Arsene Wenger believes Twitter polls will soon decide substitutions and robots will take charge of teams in 20 years.

The former Arsenal manager made the startling claims, but says if he was the boss he would not accept it.

Wenger spent 22 years in north London before resigning at the end of last season and clearly fears for the future of his profession.

He feels that a chairman will soon come along and decide social media is the key, while stats and data mean a robot could be trusted not long after.

'I've said many times, you could imagine the next chairman who says that the social networks can make a change in the second half.,' Wenger told beIN Sports.

'That will become more and more entrenched. It will happen. I personally, would not accept it. I'm from the old school in that respect. But we're going in that direction.

'If you imagine the power of social networks. What is even worse, it's not the majority, the minority is the most extreme, it's a bit like the problem with democracy, it's a dictatorship of the minorities.

'It's not for me, there's something I call intuition, I grew up and used my own eyes.

'You can as well imagine that in 20 years, a robot will sit in front of you.'

A robot on the touchline would not have the same problems with their zips as Wenger suffered in the dugout.

The Frenchman was regularly seen struggling to do up the zip on his long trench coat and admitted he tried to improve so he didn't get caught out regularly.

'In fact, I improved in that!' he joked..

'I was conscious of that, they are too long and sometimes the zip didn't work and I struggled that.

'People were showing it so I was conscious that I was being watched!'

Funny