Storm clouds coming in from Madrid

WHAT a top week for our SpudFacedNipper! On Monday, a court case involving an aged occasional prostitute collapsed, sparing him from the ordeal of having to appear as a witness.

Forty eight hours earlier, two late Cup goals had performed two useful services in a two-fingers-up kind of way: one, a reminder to those hacks who had apparently refused to believe his brilliant Emirates goal was a true drought-ender, and second, to Wenger and the press for harping on about United’s supposed late collapses.

Actually, to be fair to Arsene, he has explained that his private dressing room remarks had been taken out of context and Fergie was thus right to have gone all hairdryer about it last week.