The Evening Mail's Headline of something like "For god's sake, Jo, go!" was scandalous.
Memorable though, unlike most of the games under his tenure.
Agree that he did seem to be ahead of the curve vis a vis training methods, but if you don't have near instant success players will always look for a cop out.
If Wenger had struggled in his first season results-wise, Adams, Merson and co would have been very quick to say he tried to do too much too soon.