Kane’s able protest
MACCABI Sunday league footballer Kane Hopps has been the talk of soccer pundits this week but not because of his on-field exploits with Redbridge Jewish Care. The exasperated Arsenal supporter was shown on TV at the weekend, as his club went down to a 3-1 defeat at Chelsea, holding a banner in the stands with a message for Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger: “Enough is enough, time to go”. When the former Manchester United player Gary Neville branded Mr Hopps an “idiot” on Sky, other football mavens rallied to the fan’s defence. Neville had “badly misread the mood of huge sections of the Arsenal support,” said the chief football writer of The Times Henry Winter, “and also, arrogantly, dismissed the right to protest. It is Hopps’s club, not Neville’s.”