Jose Mourinho called him a specialist in failure, but for one night in Paris back in 2006, Arsène Wenger came so close to achieving European success. Eventual defeat by Barcelona in the Champions League crushed Wenger’s hopes of a European trophy, and they have never seriously threatened since.
Here, we look back at the men who played for Arsenal and Barcelona in the Stade de France on 17 May 2006, find out what they are up to these days, and ask whether that Final represented the start of greater things for the men on show. Or was that as good as it got?
- Telegraph