Speculation has been growing this week as to the real reason Lady Ninja has departed from the Arsenal board of directors. Such terse statements emanating from the club and the asides from Peter Hill-Wood appear to indicate that the lady, described as vampish following one particular AGM, may want to sell her shares. Hill Wood of course is pretending that he has no idea. Some would say he doesn't have to pretend.

With 16% of the shares up for grabs this could of course mean that some undesirable individual would get a crack at taking over our club. On the other hand the whole thing could just be an innocent fact of everyday life whereby one particular individual, Lady N for example, suddenly finds themselves in dire need of £70,000,000. No greed involved whatsoever, just the flogging off of a few generations of family heritage to pull in some extra spending money at this very expensive time of year. A bit like Dein having the sudden urge to sell his soul to the devil for the sake of a few million quid. Love of the club has no bounds, unless of course you can trouser a few million for something that cost you not a lot.

Or just maybe she is going due to something far more sinister that we're not being told about. Maybe the Lady is not for turning and has no intention of selling her shares. In which case is it at all possible Lady Ninja has had her season ticket revoked along with her directorship? Is it just possible that she was involved in something even more unsavoury than the desire to flog off her husband's family heritage? We all know that until recently she knew nothing about the beautiful game but has by all accounts really got into the swing of it. Has she gone too far? Has she taken it all to heart and been writing abusive emails about the board on the Arsenal message boards and forums? Could she have been slagging off Wenger under an assumed name in the fanzines? Has she perhaps been attending matches in disguise and upsetting stewards, God bless 'em, in block 6 by standing for the entire game whilst singing. Or was she maybe one of those banned for gobbing on the Everton fans? Or far worse yet, was she guilty of booing Ebooooue?

I think we should be told.