Whatever you think about Wayne Shaw's piegate punishment, we doubt you came up with a comparison as off-piste as this one from Craig Burley.
The Sutton United player-coach's resignation has split people into two camps, but it seems to have created a third occupied by Burley and no one else.
Perhaps it was a valid point about scapegoating in the football world, or perhaps that's just what the former Scotland midfielder thought when he started typing.
After all, when the sentence actually came out, it was anything but the lightbulb moment he probably envisaged.
https://twitter.com/CBurleyESPN/status/834072011622252544
Burley is right that Wenger kept his job and Shaw did not, and he's probably right that the respective 'offences' are not comparable - just not in the way he thinks.
In fact, there is an argument that the 'Wenger Out' sign at the anti-Trump march in London was a more cogent expression of the concerns around the Arsenal manager, and a similar sentiment was apparent in the responses to Burley's analogy.
https://twitter.com/ayefsee/status/834072119373860864
https://twitter.com/CookPassTim/status/834080555725643778
https://twitter.com/SibsMUFC/status/834081356548276225
https://twitter.com/nicolaskues_/status/834089982314811392
https://twitter.com/SianyMacalarny/status/834080499555516416
https://twitter.com/HFooty/status/834079684484878337
https://twitter.com/Steve_Clark_AFC/status/834084640633847810
https://twitter.com/Boblex/status/834082226035949568
The only thing that Wenger's and Shaw's performances have in common, if we're being honest, is that both are things which have happened and which involve people doing things.
Anything beyond that is a bit of a reach, though perhaps that's what Burley was going for all along.
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