Eddie Ketiah and ref Bobby Madley beat Norwich in the EFL Cup last night.
Their German manager Daniel Farke will have to learn that big clubs in England are always favoured by gutless referees.
That’s especially true in the Premier League era, and even more so as time goes on. Are refs in the Bundesliga more democratic? I certainly hope so.
Madley should have sent off Elneny for holding back Nelson Oliveira, who was beating him for pace.
It’s a stonewall red card! But Madley gave him a yellow.
Later on Madley should have given a penalty for a foul on Husband by Debuchy, a crock who should not still be on the payroll.
A pen then would have made it 2-0 to the visitors.
Josh Murphy had left the Arsenal defence trailing to score a tidy breakaway goal in 34 minutes.
1-0 to Norwich at half-time.
Then Eddie Ketiah, an 18-year-old striker from South London, came on in 85 minutes and turned the match upside down.
When a left wing corner was flicked on by Coquelin, Ketiah stabbed home from one yard.
The tie went into extra time.
Arsenal scored, again from a corner, when Elneny hit an inswinger with a lot of pace. Five yards out, Ketiah jumped high and sent a bullet header past keeper Angus Gunn.
Gunn then made a save from Ketiah to deny the kid a hat-trick.
Tomorrow’s AGM will be a tightly-scripted farce, as usual.
The Arsenal board give away less than George Graham’s defence in their prime.
A few years ago I attended an AGM and met Le Grove, who was sitting next to me. We are now online buddies.
That day was ghastly because I saw Stan Kroenke on the stage.
Kroenke must be the coldest billionaire in the Western Hemisphere: charmless, wordless, frozen, a super-rich Yank who apparently has no personality at all.
Being an intuitive guy, someone who trusts his feelings, my reaction was: I never want to be in the same room as this man again, even a room this size.
That’s how repulsive he was.
Stan Kroenke is the owner from hell and it would take the late Hunter S. Thompson to do him justice.
Some of tomorrow’s Questions, tabled in advance by the AST, are good ones.