Published: 25 September, 2015

• EXCELLENT work by Steve Barnett in last week’s Score Blimey column.

He has picked up the baton from Richard Osley with great aplomb.

Steve’s confident announcement that Chelsea are finally beatable by the Holloway Goons in a competitive match and that Jose Mourinho is in any way comparable with Brendan Rodgers had me choking on my brioche. 

Chelsea, as their ever chirpy supporters chanted on Saturday, “are staying up”. They bullied the Gooners again, as they have done ever since Patrick Vieira left. 

Which brings me to the hilarious subject of Arsenal supporters boycotting Costa coffee and questioning whether they would want Diego in their side. 

Can I remind the forgetful old Gooners that Vieira was sent off with monthly regularity, occasionally even starting fights before the teams were out of the tunnel.

He even managed the sporting gesture of spitting at a player after being sent off. At no point did any Goon suggest he had gone too far and must be sold – I wonder why? 

Now, where is my skinny flat white. 

BRUCE MACRAE, NW3