Arsenal chief Edu’s wife gives fan middle finger after suffering abuse during Chelsea loss as Emirates gets heated
THE wife of Arsenal technical director Edu gave one of the club’s fans the middle finger during their defeat to Chelsea at the Emirates on Sunday.
The Gunners were outclassed by their London rivals as a capacity crowd watched Mikel Arteta’s side limp to a 2-0 loss.
And tempers flared up in the stadium as the game wore on, with one supporter opting to confront Edu by getting out of his seat and berating him from the steps, a confrontation that was later posted on Twitter.
And while Edu appeared to remain composed throughout the abuse, his wife Paula Gaspar could not contain her frustration.
After the fan had finished aggressively making his point, Gaspar put her middle finger up at him as frustrations boiled over.
Meanwhile, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta also felt the wrath of the angry Gunners support following the defeat.
Footage emerged of some men surrounding the Spaniard’s car and shouting ‘Arteta, do yourself a favour and leave the club’ before being hauled away by security.
However, in the immediate aftermath of the match Arteta remained complementary about the fans support despite the team being booed at half-time and full-time.
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He said: “I must thank the fans, even when things were looking difficult they tried to give the players a boost.
“I see a lot of positives with the crowd and the team today.
“At the end I didn’t see any bad reaction with any of the players. But that is my opinion.
“Feeling sorry for yourself does not help.
“You have to face the challenge, face the criticism – because it will come.”
Arsenal have lost their first two Premier League games of the season without scoring a goal, making it the worst start in their 118-year history.
They currently sit in the relegation zone and face the daunting task of travelling to champions Manchester City in their next league match on Saturday.
And Gunners legend Ian Wright was left incredibly concerned with what he witness at the Emirates on the weekend.
He said: “When you looked at the way that Chelsea played us today and the way Lukaku played, either they are not prepared, they are not listening, or they can’t perform what he wants them to do.
“What I saw today, apart from Lokonga, I thought he was very good today, [Nicolas] Pepe did a bit in places, I thought we looked really bereft of anything that we were doing.
“I don’t know what the tactics were. Because when you look how easily they were able to breach. For me it was quite frightening.”
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