Wenger rewarded for FA Cup win with 2 year contract and blog almost complete ... now for the book !

So, a week has gone by since the FA Cup final when I finally completed the 10 month long Road to Wembley from Scotland. Over the last week, the victorious Arsenal have offered their manager a new two year contact and I have made some very small progress with getting this blog published as a book!

Those of you who have been following the blog in the latter stages of the FA Cup will know that a major sub plot was the Arsene Wenger story. On many occasions over the last three months it has looked like the ‘The Professor’ was going to be hounded out of the hot seat at The Emirates due to a combination of poor results and supporter unrest. Just when it looked like his position was untenable the Prof put together a string of fine victories culminating in the famous FA Cup final win last weekend. Prior to the Wembley triumph over Chelsea the Gunners won 7 of the last league games. Wenger went from almost unemployed to almost unsackable.

The Prof with the big prize: Wenger holds the FA Cup aloft last weekend at Wembley

On Wednesday the Professor was rewarded with a new 2 year contact. Not all of the Arsenal fans are happy about this but I am pleased to see him extend his 20 year reign at Arsenal. In my opinion without him Arsenal would very soon become a mid table team. With his guidance they could win more trophies, including the coveted Premier League title. I wish him well.

Also in the last week I have been tinkering with the text that I have produced for the blog to produce a very first experimental draft of the book ‘The Road to Wembley from Scotland’. At first sight it looks as if it will be about 500 pages, about 140,000 words and contain loads of pictures. I was hoping to turn some sort of big handle and the blog would magically become a book but it is clear that it is going to be a bit more complicated and time consuming than that. So bear with me. Updates will be posted as the culmination phase of this project progresses. I still hope to have the book out by early August. I will pop another post out hopefully with a firmer estimate of the publication date next weekend. Keep reading !