No doubt like many of you, I was not in the least surprised at the latest piece of craven cowardice to emanate from the FA last week when they gave Hull City manager Phil Brown a risible £2,500 fine for his comments and behaviour after the FA Cup game at Arsenal this season. They continue to be tremendously consistent in their inconsistency. They will happily stand by bookings for players celebrating by taking their shirt off, yet calling a referee a cheat, impugning a club’s honour and making up stories about a club captain add up to £2,500’s worth of wrongdoing. Thank heavens they’ve got that balance right.

That Brown the Liar had the nerve to have denied the charge of improper conduct makes the FA’s fawning weakness even worse. What message does it send out? “Don’t worry about pleading guilty even in the face of incontrovertible TV and media evidence, because we won’t bother to throw the book at you anyway”.

And now he has the brass neck to come out in the media and say, and I quote, “I was disappointed obviously to be found guilty because I thought it was a real high pressure situation.” So, “I was disappointed to have been sent down for that armed robbery, because it was a real high pressure situation.” Make sense? The Liar goes on: “It was straight after a game. I really do think that the precedent should be set that you guys [the media] shouldn't be allowed to shove a camera in Premier League managers' faces just after a game. I think there should be a cooling down period. I think there should be a time - thirty minutes or so - after a game of football when a manager can allow himself [to calm down]".

So, “I am not responsible for my actions. The TV is.” Stop and think about that for a second. Not only is the man not penitent. He doesn’t even understand what he has done wrong. And no one, not the TV, not the media and least of all the typically gutless, self-serving, stuffed shirts of the FA stands up and condemns him for it.

At worst, the man’s complete lack of empathy and understanding ought to warrant some form of counselling for sociopathic behaviour. But the FA decides that a £2,500 fine is the right punishment. Well, the precedent is surely now set for the next time Arsenal have someone up before the FA beak.

Meantime I can’t wait to hear 60,000 Gooners singing “Phil Brown is a liar” on December 19th. After all, it won’t be our fault. It’ll be a real high pressure situation…