Here's everything that was happening the week of September 22nd, 1996.
Arsene Wenger is stepping down as Arsenal manager after 22 years. He was first unveiled as Arsenal manager on September 22nd, 1996, and for many football fans, it will be hard to remember a time before he was Arsenal boss. The days of George Graham, Bruce Rioch and "Boring, Boring Arsenal" seem like a different lifetime now. Wenger not only changed Arsenal, he changed English football forever.
But what was world like when this bespectacled Frenchman moved to North London from Japan?
Here's everything that happened the week Wenger became Arsenal manager.
Bill Clinton was US President.
John Major was UK Prime Minister.
The Fugees ‘Ready Or Not’ was UK Number 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8
'Breakfast At Tiffanys' by Deep Blue Something was at number 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
N64 was launched in America that week.
Changing Rooms had just started on BBC2.
Sabrina The Teenage Witch aired its first episode.
