Crushing defeat a damning indictment of Wenger way

ARSENE WENGER once revealed how life in Japan, his home for a year while in charge of Grampus Eight, had changed him.

“I come from a Latin culture and it’s instant overreaction most of the time,” he reflected. “You can kill someone in a second by overreacting. I learned a lot about control in Japan.”

If so, Wenger clearly has work to do, for when the TV cameras zoomed in for an unforgiving close-up early on in last night’s hopelessly one-sided semi-final, the Arsenal manager looked as if he had just been given the kind of news usually only delivered in a doctor’s waiting room.