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...It was on show last week, as American and European liberals cheered the re-election of a leader in another hemisphere whose domestic record is mostly unknown to them....
...The leading man is unknown outside Japan, and the story slinks from violent Yakuza thriller and gumshoe mystery to kitchen-sink family drama and witty character study....
...He achieved it through the combination of scouting relatively unknown players from France and elsewhere and importing them at bargain prices, while revolutionising the club’s training methods and style of...
...The Jordanian royal was almost unknown when he ran against Sepp Blatter for Fifa’s presidency last May. He was also only 39, absurdly young by Fifa standards....
...Arsène Wenger of Arsenal, say, has always striven for a fast-passing attacking game. Moyes, by contrast, tailors Everton’s style to each new opponent....
...Wenger discovered the unknown teenagers Nicolas Anelka and Cesc Fabregas. He showed British clubs the benefits of international scouting. He was a pioneer in nutrition, too....
...He is thought to believe that Arsène Wenger, the manager, wields too much power in the club....
...Biermann tells the story of how Wenger in 2004 was looking for an heir to Arsenal’s all-action midfielder Patrick Vieira. Wenger wanted a player who could cover lots of ground....
...The idea had originated with Holland’s “Total Football” side of the 1974 World Cup, when Johan Cruyff and Rinus Michels turned the relatively unknown Jan Jongbloed into an extra defender who could play 20...
...You have a raft of unknowns and frankly the answer of those will have a big impact on what the market focus will be in March. So I’d be very cautious about making any prediction about that....
...That is why no club hires a woman – stupid fans and players would object – and why it was so brave of Milan to appoint the unknown Sacchi, and Arsenal the unknown Wenger....
...He spoke, too, of the impact a player can have if he is unknown to the opposition, but that is a touch ingenuous....
...Most managers of big clubs look like that: think of Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger or Marcello Lippi. It is therefore strange to find Martin Jol managing Tottenham Hotspur....
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