Arsene Wenger is full of surprises.
The Arsenal manger is not the most conventional of football men and he certainly doesn’t like anyone telling him what to do.
He swims against the tide on things like resting your best player so he doesn’t get injured and it appears his surprising ways extend to his music taste.
Wenger is interviewed in the French magazine Le Parisien today and reveals that the tunes he likes to listen to are about as far removed from French sophistication as you could find.
We were expecting some Serge Gainsbourg or even Edith Piaf to be on his Spotify list but instead the Arsenal boss likes a bit of reggae, especially Bob Marley, before being told of the latest injury to hit his fragile squad.
“Yes, I love his music and the man that he was.”
“He was not ‘fabricated’. He was real. I love people who do not have conventional paths and who stand out because of their talent. Raymond Devos and Pierre Desproges are also some of my favourite comedians.”
Maybe Arsene could tell some of his injured players to ‘Get Up Stand Up’ in the treatment room, or maybe when they recover from their current losing streak he can gee them up by playing ‘Redemption Song’ on full blast in the changing rooms.
