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26th Jan 2018

Arsenal fans are furious with Piers Morgan’s choice of gift for Donald Trump

'How DARE you associate Arsenal, a football club that is proud of its diversity, with that intolerant, racist pig'

Simon Lloyd

‘Haven’t the Gunners been through enough?’

Seemingly, no. They haven’t.

Piers Morgan’s world exclusive interview with President Donald Trump will air in full on ITV this Sunday night.

Viewers of Good Morning Britain have already been shown a few snippets from the interview, which was recorded earlier this week in Davos, with Trump in Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum.

On Friday afternoon, Morgan shared a picture with his Twitter followers of him presenting the President with an Arsenal shirt. As the tweet explained, this was the moment Morgan invited Trump to replace Arsene Wenger as the club’s manager – ‘because he’d build a strong defensive wall, have an attacking philosophy and want to win big trophies at all costs.’

Morgan signs off by encouraging his followers to tune in for his ‘hilarious response’ on Sunday night.

As you can probably guess, not all Arsenal fans were too keen on the idea of Trump being associated with their football club.

Here’s just a sample of what some of them said in response:

https://twitter.com/pewpy/status/956943378226302978

https://twitter.com/Hector_Hellerin/status/956938976895660033

https://twitter.com/goonerkate/status/956943305631289347

Perhaps this, from the excellent arseblog , best summed up how most Arsenal fans felt about the image…