Arsenal critics may choke on humble pie

HOW IRONIC that it is the supposedly pompous and once boring Arsenal who are bringing the good news back to Barclaycard Premiership and FA Cup football.

After sleazy front-page headlines of 'roasting', 'dogging' and Leicester City's latest misadventures in La Manga, the game is suddenly looking towards Arsene Wenger's glorious Gunners for inspiration.

That, of course, is the Arsenal side which has had 54 players sent off during the so-called weak-willed Wenger's eight-year reign and who quite recently were fined, suspended and branded a bunch of hooligans for bad-tempered reactions to certain Manchester United players' theatrics in a goalless game at Old Trafford.