Jane Smith: Taking into account the events of Sunday's game against Man Utd (21 September), do you think that any of Arsenal's top players will leave the club at the end of the season and do you think this is the end of Arsene Wenger at Highbury?
Amy Lawrence: I don't envisage that. If anything, events like this tend to pull people closer together. That's certainly been the case in Arsenal's history and Wenger has a history of standing by his players. If the FA hand out absurdly draconian punishments - lengthy bans and enormous fines - then maybe one or two players will turn around and say, "What am I doing here? We're being persecuted" and wish to take their trade elsewhere. Patrick Vieira made similar steps a long time ago when he was quite young and he was getting sent off a lot. He said, "Right, that's it, I'm finished with English football". But that's what's said in the heat of the moment and I think however they might feel about this whole incident, by the time they reach the end of the season I don't think that will be a factor on whether or not they feel like leaving or sticking around in the Premiership.

Eric Morgan: We have all heard the misinformation, but how many languages does he actually speak?
AL: Good question. He is completely fluent in French and German and his English is there as well. I've heard him speaking in bits of Spanish and Italian but I don't know whether he's fluent in them. Japanese - he's certainly not fluent in but he obviously has some from his time there. I think it's a bit of a myth about the fact that he speaks fluent Japanese. When he was at the World Cup and working for Japanese TV I think they had a translator and he actually did it in English. He's the kind of a guy who'll learn a few words of everything. I expect he speaks a few words of Serbo-Croat because Boro Brimorac, his assistant, is from Croatia. I reckon he can talk to just about anybody.

Peter Heslop: How much does Wenger have to do with the debacle that is the planned new stadium?
AL: He has a lot to do with it in one respect. One of the things Wenger has done at Arsenal is revamp the club from top to bottom. When you look at the club he turned up at seven years ago and the club today there are huge differences. The stadium is the only part of the scheme of modernising Arsenal that's yet to be done. As regards the economics, the financing of it he's had very little to do with it; it's not his job. He might argue that it would be better if it was given his financial expertise. I still think it will happen and in time won't be as debilitating as it is at the moment on his capacity to buy players or whatever. It's all part of his grand plan of making Arsenal into a European super club.

Mike Garth: How did Arsene spend the seven years between retiring as a player and getting the Coach's job at Monaco? Where did he learn his coaching skills? Which smaller clubs did he coach?
AL: That's the foggiest part of his life. He was studying for what seems like quite a long time. I think that's because he started one degree and didn't finish it and then took another one. He studied for a while. He went through a coaching ladder as such. He started off with the youths at Strasbourg, he went to Cannes as assistant manager, then he went to Nancy and then he was at Monaco. He used to go around while he was learning and coaching watching football all over the place, teaching himself.

James Warrener: Did Arsene give you the impression that he subscribes to this "conspiracy theory" (ie the FA are out to get us) that us Gooners have. And if he does, is it in his opinion to the scale which he found during his time with Monaco (as was touched on in the programme).
AL: That's a good question. I have to say that for the programme we didn't actually discuss Arsenal's disciplinary situation in any great detail. Having spoken to Arsene about this problem at other times, I do think he has a bit of a persecution complex about it. If you analyse the 52 red cards that Arsenal has had, which is obviously loads more than anyone else in the past seven years, there are a few which are really harsh. Because Wenger analyses everything, he does feel that there have been too many times that Arsenal have been punished. If you make a comparison with Monaco, it was a completely different scenario. He might feel he's fighting against the odds here but he was fighting against the odds in a different way in France when Marseille were found guilty of match fixing on one occasion. I think it was a fairly frustrating week-after-week scenario when he'd look at Marseille's result and say "Here we go again". Then he was suffering because of what another team was doing, but this time the suffering is because of what's going on with his own team. It's a much more personal thing here.

Bassett Grundy: The papers are always keen to whip up so-called "mind games" between Wenger and Ferguson. Do you think there is genuinely anything in this? Does Wenger even read half of the supposed psychological barbs, do you think?
AL: I think he reads slightly more of the papers than he lets on as do most of the people in football, but I also think he's not paranoid enough about them to scour everything as some other managers do. I think the mind games are a game for both managers. I don't think either of them takes it immensely seriously. I would be convinced that Wenger doesn't go home and lose any sleep over anything Alex Ferguson has ever said and probably vice versa. However it's something that they use not only to whip each other up but partly to whip themselves up. Both managers have said in the past that the rivalry gives them an extra oomph, an extra motivation sometimes. I think as well, when it's face to face and you look at Sunday and the aftermath of Sunday it looks like they're two men who really can't stand one another. I don't believe that's true and Wenger has said to me before that they quite like each other. It would be difficult in the current circumstances for them to be friends but I would imagine in the future, when they're not managing any more or circumstances were different, they would probably sit down and have a bloody good laugh and a really great chat. They've got more in common than they think they do.

Marc Perlman: Wenger seems a very cerebral, calculating figure. How would you explain the contrast with the frequently hot-headed and violent behaviour of his players on the pitch?
AL: Well one thing you have to say is it's not Wenger who goes out there and is violent. When you've got to blame Arsene for the so-called disciplinary problems, remember he doesn't go out there and foul play, dive or elbow people or whatever it might be. He doesn't instruct them to do so either, it's a tenuous link. He doesn't condone misbehaviour but what he doesn't do is tick them off about it in general. He has a way of relating to his players which is unlike anything that you see in English football as a whole. Even when people talk about how he's coaching or how he's talking to his players and doing things, he kind of thinks they're good enough and old enough to work things out for themselves. He doesn't like to tell them what to do as a rule. Even in training, he's normally just watching and tinkering with tiny little things, but he doesn't give them instructions a lot. Probably because of that he feels in terms of discipline they ought to have control of their own discipline. He probably realises now he is going to have to talk to them about it. My guess is up until now he hasn't seen it as his job to give them lectures about their discipline. It's quite an interesting aspect of his character really.