An overdose of hysteria.

With the transfer window still open, it is actually quite surprising that the press have jumped unto a couple of incidents this week to go all out on. I suppose the likes of Huth to Stoke and the long running transfer of John Mensah to Sunderland don't really get the pulse of collective scribes going.

The West Ham-Milwall brouhaha was above average for fan trouble this is true, but to the level in the press? It's not a return to the bad old days. It's West Ham vs. Milwall, it was bound to happen. It would have been newsworthy if the game had passed without incident.

Some of the Cassandra types have even decided that the incidents will hamper England's world cup bid. At the end of the day, England's bid team will have to woo the people who vote for these things, the Executive Committee. The amount of political manouvering involved means that common sense will not necessarily prevail when picking the nations.

Besides, England's hosting the Olympics...much of which will take place on Tuesday's battleground. Total non-starter.

Meanwhile, yesterday's straightfoward tie against Celtic, turned out to not be so straightforward. Yes, Eduardo dived, and yes, it was wrong. But he is not the first person to dive. He is not even the first person to dive in a match on ITV. Those with long memories will remember Steven Gerrard's actions against Atletico last season. If ITV covered that, they need to take a long hard look at themselves as I guarantee there was no way the amount of investigative journalism going on. I guarantee that Rafa Benitez did not have the incident shown and asked point blank was it a dive. Or even Sir Alex. They wouldn't dare.

However, because Eduardo is foreign, its suddenly as if he's the first person to ever dive. Even Tony Hibbert dived last weekend. If he is banned, it would be deserved, as long as there is the same furore and punishment when it happens elsewhere.

This just shows that good start to the season or not, the press are just falling over themselves to stick the knife into Arsenal. But in this case, we're not alone, the media is particularly schizophrenic this summer.