I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
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Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.
Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?
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