Wenger: "The fire is always ready but now it looks as though you are burned on the village green quicker than ever before.
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"Rafa Benitez has done remarkably well at Liverpool and what is happening there is not down to sport or to results. It is down to internal differences.
"I am fortunate I have had the freedom and the support of my board to work as I want ever since I arrived in England. My directors understand you do not get success without that backing.
"But you need experience to realise that and I am not sure that everyone who has just bought their way into the game can appreciate that."
"What is strange is that a manager can pay the price for over-achieving.
"It cannot be right that the guy has put the club in a position where they never dreamed of being and, 14 games later, he is sacked.
"We are always in a fragile position because you are quickly exposed when you don't have good results.
"But if you analyse the modern game, it seems to be more and more about politics now."