Top 7 innocuous things banned by football managers

Mars bars

Arsene Wenger joined Arsenal in 1996 as an unknown Frenchman who had been coaching in Japan. Most fans were left unimpressed and there was more frustration when he cracked down on the players’ chocolate-eating-habits.

Before his first game in charge, Wenger banned the team from eating chocolate, provoking outrage: “We were travelling to Blackburn and the players were at the back of the bus chanting ‘we want our Mars bars!’” Having grown up in a restaurant, Wenger knew the importance of nutrition and was not going to back down.