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Only one thing is keeping Arsene Wenger at Arsenal - and it's not his ability to win the title

Arsene Wenger [Photo: Courtesy]

A London cabbie picked me up one day last week and, ­inevitably, the conversation turned to football. He was an Arsenal fan, he told me, so I asked him: “Are you In or Out?”

“I’m Out,” he said. “But I struggle to admit it. And I just can’t bring myself to write it on social media because he’ll always be the man who gave us the Invincibles.”

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