THE man with the red shirt and the puce face was in no doubt. “It’s like George bloody Graham’s back in charge,’’ he bellowed, before stomping out of the Emirates, his cry scarcely audible over the cat-calls that greeted this result.

Arsenal Football Club’s long-running battle to protect its trademark reached the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today.

FIFA may force Australia and France to abide by a restriction on which players they can pick for next month’s controversial friendly in Melbourne.