"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Are you still shocked by this sort of hysterical nonsense? It's been going on since the vote. The only extraordinary thing is that it's got worse rather than better in the intervening 18 months.
What I do find extraordinary, however, is that it often goes unchallenged by the (clearly sympathetic) reporters and broadcasters.