The fact that fathers of these kids were threatened with arrest and being charged with hate crimes when they tried to stop their daughters being drugged and gang-raped should on its own constitute a national scandal. There is a whole layer of police, social services and local government who deserve jail for a degree of wilful negligence that in effect was tantamount to connivance.
"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."