The billionaire owner of Arsenal football club

is at the centre of a huge row which, remarkably, has nothing to do with Arsene Wenger. Stan Kroenke has launched a television channel dedicated to bloodsports featuring at least one whey-faced inadequate describing the pleasure of shooting a lion. It makes me nostalgic for the days when Arsenal’s only association with the animal kingdom was playing Tony ‘Donkey’ Adams at centre back.