Wenger has nowhere to hide

If ever a man needed a break, it was Arsene Wenger. Yet football doesn’t do compassion. Instead, it does Champions League draws that reek of danger and seem almost to mock a manager who is on edge at the best of times.

Wenger would have wanted Arsenal to draw Schalke, Basle and FC Copenhagen.

Instead, he got Marseille (not too bad), Borussia Dortmund (last season’s beaten finalists) and Napoli (a coming force under the charge of his old rival Rafael Benitez).