Are Arsenal Unfairly Targetted?

Normally, I'd have a small blurb regarding last night's win in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.  And most of it would have been to single out Andrei Arshavin for both his tenacity and his quality.  That shouldn't be forgotten in all the other nonsense.  In his few appearances this season and with the shortest preseason possible, Arshavin has shown his quality by picking Arsenal up and being the kind of wild-card threat that we had been sorely lacking.  My mouth just waters at the idea of an Arsenal attack featuring Arshavin, Nasri, Walcott, Adebayor, Van Persie and Fabregas.

....and speaking of Fabregas....

I guess I gotta get into the whole "Spit" drama...even though I find it all appallingly dumb.

DEPENDING ON WHO YOU BELIEVE, either Cesc spit on Hull's assistant manager Brian Horton or he didn't.  DEPENDING ON WHEN YOU GET PHIL BROWN TO TELL THE TALE, it either happened at the touchline when Cesc was congratulating his teammates or in the tunnel as everyone was leaving the pitch.  

The ironic thing is that, so far, the only people to have seen Cesc spit at Horton are Horton and Brown -- and not one of Hull's or Arsenal's players or staff nor any of the officials who oversaw that game.  And there isn't even any footage from any of the Setanta cameras that could have filmed either the event or its aftermath.  

Horton has gone to the League Managers Association with his complaint and they have deferred to the FA.  Meanwhile Mike Riley has submitted his match report to the FA with nary a word regarding this "incident."

And the response has been to bring back memories of a "spitting" incident between Cesc and Michael Ballack when he played for Bayern Munich, to compare Cesc to a Barca ultra and to point out once again how Arsene refuses to see any wrongdoing from his players.

For me, it just brought back memories of the reactions to Eduardo's injury last year and how it felt as if the entire English media closed rank around Martin Taylor.  It seems that, where the subject of Arsenal or its players, its managers or its fans are involved, the benefit of the doubt is not available.  And I gotta wonder why is that?