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Robert Pires has spoken about the controversy surrounding
France's trip to Australia. Despite the outcry from his
club and manager, Bob says "This game was fixed a year ago and there was no excuse not to go".
The good news for Arsene Wenger is that all 3 Arsenal players
survived the battle. And just in case that's not enough to cheer
him up, Bob says, "I have brought back a fluffy toy kangaroo
for Arsene as a present."
Pires was a key player. As well as creating the French
equaliser (the kind of walk-the-ball-into-the-net goal
that Arsenal are always trying to score) he was accused
by Kevin Muscat of spitting at the Wolves defender (although
Muscat isn't clear on what he did to draw this alleged
gob).
Yes, that's Kevin Muscat who launched the horror tackle
on Christophe Dugarry which left the Frenchman thankful
to still have something of a football career ahead of him.
Not that Muscat was trying to make the gobbing out to be any kind of excuse of course.
ArseWeb's stance on the importance of gob is on record from
the
Paddygobgate affair. To be fair, no one seems to be getting too worked up about the current incident. But Bob Pires is not the
media target that Patrick Vieira is, and the accusations come
from a man himself currently the subject of much vilification
(rather than the, errr, angelic Neil Ruddock).
So the
phlegmatic response to Muscat's allegations is no big
surprise.
Boom boom.
Incidentally, many thanks to Football365 for
suspecting me of making up the cuddly toy story. As if! Someone may have made it up, but it wasn't me
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