Ranting is part of the game

FIVE days to the start of the Premiership season and already the mud is flying like a muck-spreader on overtime.

Arsene Wenger accuses Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard of a ‘‘reckless and dangerous’’ challenge on Patrick Vieira in the Community Shield.

Brian Clough surfaces, amid revelations that another drink would have killed him, to have a go at Arsenal for their disciplinary record.