Arsenal Fan Appears To Bite Steward On The Head During Draw With Crystal Palace | US | Translation

For Arsène Wenger's detractors, Arsenal's 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace this weekend epitomised everything wrong with the team. Despite having the lion's share of possession and chances, despite looking by far the better side, the Gunners managed to squander a series of presentable opportunities before blowing their narrow lead after a late counter-attack. The predictability of it – the relentless tedium of Arsenal's hollow self-parody – has driven the fans to despair.

Having fallen to fourth place in the aftermath of the draw, the team that topped the table as recently as mid-January are now fighting to hang on to their Champions League spot. Arsenal are 13 points behind league-leaders Leicester, with a mere five games left to play. Their title dreams are ash, blowing on the radioactive winds of a supermassive nuclear event.

Still, that doesn't mean the supporters should start behaving as if they're actually living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

In the middle of the Palace game, with Arsenal still leading, it appears that stewards had to remove several fans from the North Bank. Scuffles ensued and, with spectators filming the incident, one of the fans in question seemed to bite – or attempt to bite – a steward on the head.

None of our Arsenal stewards deserve to have heads bitten… Filth in the north bank earlier at 1-0 up… pic.twitter.com/oQoqa5cl1S
— #ClockEndToStand (@ClockEndToStand) April 17, 2016

Obviously, this is the sort of behaviour you associate with feral ghouls from Fallout 4 as opposed to football fans. This is what flesh-eating zombies do, not human beings. Unless you're one of the undead, desperately trying to sustain yourself on brainssss, head biting is socially unacceptable on every level. Even in MMA, the biting of heads is prohibited (unless it's MMA with zombies, that is).

Though the incident is meant to have taken place prior to Yannick Bolasie's equaliser, we're guessing it had something to do with #WengerOut rage. Sadly, it appears that yet another frustrating season has left some fans ready to cannibalise their fellow man.

Perhaps, when people are openly feasting on each other in the stands, rending each other limb from limb, the team will finally realise the importance of preserving a narrow lead against Crystal Palace. If that's what it takes for the players to learn their lesson, then it's a price that some fans are willing to pay.

Update: It has subsequently come to light that the fan in question may have been ejected for racist remarks, which is shitty and depressing, and definitely not funny.