Roger Alton Roger Alton

Spectator Sport: Glove story

issue 25 February 2012

My foul-mouthed friend Claudine had it about right after seeing Michael ‘full-­frontal’ Fassbender’s latest sex-and-angst gloomathon, Shame. ‘I didn’t know where to look,’ she said, ‘when Carey Mulligan started singing.’ And anybody who’s spent any time caring about Arsenal these past few years won’t have known where to look as the team was pulled apart by an ageing Milan side, before collapsing to Sunderland in the FA Cup.

If you want a long and happy life with the full complement of legs, it’s always best to keep on the right side of Roy Keane. But the Cork man was on to something when he complained about the number of Arsenal players wearing gloves: ‘No professional footballer worth his salt should enter the field of play in gloves. They should have been worrying about playing for their manager, not worrying about getting cold hands.

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