Irony

Gorse Fox loves the irony of a report in today's papers. The report was discussing the disgraceful diving that has blighted several of the World Cup games. There were quotes from Franz Beckenbauer, Gordon Taylor, and (wait for it) Arsene Wenger! Apparently Arsene Wenger said:

"These things must be looked into after the match for retrospective action"

The Gorse Fox could hardly contain his breakfast! Cousteau-cub phoned up, in tears of laughter, to read the same quote from her paper. This is like John Prescott saying "People should be above reproach in public office" (which, to be fair, he didn't).

Just to remind those who may not be familiar with English football... Arsene Wenger is manager of Arsenal The Forces of Darkness who have
been one of the greatest proponents and practioners of the black arts of diving, referee intimidation, whining, and whingeing that we have seen in the Premiership. The ridiculous part about it is that they do not need to - they can actually play good football, but still let themselves down time and again.

(There were rumours that they were installing a barometric chamber in their new Emirates stadium to help them recover more quickly from all the diving, and GF believes that they have a special order with Nike for Football-flippers).

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