I saw Wenger at the Groucho club about 1am on Sunday morning, he was wearing beige chinos and sandals without socks (don't ask me why). I congratulated him and asked him what his game plan had been, he came out with his usual spiel of getting the players to believe in their own quality and to have faith in the way they want to play.

After a few lines of chang and a couple of tequillas, he basically said it was a bit like a souffle....you do the same thing over and over again and sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. He then went on to admit that he'd spent most of Friday during training on his phone playing Web Sudoku and having a what's app conversation with Patrick Vieira swapping anecodes about Sonia Tatar.

A few drinks later he becomes maudlin and brooding, he wants to know why Giroud is facebook friends with his daughter.