Your ‘expansive’ football is too pretty to be successful

MANCHESTER CITY boss Mark Hughes has warned Arsene Wenger he will win nothing with pretty football.

Two weeks after he accused Manchester United of playing “anti-football” against the Gunners at Old Trafford, Wenger takes his team across town today to Eastlands, where old boys Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure lie in wait.

Wenger once accused Hughes of rearing a side that “had an appetite for violence” when the Welshman was boss at Blackburn and judging by his most recent remarks, the Gunners chief’s views on teams who do not play the pure brand of football he believes in have not changed.