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Way back in the dim and distant, when George Graham was the man in charge and no one had heard of the French even playing football, we had a game against Manchester London as they were then known.   During the game a lot of players ran around a bit, and waved their arms at the ref and each other.  No one got hurt, no one fell over, but the commentators from the BBC called it disgraceful, an affront, and all that sort of thing.

So the Football League acted and took away two points from Arsenal for the new offence of running around too much after the whistle had gone.  We went on and won the League and on the night we won it we sang, all night long, “You can stick your ****ing two points up your ****”

I remember it particularly because when I finally got home I put on the video recorder of and watched the game again (little wonder the wife subsequently sued for divorce) and there was the dopey prat idiot commentator before the game saying, “You can hear the Arsenal fans singing ‘We are the Champions’ because Liverpool have lost, so Arsenal are indeed the champions…” and you can clearly hear the entire crowd singing “You can stick your ****ing two points…”

I was reminded of this (the two points, not the singing) with the news that Sol Campbell has said that football authorities should deduct points for racist abuse by the crowd.  I agree 100000%, but sadly Sol, I can’t see it.   The league will deduct points from Arsenal for the players running around the ref a bit, especially if they think it will help Liverpool win the league, but action against the infinitely more vile act of racism, no, not a chance.

Meanwhile we have West Bromwich Wobbleyum, where I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem, although I haven’t been for a year or two.  And here’s a jolly statement from the Lord Wenger…

“But I will not rotate too much because there are five days before the Burnley game. There will be one or two but what we try to do is rotate a little bit without losing the balance of the team.”

And this from the official AFC web site just now…

According to Wenger, there is an outside chance that three of them (Walcott, Silvestre, Eduardo and Adebayor) will face Burnley in the FA Cup on Sunday.

And a bit later

“Fabregas and Rosicky [will return in] three weeks.”

Now that’s a thought and a half.  All those people who have torn up their tickets in disgust and vowed never to come back until Arsenal adopt the Tiny Tott approach of sacking the manager every October, must be scrabbling around in the dustbin thinking, maybe I might just give them one my try…

(c) Tony Attwood, sometime in the 21st century…