The Referee

As mentioned this week Graham Poll’s new book is being seralised in the Daily Mail.   Todays extract talks about the Battle of Highbury.

“When I pressed the bell for the teams to leave their dressing-rooms on February 1, 2005, neither team emerged; neither wanted to be first. Each wanted to leave the other standing about in the corridor. I pressed the bell a second time. Again nothing happened. Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson were keeping watch by their dressing-room doors, each waiting for the other to blink first in this stand-off. “