But no, "He's been reported to the FA, I'm reporting him for his goal-scoring celebration", Halsey says. I guess we shouldn't be surprised, given Halsey's peculiar attitude to Sol Campbell's sending off against Man Utd last season. But let's just make this clear: Halsey saw the incident, of a type for which he had been instructed to issue a booking. He chose not to book Henry, but instead report him to the FA for which he will face a charge resulting in a fine and/or a ban.

Henry says in today's papers that actually he wasn't directing his kiss (and the rest) at the Everton fans, but at his wife who was sitting in the box above them and whose birthday it was. I have to say that it really didn't look like that at the time, so my initial reaction was scepticism. But it now emerges that this is also what the police told Halsey after the match! So he decided not to punish Henry, heard a mitigating factor from an independent source, and then decided to punish him after all. I like to think Arsenal fans would be ridiculing him for all this regardless of who his victim was.

I gave the ref credit yesterday for getting all the major decisions right during the game. Let's retract that praise. It seems perhaps we have another ref on our hands who likes the limelight a bit too much. We can only hope that the FA see sense, and that we don't have to see Halsey reffing an Arsenal match very often.

Rupe adds...
An FA Spokesman told Reuters today that "Arsenal would probably be warned about the conduct of their players, but that action against the player was unlikely."