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Nenad Milijas's red card outraged Mick McCarthy © Getty Images

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Hitting a bum note
You might expect Mick McCarthy to have been in jovial mode after his ten-man Wolves team held on to grab a draw away from home against Arsenal on Tuesday - but that just means you don't know Mick McCarthy very well. When asked whether Nenad Milijas deserved his red card after a poor challenge on Mikel Arteta, McCarthy memorably noted: "Not while I have a hole in my bum."

Which is, er, one way of putting it, we guess.

Far from whiter than White
Journalists are supposed to be impartial, or so the teaching on the matter goes. So I wonder what lecturers everywhere would have made of Jim White's description of protesting Blackburn Rovers fans as "idiots" during a curiously-timed Sky Sports News interview with Rovers manager Steve Kean?

Come to think of it, what would those 'idiot' fans have made of such comments?

Golden Graham
Questions were raised about former Watford striker Danny Graham's ability to adapt to the Premier League when he moved to Wales in the summer, but he continued to prove his ability in England's top flight on Tuesday - and against the side that almost nipped in and signed him.

QPR came close to adding Graham in the summer, and the forward made them rue that mistake as he scored the opener in a 1-1 draw with a smart turn and precise shot. He has now scored six goals in 11 games for Brendan Rodgers' men.

"I'm just getting used to the style of play," Graham noted afterwards. "I've come from Watford who play a different style."

Hardly a labour of love
They say romance is dead, and then QPR midfielder Joey Barton tweets this after QPR's draw: "Game done, now to the hospital. Missus is going into labour. Great timing luv........#nosleeptonight."

Ruddy brilliant
Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy made a number of very smart saves - and collected a number of testing crosses - against Tottenham, before finally getting beaten by Gareth Bale for a goal he could perhaps have done better for. Still, it gave us enough of an excuse to shoehorn a particularly poor subhead pun into this article - and isn't that the main thing?

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