I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football, if that is what he wants. The handbags come out early doors when Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger responds to Ferguson's dig about the Gunners' foreign contingent.

Having with a great show of combination, varied with puffs from his ever expiring cigar, completed this effort of genius, he chatted away incessantly on all kinds of subjects, never waiting for my remarks, but continually asking questions; and then suggested our taking a turn through the cafés chantant.

The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.

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