At least Arsene still has fighting spirit

THE two giant screens in the opposite corners of Villa Park taunted the home fans at half-time on Friday night, as they trumpeted out the utterly bizarre match stats, into a brass monkey St Stephen’s Day night.

With Denilson having silenced the Holte End five minutes before half-time, we duly took our cue to rub their faces in it, as a chant of “we’ve only had one shot” rung out from our end of the Doug Ellis stand.

This was soon followed by a chorus of “we’ve only had two shots”, when Diaby knocked any remaining stuffing out of the Brummy turkeys, by banging in a second so soon after the break. Yet in truth, I don’t want to contradict our manager, but it would’ve been something of a travesty if we’d trundled back down to the capital with all three points.