Family life chez Wenger off limits

“Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home,” Arsene Wenger deadpanned in 2002 when Alex Ferguson insisted Manchester United were a better team than the Frenchman’s Gunners.

Maybe he was talking literally. Wenger keeps his family life off limits, but the cameras click on the rare occasions he attends a public function with his striking wife, Annie Brosterhous (57), a former schoolteacher near Monte Carlo and basketballer.

The couple live in the village of Totteridge with the daughter Leah, who will be 17 next month, and eschew the London social scene and restaurant circuit.