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09th Dec 2015

Piers Morgan is suddenly Arsene Wenger’s biggest fan as Arsenal progress in Champions League

Tony Cuddihy

Suddenly, those #WengerOut tweets seem like a very, very long time ago.

As fickle football fans go, Piers Morgan is at the very top of the pile.

While there’s no doubting his allegiance to Arsenal – he doesn’t go where the trophies are, clearly – he is very quick to dismiss Arsene Wenger’s managerial credentials as soon as things go even slightly awry.

Well, Olivier Giroud, another regular victim of Morgan’s poisoned tweeting thumb, scored a hat-trick tonight and sent Arsenal through to the knockout stages of the Champions League with a 3-0 win against Olympiakos in Greece.

Morgan, for once, was overjoyed (but couldn’t resist a dig at Manchester United, the cretin).