Arsenal League Cup kids apparently don’t impress the Chavs current rent-a-mouth, the not so butch Ray Wilkins, who said that Le Boss ‘undermines the value of the competition’ by using the Carling Cup to give youngsters a chance of first team football. He added that Chelsea have won the competition twice in four years, while Arsenal haven’t won it once in this time and therefore, in his words, that ‘justifies our policy’.

I think what Wilkins was really trying to say is that the Chavs do not have a youth policy, so clearly don’t have to give any of them first team experience. And that they are also forced to give eleven of their overpaid, overpriced international reserves a game of footie every now and again. Or they’d be moaning about the lack of games played as they cried all the way to their respective international banks.

As it happens you may just have noticed that the Chelsea played a whole load of very pricey reserves on Wednesday night and as a result lost on penalties at home to the mighty Burnley. Clearly a policy that is really well justified then, eh Butch?

Reserve teams in the Carling Cup just don’t cut it. Ask Liverpool. Far better to play a whole load of players who care, like the Arsenal Youth squad for example. I just hope whomever we get drawn against, be it the Scum, Manure or Burnley, Le Boss keeps his bottle and gives youth yet another chance in the next round.