Does this mean the club is now run by AFTV? I was no more up for MA8 than most (I

[Sir C]

So all this interest in MA8 wasn't genuine?

NB - lunatics shouting on the internet and their banners led to lots of empty seats that eventually cost us AW.

It's the decade of shouting on the internet. You think the board would have denied AW his final year were it not for the loonies on the web?

I have no doubt that their interest in Arteta was genuine, but that's what an interview process is about, isn't it? You interview candidates in whom you're interested, then make your choice from amongst them. I must say, it all looks rather normal to me.

You don't think that perhaps some journalists got a bit carried away with the Arteta story and jumped the gun?