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Joe Mewis

'With five minutes left, I yelled at Frank Leboeuf that my dream had come true – he said, ‘What?! Just concentrate on the game!’ Then I scored to make it 3-0' Emmanuel Petit on France's 1998 World Cup win

Emmanuel Petit.

Few players in football history can boast of having the kind of summer that Emmanuel Petit enjoyed in 1998.

The midfielder’s domestic campaign ended with a Premier League and FA Cup double, as Petit’s decision to part ways with reigning Ligue 1 champions Monaco and reunite with his old boss Arsene Wenger at Arsenal was quickly vindicated.

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