As if footballers don’t get already get enough money for kicking balls around a pitch it also seems they get even more for playing badly too.

Yes we know we sound harsh and we’ll get all the comments about how girls don’t understand football - blah blah blah, but this announcement from LG really got us going today.

Now don’t get us wrong we have nothing against LG, in fact we are big fans of its products. But we can’t help getting angry when we get news like this coming through:

“LG has helped put some shine back into the lives of the Arsenal footballers, after a tough fortnight for the club. On Friday the company presented every member of the first team squad and management with a personalised, engraved LG Shine handset.”

Oh please, the team are going to need a lot more than a phone to make them Shine (more like a double miracle).

You can’t give a bad team a phone and expect it to help and the quicker that is accepted the quicker they will be made to pull up their socks and get back on the pitch instead of being rewarded or “consoled”.

We are also pleased to see that our views about the Arsenal team being crying diving babies who are better off in the playground than on the pitch have also been proved right.

The announcement also informs us that “each player’s phone is engraved with their name, ensuring there will be no confusion in the changing room over whose Shine is whose.”

Uh hello- how old did you all say you were?