They don’t pull punches on the television these days. The cult of personality has seen to that. Nobody is safe and occasionally there will be retribution from those on the end of criticism.
Arsene Wenger could not resist a week ago when he was the subject of a Gary Neville torrent during the Carabao Cup final. That was an immediate response but this one, from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, has been under consideration for six months.
‘I was very aware of those comments,’ Oxlade-Chamberlain grinned after being named man of the match at Anfield. Neville was again a target.