The Labour leader - and
well-known Gunners supporter - is a fan of the veteran Arsenal boss, but he
might just have seen something in the protests against him that he liked
There's a General Election on Thursday. You might have heard
about it.
And while all
of the discussion and analysis of the policies and politics involved is available elsewhere
on this website (we're
just here to make jokes about football and check on who Jamie Carragher is
taking on on Twitter this week, sorry), the election does nonetheless feature a
pretty big football fan.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has never hidden
his love for Arsenal, and backed under-fire manager Arsene
Wenger to the hilt earlier this season when the Gunners boss was getting
criticism from all angles - including, most notably, directly above.
Because there
was a time when barely a Gunners game would go by without the sight of a plane
flying overhead displaying an anti-Wenger message, as angry fans hit out.
But the Arsenal boss - who also saw plane banners supporting him
- held on to his job, and even ended the season by winning the FA Cup, despite
finishing outside of the top four in the Premier League.
And it seems
as though Corbyn has seen something he likes, because according to Buzzfeed's
political editor Jim Waterson, plane banners are going to be a 'thing' on
election day.
Waterson's tweet claims that planes carrying "big
pro-Labour adverts over key marginals" are going to be visible on
Thursday, with Corbyn clearly hoping that they can keep Labour's policies fresh
in people's minds as they go to vote.
We seemed to be writing a "Wenger Out" story every day
here, so obviously the planes caught people's imagination.
Will the same
be true for Corbyn?
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