BRENT A GOB: This week, Harry Brent is raging about how Arsenal's corner obsession has WWE-ified the Premier League, and at John Terry for moaning about not being given a better job at Chelsea
13:59, 03 Mar 2026
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Our man Harry Brent is fuming in his latest column
The state of corner kicks in the Premier League has become an absolute Tottenham … sorry, I mean a complete and utter joke.
If I wanted to watch grown men in tight outfits grappling and sweating all over each other, I'd tune into WrestleMania or head down to a questionable basement club in Soho. This isn't football we're watching anymore, it's a high-stakes cuddle club.
Just look at Arsenal's clash with Chelsea at the Emirates on Sunday. William Saliba was bear-hugging Joao Pedro like he was trying to stop him falling off a cliff, while Declan Rice had Jorrel Hato in a sleeper hold that Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper would've been proud of.
Declan Rice grapples Jorrel Hato in the box
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Arsenal's WWE antics are a stain on the Premier League - though they're not the only ones who do it
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Look, I've made peace with the fact that Arsenal's entire title charge is now just one big, neurotic corner fetish.
But asking me to stomach the thrill they obviously get from stuffing the six-yard box with beefy men, and this man-on-man WWE garbage, is like Eni Aluko's sense of entitlement – it's too much.
What makes it infinitely worse is the refereeing. On Saturday, Matheus Cunha gets a polite tap on the shoulder and the ref awards a red card and a penalty.
An actual photo of a corner during the Arsenal and Chelsea match
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An actual photo of a corner during the Arsenal and Chelsea match(Image: WWE via Getty Images)
Fast forward 24 hours, and they're watching full-blown rugby scrums in the penalty area and doing exactly what Trent Alexander-Arnold does when there's a player to mark – turning a blind eye.
I know moaning about officials and VAR is about as dull and predictable as a bad Gary Lineker pun, but this baffling lack of consistency is more perverse than Prince Andrew's alleged flight logs.
Corner FC were at it again
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Corner FC were at it again
Corners during Arsenal's win over Chelsea were a man-handling monstrosity
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Corners during Arsenal's win over Chelsea were a man-handling monstrosity
Jog on, John
John Terry is the Bridget Jones of football – constantly crying into his diary about how no one will pick him.
The Chelsea legend might have been a world class defender, but a world class managerial candidate he ain't – a reality that seems to confuse him more than the concept of not getting a man sent off confuses Chelsea.
Last week, JT was yapping yet again about how "frustrating" it is to be constantly overlooked for the top jobs (and no, not the sort of "top jobs" he used to get from Wayne Bridge's missus, actual footballing ones).
John Terry on the Double Tops podcast
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John Terry keeps moaning about how he's not being given a chance in management
Apparently he wanted the Chelsea caretaker gig after Enzo Maresca got the boot and a spot on Liam Rosenior's staff – a level of ludicrous ambition usually reserved for things like Titus Bramble shooting from 40 yards out, or Alan Shearer trying to say something insightful.
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The fella's got the entitlement of Brooklyn ‘my parents bought me a fleet of supercars and bankrolled my laughably sh*t cooking and photography careers, but my life is really hard’ Beckham. He thinks because he wore the captain's armband and barked at referees for 15 years, he's owed a seat at the table. Newsflash, John – all you're 'owed' is a reality check.
The best coaches stand out like Anthony Gordon at a beauty pageant – and given Terry's been loitering at Cobham for years without the Chelsea brass offering him so much as an interview, it should hammer home the fact: he's probably a bit crap.
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