His seventh FA Cup winners’ medal – a record 13th time as a whole the club have won the famous trophy – sat snugly in his pocket as he left Wembley on Saturday night, the only token of his long history of success he has bothered to keep, usually giving them to staff members. He explained, though, that the new-found sentiment was because he had beaten George Ramsay’s 19th-century record for winning the cup as a manager, rather than seeing it as some sort of leaving present to himself. Indeed, all indications were that he will be in a feisty mood when his future is discussed at the Emirates on Tuesday. “We live in a society that wants always change,” he...
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