Why does viera hate arsenal

I use it as an experience to talk to the players or give them advice, but I want people to look at me as a coach. Vieira stressed that the challenges that he has faced at Nice have made him better as a coach. Nine years have passed since Vieira, 43, hung up his boots, but his coaching career still feels like it's in its infancy. He is halfway through his second full season at Nice.

After finishing seventh in his first season, they are 11th in Ligue 1 but only four points off the European qualifying places. Before that, he had two campaigns managing New York City in the MLS, having started out at Manchester City — his last club as a player — as football development executive and then head coach of their Under 21s. Each move has been strategic towards achieving his ambitions. I want to win trophies. I want to be successful. They opened every single door for me to learn the job.

Going to New York, I felt the pressure a bit more with getting the results, working with professional players for the first time… it was an unbelievable experience. The year-old stated that he elected to take charge of Nice as it is a place where he can grow.

I saw City grow and it is the same here. The philosophy of the club is develop young talent and they have big ambitions. They are building a structure to play European football on a regular basis. If one day I leave Nice, I would like people to say, 'Patrick took this club to a different level'. That's really important to me.

The off-field challenge Vieira refers to is the uncertainty created by the club's change of ownership last year when billionaire Chien Lee sold to Britain's richest man, Jim Ratcliffe. The Nice boss wants to be seen as having managed to take the club to another level.

Vieira smiles. That is the love and hate between the Arsenal fan and the United fan. But it is all about the love of the game and his knowledge for the game is unbelievable.

He is, as you say in England, a gentleman… even if he is a massive United fan! It is not a surprising admission from a man who was sent off eight times in the Premier League, a record. I still want to show the passion that I had when I was playing. I want to express myself. I don't want to pretend to be somebody I am not. Vieira admitted that Mario Balotelli's mindset 'was difficult for a collective sport'.

An inspirational leader as a player, Vieira has always set standards for others to follow, something he has taken into management. Of course I can shout. When I am not happy I will be really loud, because players need to understand there are things I cannot tolerate. People who don't respect those rules can be fined, can be out of the team. The former Arsenal midfielder revealed that Arsene Wenger is his inspiration as a manager.

Vieira shadowed Pep Guardiola but says he doesn't want to copy the Manchester City boss. One player who did not respect Vieira's rules was the mercurial Mario Balotelli. The Italy striker reported to his first pre-season training under his new manager late and unfit. Six months later, he was sold to Marseille. It was really difficult for both of us to work together, so we decided to go different ways. He added: "I was there to do a job. But it was a bit like the build-up to a boxing match - the weigh-in, the press conferences - when people forget that there'll actually be a fight.

It was great. But years later people bring up the tunnel and they don't remember the match that came after it. As Keane observed, when people recall the infamous tunnel incident, many of them don't actually remember the game itself.

With tensions spilling over before a ball was even kicked, it was primed to be a classic in the long-running rivalry between the teams and, indeed, it certainly delivered.

Just eight minutes had elapsed when Vieira headed Arsenal in front and it looked like it might just be the Gunners captain's day. United responded 10 minutes later with a deflected Ryan Giggs goal, but Arsenal re-claimed the lead before the break thanks to a thumping Bergkamp finish.

However, things swayed in the Red Devils' favour 10 minutes into the second half as a young Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in quick succession to hand his side an unlikely lead. Alex Ferguson's men had propelled themselves into a good position but, with 20 minutes to go, they were reduced to 10 men after Mikael Silvestre was deemed to have butted heads with Freddie Ljungberg.

Despite that, they held on and the proverbial icing on the cake arrived in the final minute of the game as substitute John O'Shea produced a breathtaking chip to cap a sweeping counter-attack and make it to the visitors. Winning by any means necessary versus winning in style. The Brit versus the foreigner. Fergie versus Wenger. And so it came to be that he missed, and the game went to extra-time. And so it came to be that Manchester United knocked out Arsenal.

Without this knock to morale, did they still capitulate against Leeds in the penultimate game of the Premier League season, to an 86th minute Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink winner, and to cede the title to United by the margin of a single point?

And if not, do Manchester United - having been dealt the blow of two domestic failures - still find the mental fortitude to overturn a deficit against Bayern Munich in the 91st and 93rd minute of the Champions League Final? Ultimately, this is all Sliding Doors speculative fiction. We can categorically state that within our timeline, Dennis Bergkamp definitely missed and Manchester United definitely won the treble that year.

And I can categorically state that the following morning, the United fans in my school were insufferable as hell, and that the only other kid who supported Arsenal conspiratorially ushered me over at lunchtime to inform me that he was sorry, but he supported Man United now. I could have done that. But I hated Man United, and everyone that liked them, and this fucking kid for abandoning me.

In hindsight, this moment was singularly responsible for condemning me to a lifetime supporting Arsenal and hating United. We were supposed to win. It went to extra-time, and I had to plead not to be sent to bed. Then it went to penalties. No mum, please! Just 5 more minutes! They lost. Meanwhile, Manchester United won the Premier League again.

We squandered chance after chance until, with just 20 minutes left to play , Freddie Ljungberg rounded the keeper to put as up. I went ballistic, and started excitedly recreating the goal with my own ball, rounding the tiny hallway between our lounge and kitchen as though it were the hopelessly outstretched Sander Westerveld.

Meanwhile, Manchester United won the Premier League. For the third time in a row. Their seventh in eight years. In , Wenger finally smashed it. Premier League games were a different matter. Every so often, someone would glance my way, and I would comedically bolt down the road, as if an escaped prisoner running from the guards.

There was a noted exception. There was no way I could miss this. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time. Remember the name? Though Arsenal had previously been on a Premier League record-breaking run of 30 consecutive league matches unbeaten, the loss to Everton precipitated four straight defeats.

This catastrophic collapse in form that would become something of a ritual for future Wenger sides. The fact that Wenger had endured such ridicule for insisting that his team could remain unbeaten, and then went and actually did it a year later makes it all the more remarkable.