Many people will not remember that Eduardo badly broke his leg playing against Birmingham the last time they were in the Premier League. Martin Taylor was the player responsible and that was the name being chanted by a number of Birmingham fans as they watched their side lose miserably.

Wenger said: “They will not be remembered for the quality of their taste with that kind of remark. Eduardo was here. I don’t know how he felt about the chants. I just put that in the ranks of stupidity.”

“That’s fantastic. It shows first that everybody goes forward and when everybody scores, the team has a good collective base. On a longer term, some will score more than others, but to know that everybody can score is fantastic.”

“After the last international break we lost at Manchester City. It’s difficult away from home.”

Birmingham boss, Alex McLeish, added: “They’re a beautiful footballing team. I threw the gauntlet down to the strikers, the McFaddens of this world. Cameron’s had experience in the Premier League and he’s now got to show that he’s a Premier League striker.”

It is not clear whether the Football Association will bother taking a look into the incident in order to try and work out who started the chants in the first place. The Birmingham boss certainly does not condone them and the fact is that the chants were made by a small few. There were probably fans sitting in the same section that told whoever was signing that they were out of order in the first place.

Sometimes the atmosphere and passion at a football match can go straight to your head and you start chanting or saying things that you would not have done when given the benefit of turning back the clock. This is probably one of those situations. There was no reason for the chants as Eduardo had not done a single thing to warrant the negativity from Birmingham fans.

Wenger will be happy that his side won the match and muted the chants of the idiotic fans. It is certainly not something that should be remembered and if Eduardo scores against them this season, we’d all forgive him for doing an Adebayor.