If Arsenal had defended their goal on Saturday with quite the enthusiasm that Arsene Wenger and Jack Wilshere defended their character on Wednesday night then maybe Troy Deeney would have kept quiet.
The Watford striker has stung the Arsenal contingent, from staff to squad, with his cutting accusation that they lacked ‘cojones’ in their 2-1 defeat at Vicarage Road.
A case of the truth hurting, perhaps, considering this is a side that has repeatedly lived down to the claim over the 12 years since Patrick Vieira left, but at least there was a semblance of fighting spirit on the eve of Arsenal’s Europa League clash with Red Star Belgrade on Thursday.