There was a bit of a to-do last week between Arsene Wenger and French coach Didier Deschamps over Abou Diaby, Wenger insisting that the player should not have been picked for recent internationals because of fitness concerns.

Deschamps replied forcefully enough – “I want to remind him that I am the only one to decide who will be picked and how long those who are picked will play, there is only one to decide and it’s me” – but Montpellier owner Louis Nicollin, as is his habit, was especially candid on the affair, according to yesterday’s Observer: “Wenger should mind his own arse and busy himself with running that English club of his. He talks so much rubbish, Mister ‘I’m always right’, what a pain. He should stop pissing us off in France.”

That’s Arsene told.