Football’s beauty is its unpredictability, says Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger says his undiminished, ever-lasting love of football is based on the game’s glorious unpredictability.

The veteran Arsenal boss admits that uncertainty gives him pre-match jitters but claims the game wouldn’t be so universally popular if it was logical.

“Of course I get nervous before the games because football is not mathematics,” Wenger said. “In maths every day you know that one plus one is two. In football, one player plus one player doesn’t always add up to two players.