The sacking of John Toshack - accelerated, perhaps, by defeat at Highbury? - leaves a certain Nicolas Anelka in limbo.

There's little argument that he's been a disastrous signing, especially for that sort of money, and to make matters worse, he was quoted in this morning's papers as saying: 'If they send me on loan then I'll never return here. The moment they have no confidence in me there's no point being here.'

You have to say, it took him over a year to be that depressive in London, didn't it.