I wish to talk about prejudice. Today. In a society so full of equality, anti-discrimination and diversity, there is still one terrible prejudice which remains alive and well and was demonstrated just last night, in Brighton.

There is a systematic and institutionalised discrimination against Arsenal. By not just the referees and lines-people who implement the on-field decisions wrongly against the team, but also by the Premiere League which enables this disgrace.

Yesterday evening the referee at the Brighton match actually awarded a penalty against Arsenal. If you can believe that. And merely because of a head-butt. I mean, really? It’s not like the Arsenal player stabbed anyone, raped them, is it? VAR agreed with the ref, but it would do. It’s paid by the same sponsor. Who speaks with a Liverpudlian accent. And this is not an isolated incident. Just this season, Arsenal have conceded other penalties too! Surely someone in the league must have realised this was wrong? And that’s before you consider the VAR decisions which have actually cost the team goals. Ok, they’ve all been shown to be ‘righteous’ decisions, but as judged by whom???

Some very cynical people think that Arsenal’s manager should grow up, grow a pair, stop fucking whingeing like a stuck-pig being gang-raped by a herd of bulls and, sort of, almost… ‘accept’ that shit happens to all teams and that the best way to avoid disappointment from these events is to just score more goals.

Well many of us think that that is a ridiculous attitude which completely misses the whole persecution point. Which is that when other teams are penalised by refs and VARs, it’s justified, or sufficiently ambiguous as not to matter one jot. Particularly to Arteta. But when it happens to Arsenal IT IS A CRIME AGAINST FOOTBALLL!!! IF NOT AGAINST THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY!!!!

In this respect, Manuel Arteta is indeed a worthy successor to Arsene Wenger. Because like the previous incumbent at the Emirates, he alone sees the injustice and the constant discrimination.

Whereas at Spurs, we need no ill-given penalties to lose matches. We can do it all alone, with no interference from VAR, crowd riots, snowfalls, nuffink. We can find our own ways to lose games and drop points. And do so with a consistently amazing range of new-found incompetencies.

I fucking hate football

Happy Sunday

A xxxx