may 22nd
If he wasn’t still alive, James Lawton would be turning in his grave at the news that Arsenal, snarling, vicious, Arsenal, finished top of the fair play league last season. It works in a way that each yellow and red card is worth a certain number of points, and in this league less is more, so Arsenal finished top. Arsene Wenger said “It shows that we have not only won matches but won them in a fair and positive way. After the incident at Old Trafford, I said that we didn’t act in the correct way and we made a conscious effort to address our behaviour.”
Arsenal supporters also won an award for best behaved supporters and were given a great big gold star by teacher.
Not much else going on this morning at this early stage. Most of the football news is taken up with the cup final, surely being played out by two of the most odious teams in the country. Normally you’d root for the underdog if your team hadn’t made it, but that’s difficult with Milwall. I suppose the best we can hope for is plenty of red cards, a fight to the death between Wise and Ferguson on the touchline, and that somehow they both lose.
I shall be watching though.
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