Hoddle, Waddle and ‘Le Professeur’ – The French Riviera’s Unrequited Love Affair

It’s midway through the 1986/87 season, and Arsène Wenger has just touched down in North London. Fresh-faced and by no means the heralded revolutionary he would become in these parts, the then Monaco manager has made arrangements with countryman Gérard Houllier to watch what he perceives to be the envy of European football.    It…