So now the manager and the fans were happy, their theories of global conspiracy confirmed once more.

Let’s not leave out the players from this mass hysteria. Adebayor’s post-match comments were reported like this in the London Evening Standard: “At least one of the players from Liverpool deserved a red card. A player like Carragher just always makes a foul, a player like Lucas makes a lot of fouls. I have maybe made two fouls and got two yellow cards, which is not fair.” Yes, that’s right, I didn’t do it, big boys did. Even that well-known midfield brute Xabi Alonso came in for Adebayor’s attention, his perfectly-executed block tackle on Fabregas apparently “a little bit dangerous”. Crossing the road is a ‘little bit dangerous’ but that doesn’t make it illegal or inadvisable, Emmanuel.

His claim, backed up by the imbeciles on Match of the Day, was that his second offence was merely ‘shielding the ball’. Well, for information mate, you can only shield the ball once you already have it; it’s not ‘shielding’ when you stamp your foot over the ball onto an opponent’s shin.

As Bobby Robson once pointed out after his Newcastle side had won at Highbury, a result greeted by similar claims of injustice from Wenger, “they need to learn how to lose gracefully round here”. Perhaps they could start with a draw or two, and see how that feels.