Leeds United title winner Howard Wilkinson has revealed he turned down the Arsenal job.
Wilkinson was sacked by new owners Caspian in October 1996, a year after turning down the chance to manage Arsenal.
"Although Leeds could be big, Arsenal is and was big," he told the Daily Mail. "I met Peter Hill-Wood for lunch and talked. I got a phone call from their secretary, Ken Friar, asking me to another meeting and I said, "I don't think it's right to do it now". We'd just started the LMA and I was chairman and I thought I couldn't say one thing and do another in terms of what the LMA wanted to stand for.
"I made some good decisions but I made as many mistakes. Sunderland was the worst I ever made because I made it for the wrong reasons, because of a problem that had developed at the FA. I didn't do my usual homework.
"I talked to them on Thursday night, said yes and was there on Tuesday morning. I made all the mistakes I hadn't made before."