Times have changed since Wenger managed Monaco - and smoked in the dugout

Arsenal have been drawn to play Monaco in the last 16 of the Champions League, exactly the opponents manager Arsene Wenger had hoped for before the draw.

Wenger managed Monaco from 1987 to 1994, winning the Coupe de France with them in 1991.

Football has changed a lot in the years since he left; it’s hard to imagine any manager now smoking in the dugout, as Wenger did during his time in France!

Hmm, makes him seem a bit hypocritical for reprimanding Jack Wilshere over an occasional cigarette.

Wenger has said in the past he was an occasional smoker.

“There is smoking and then there is smoking. You did get players who'd smoke 40 cigarettes a day but now it is much less,” he said.

“When I was a player, nobody would ever tell you that you should not smoke. We were driving home in coaches where you had to open the windows in winter to see each other.

“I never smoked a lot and never when I played. But when I became a young coach I had an assistant who smoked and, at 3am in the morning when you have lost a big game, I might have one.”

What about at 3pm while the game is on Arsene?

Hat tip: Bleacher Report