If this was pitched as a battle between two of the three oldest managers in English league football, the Premier League's old guard were enjoying two very different seasons. Seventy-year-old Roy Hodgson is basking in an Indian summer in south London. Sixty-eight-year-old Arsene Wenger is fighting against the biting cold and enduring the winds at Arsenal. No longer is he the omnipotent force. Arsenal needed to make a statement after the impending departure of Alexis Sanchez was rubber-stamped late on Friday evening. Nothing will alter the mismanagement between May and January, nor the underachievement that made the Chilean want for Manchester and truly meaningful silverware. Yet Wenger has...
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