Intro:

As the two London teams prepare for the first day of the English Premier League season, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said that his former Crystal Palace counterpart Tony Pulis performed "a miracle" at the club in the previous campaign

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager (on Tony Pulis leaving his post at Crystal Palace):

"Yeah it was a complete surprise to me and what kind of consequence that will have on Crystal Palace I don't know. The only thing you can say, he has done a remarkable job last season and he made a miracle and I don't know really why he left, but it took me by surprise."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager (on whether he'd ever seen something as strange as the incumbent manager of the season leave his post hours before the next campaign begins):

"No, I haven't seen that, so that means you can always be surprised, and I was at the manager's meeting on Monday with Tony Pulis and nothing indicated that he would not be here tomorrow afternoon."