne Wenger,
the Arsenal manager

ls to step down
at the end of the season.

PRESS OPPICER: Hl, folks,
thanks for comlng down on short notlce

on what ls obvlously a memorable day

for Arsenal Football CIub.

IVAN GAZI DIS:
Arséne changed the game.

He set a totally new standard.

And we wlll glve hlm
the send-offhe deserves.

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER:

WOMAN : How far do you want them apart?
- Ijust thlnk wldth of the tunnel.

So then the boss lsjust Ilterally
gonna walk out, clap

and then lt's normal match day.

PANS CHEER

WENGER:
It' s the enU of your Iife.

At Ieast of one Iife.

Like a funeral .

So after 22 years ln charge

how dldyou thlnkyou 'd expect
to celebrate the emotlons of the occaslon ?

PANS SI NG : ne Arséne Wengerl
There 's only one Arséne Wenger ♪

ne Arséne Wenger

WENGER:
On the Uay...

everyboUy' s nioe with you

anU one week before

you haU to faoe
a Iot of oritioism .

Arséne Wenger, the vlslonary

Arséne Wenger, an lnsplratlon.

PI RES I N PRENCH :

AN NOU NCER:
One of football's blggest flgures

ln thls global age of ours

and most lmportantly,
a speclal man.

VI EI RA:
Arsėne...

Ieft Arsenal ...

out of the baok Uoor

but even not the baok Uoor,
I woulU say the baok winUow.

AN NOU NCER:
Thls, then, ls Arséne Wenger.

The greatest manager
we have ever had.

PANS APPLAUD AND CHEER

PIease glve hlm
the greatest welcome you can.

BYSTANDERS APPLAUD

WENGER:
You think about when you arriveU ...

all the PIayers that you manageU ...

beoause you realise
that it' s the enU .

PLAYERS APPLAUD
- Thankyou all very well

for havlng me
for such a Iong tlme.

I know that's not easy.

PANS CHANT I NDISTI NCTLY

I wlll mlss you.

CROWD APPLAUDS

WENGER:
I manageU to oontrol my emotional siUe.

But of oourse,
the enU of a Iove story

is always saU .

GAZI DIS: Arséne wlll always
have a place at the club.

Today lt's too early to talk about
what that mlght Iook Ilke down the road.

Thankyou all for belng
such an lmportant part ofmy Ilfe

and hope to see you soon.

Well done. Bye-bye.

CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS

PANS SI NG :
*here 's only one Arséne Wenger

ne Arséne Wenger

WENGER:
I regret.

I shoulU have gone somewhere else.

I iUentifieU myself oomPIetely
with the olub

anU that was the mistake I maUe.

Now there is now sPeoial reason
for me to go there.

AII the rest is Purely emotion ...

anU that is Iess imPortant.

CH I LDREN CHATTER I NDISTI NCTLY

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER

PHOTOG RAPHER:
- ALL:

BYSTANDERS APPLAUD

WENGER:
My village, they are ProuU

that they ProUuoeU a guy who was

internationally-known
as a football man .

I NDISTI NCT CHATTER I N PRENCH

They think, rightly so, oertainly
that they oontributeU to that.

If haPPiness is to Iove
the Iife that you IeaU

I was very haPPy
beoause I wanteU this Iife.

I beoame Iess religious

but the imPortanoe
of sPiritual values

was always Present.

Even in a game

something that unites PeoPIe

is more than the ball .

They are guiUeU by something
bigger than that.

That makes them really be together.

COMMENTATOR: Maglc ball
from Bergkamp to Patrlck Vlelral

WENGER:
This team beoame invinoible.

COMMENTATOR:
Fabulous shotl Wonderful goall

WENGER:
They manageU to aohieve something

that they woulU not think Possible.

You oan have as muoh talent
as you want to

but what will make
a Projeot suooessfuI

is always gonna be the PeoPIe.

The one who Put it together...

is Arsėne.

He was the father of our Projeot.

Invinoible.

PERGUSON :
I IoveU those games.

Yeah , I IoveU those games
against Arsenal .

They were fantastio.

I think Arsėne
anU myself are Uinosaurs.

We UiUn 't Uo so baUIy.

CROWD CHEERS
- HORNS TOOT

I won 1 S Ieagues

but I was never near
going through a season unUefeateU .

The aohievement...

it stanUs asiUe.
It stanUs above everything else.

AnU it was Arsenal ' s.

WENGER:
I Uream about football ...

about what I have Uone.

Where UiU I Uo well?
Where UiU I not Uo well?

I ooulUn 't believe
that football oan be a job.

That, for me,
was on a Uifferent PIanet.

My Iife, on that front,
is a miraole.

CAMERAS CLICK

Pear guiUes the restriotion
of our ambition .

You have not to be soareU .

Be auUaoious...

be ambitious.

Your Iife oan be wilUer
than your wilUest Uream .