Can you give a detailed account of the feud between Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger?
As during the Cold War, the main cause of the enmity between Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger has been a mixture of fear and misunderstanding. The greatest rivals of the Premier League era meet for the first time in the Champions League this evening. A place in the final is on the line so the stakes have never been higher, but a return to name-calling and mud-slinging is unlikely. “He knows a lot about French wine, which helps,” is Wenger’s rather flippant explanation. A myth has developed that the dilution of the Premier League’s longest-running soap opera is the result of Arsenal’s decline as a domestic force, but their relationship is far more complex than that. Arsenal were Manchester United’s closest challengers for most of last season, as Wenger repeatedly points out, while the ill feeling became most personal at the start of 2005, when Ferguson’s side were at their weakest for more than a decade, eventually finishing 18 points behind Chelsea. However, just a few years later t
