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THE CROW - By CATHERINE ETOE & RICHARD OSLEY

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Cry baby Wenger still beats dunderhead Jol hands down

THERE’S no point denying it. It was a wonderful goal. Knowing he scored it moments after coming off the bench makes it all the more marvellous.
In fact, only the most mealy mouthed of fans would fail to have the good grace to acknowledge a display of skill that special, even in a player who isn’t one of your own.

But all you Gooners who reckon you’d have beaten rubbish West Brom if Jens Lehmann had got his flappy paws to Darren Carter’s wonder shot on Saturday are barking up the wrong tree entirely.
Like Arsene Wenger blubbered in his interviews afterwards, his team played like a bunch of kids kicking a balloon around a car park wearing plastic sandals, wet nappies and blindfolds.
At least I think that’s what Professor Baldrick sobbed, sorry said, because it was hard to hear him over the wails coming from his “youth team” in the dressing room.
I gather the bawling by Arsenal’s most dedicated fans led to a rush on ear plugs at chemists across Hertfordshire. Or was that just in the Boots near Richard Osley’s house? My esteemed rival wrote last week that victory at the Hawthorns would put Arsenal second in the table.
Unfortunately, for Mystic Meg, it is the mighty Spurs who hold that lofty position.
And we’ll still be higher than you come this Saturday night – even if Thierry flukes a goal while falling over his own feet again.

DELUDED dunderhead of the week: Martin Jol. The Spurs big head coach reckons that the history books show that Spurs are better than Arsenal. Say what?
Jol came up with the quote on Saturday: “Arsenal have been better than us BUT in football history I don’t think that is the case.”
When I should have been trying to fathom how non-league Morecambe could possibly beat mighty-mighty Grimsby Town as they did on Tuesday night or even celebrating Arsenal’s impressive 100 per cent record in the European Champions League, I spent hours this week trying to work out what Jol meant.

It’s a tricky equation: Spurs: No league championship since 1961. No major trophy since 1991. No win at Highbury since 1993. No north London derby win in six years. No Champions League experience at all. Relegated in 1977.
Arsenal: The only team to go through a whole season unbeaten. Three doubles. Thirteen league championships (11 more than Tottenham). Undefeated by Spurs in six years. Never relegated. If you figure it out feel free to write in.
Talking of history men, Spurs fans will never see a player as good as Thierry Henry in their stupid skin-tight white shirts.
Now Arsenal’s greatest ever goalscorer, his amazing strike against Sparta Prague on Tuesday night once again highlighted the gulf in class between the Gunners, now realistic Champions League contenders, and Tottenham.
I’ve forgotten West Brom already.

Give power to the people

POST-war, early 1950s Britain was still experiencing food rationing and was a disillusioning place for English gourmands. The war had destroyed the restaurant trade and, with few exceptions, post-war eateries made the worst of a bad situation.
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