I helped Arsene Wenger get Arsenal job despite being a Tottenham legend

Tottenham Hotspur legend Glenn Hoddle has revealed how he helped Arsene Wenger become Arsenal manager ahead of Sunday's North London Derby.

The former Gunners boss spent 22 years in charge of the club and won countless trophies including three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups. He became the longest-serving and most successful boss in the club's history and also led Arsenal to 38 league games unbeaten during the 2003/04 campaign.

Hoddle, who became a Spurs icon during his 12-year stint at the club between 1975 and 1987, had an influence in Wenger's appointment at Arsenal. The former midfielder played under Wenger at Monaco in the late 1980s and the pair became close.

Speaking on the Quickly Kevin podcast, Hoddle explained: "Well, it wasn't a surprise to me because I tell you why, at the time I was England manager and David Dean was on the Committee of England as well as obviously when he was doing Arsenal. So David must have pestered the life out of me for about five or six different conversations I had with him and he kept asking me about him because he was the one that wanted to bring Arsene to Arsenal.

"No one knew Arsene really, not in the board at Arsenal anyway. So it's all on David's head in many ways and I just said to him one day, I remember, I sort of saying get him, I said, he's brilliant, he's excellent, he'll be successful.

"In the end, the rest is history, he brought him in and it was great working with Arsene, you know, he was different, he was certainly different. I think the French were ahead of us in their planning and training and all the things, they were ahead of us.

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"Most clubs were doing it out there, but Arsene particularly was very... he was born in Strasbourg, he was more German than he was French in many ways, attitude and his preciseness and his, you know, everything that he was done. So he ends up going, Arsene being so successful, which I'll try and keep quiet to all the Spurs fans.

"Hey, listen, I was neutral at the time. I was neutral, that was my club [Spurs] when I was eight years of age. But me and Arsene, you know, when you click with somebody in life, as soon as I met him, I was meant to be going to Paris Saint-Germain and as soon as I met Arsene, I just clicked with him as a person, as well as, you know, what we were going to do on the pitch. And we spoke about loads of other things, not just football, it was quite refreshing, it was lovely really."