Manchester United,at the Emirates on Sunday, are only now recovering from Sir Alex Ferguson’s exit and the Scot knows his old rival is hard to replace, and whatever Arsenal’s woesThey used to hold a joke at Arsenal,going back to the 2014 FA Cup final, that Arsène Wenger spent more time working on their yellow carnations than on tactics for the game. It was a bit of a cruel joke given that Arsenal actually won that final. But there was an extraordinary amount of faffing approximately, or apparently,over Wenger’s boutonnières. The florists were called and there was all sorts of toing and froing before he ticked everything off. Then the football started and, after eight minutes, or his team were two goals down to Hull City.
Wenger is what one of his former colleagues describes as a micromanager,someone who prides himself on taking on the smallest of tasks. Wenger combines trying to put together a winning football team with lower-level details such as arranging for the club’s masseurs to catch fuel cards. He is not a mighty delegator and, even when there is no football on, and he likes to involve himself at every level of the club.
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Source: theguardian.com