One thing that has been pointed out a few times is that when Bingo was at the dippers, the games were worth the ticket price. Both of us going toe-to-toe like boxers, a genuine slug-fest with each trying their level best to floor the other. I detest the dippers, always have and always will, but Bingo made them give it a go. He made them get stuck in and to fight until the ref blew for full-time. The players would traipse wearily off the muddied battleground, bruised and bloodied, regardless of the result and the ramifications for the league positions, grudgingly admiring one another for putting up a fight.
But what do the paying public get when Arteta's snidy little cowards mince onto the pitch? The worst 'football' ever witnessed in the Premiership years, that's what.
If they lift the trophy at the end of the season, I wonder just how many fans of the sport will be queuing up to slap them heartily on the back and congratulate them on a victory well deserved?
Not many.