An insult all round at Arsenal

Arsenal players really know how to stick the knife in, don’t they? Robin van Persie, straight of out of Machiavelli’s ‘finishing-school-for-footballers’, releases a carefully worded statement that ensures that his position at Arsenal next season would be untenable.
Previously, the section of fans who would have begrudged van Persie moving away from the club in search of a new challenge were a minority, the statement released last night completely changed that.
In one, ill-advised, move Arsenal’s captain caused huge damage to the club he ‘loves’, insulted the Arsenal hierarchy and patronised t...