Well the ‘hippy crack’ story didn’t stop Arsenal stretching their unbeaten run to 21 games in all competitions with a 1-0 win over Huddersfield. Unai Emery was probably not all that amused to see his players highlighted for inhaling nitrous oxide – he refused to discuss what he’d said to them – but then again it was four months ago and seems unlikely to have had a detrimental effect on performances. So the coverage in The Sun that was then picked up by other papers was a real mountain out of a molehill.
Football365 had the same view, and set to work in their Mediawatch feature, making fun of The Sun and Mail’s sensationalist reporting of a relatively harmless incident where no laws were broken and no one got hurt – hell, at the time no one was even off...
