Here Highbury saw the other side of the coin - a player

Here Highbury saw the other side of the coin - a player showing a clear disregard for one of the game's last remaining areas of etiquette, with the indirect result coming in the form of Blackburn's all- important injury-time equaliser.Arsenal had been leading 1-0 for more than an hour when, almost on 90 minutes, their young midfielder Stephen Hughes went down injured and Patrick Vieira kicked the ball out so his team-mate could be treated. What follows is usually sacrosanct - the opposing team throws the ball back to the one that was originally in possession and lets them get on with it This time the unwritten rule was broken. The throw went to Nigel Winterburn, the Arsenal left-back, who immediately found himself under pressure from Sutton. The ball went for a corner, and from it Garry Flitcroft drove in a powerful cross-shot.The Arsenal players were furious with Sutton, and in the eight minutes of injury time that the referee somehow found reason for there were any number of unpleasant spats all over the field. Not that relations between the teams had exactly been cordial up till then, and if there had been sendings-off in addition to the nine bookings nobody could have complained.Tony Parkes, the Blackburn caretaker manager, managed both to defend Sutton and not to defend him "It wasn't within the spirit of the game," he said. "But he's a silly lad sometimes, and maybe he just forgot about the injury. I'm just thankful we got a point."Arsene Wenger's attitude was more one of resignation than anger.

"England was where the idea of fair-play began," the Arsenal manager said "The rest of the world copied it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist any more." Perhaps he had forgotten about Fowler.Wenger also put the blame on his own players, for failing to mark Flitcroft properly from Kevin Gallacher's corner, "and, whatever the circumstances, we have a responsibility not to make mistakes".Wronged though Arsenal will feel, this incident did not tell the whole story of the match. A goal up after 19 minutes, they reverted to type in the second half by getting numbers behind the ball, and a Blackburn side that had looked anonymous began to create problems. Indeed, Gallacher missed glaringly five minutes before the end when he miskicked from right in front of goal and Lee Dixon cleared up the danger.Manchester United's win at Liverpool all but removed Arsenal's chance of winning the Premiership, but the silver lining was that it opened up a real possibility that they could get into the Champions' League through finishing in runners-up spot. Everything was going according to plan when David Platt swept the ball home after Martin Keown had headed against a post, and both Winterburn and Ian Wright missed chances to put the game beyond Blackburn's reach. Now Arsenal are in a head-to-head with Liverpool - and aware, surely, that it is always a mistake to try to sit on a lead..

The pages of Don Black's passport are covered by stamps saying "US Immigration", "Los Angeles" and "New York". He fell in love with the States in 1967 when he went to California to receive an Oscar for the song Born Free, which he wrote for the film of the same name. After that he began jetting back and forth to the US where he was in demand to write for movies, including a trio of James Bond title songs - Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun. His first foray into the world of musicals came when he collaborated with John Barry on Billy. It was a West End success and went on to be a big hit in America, so Don uprooted his family and moved across the Atlantic for a year in 1976. During the Eighties Don began to work with Andrew Lloyd Webber on musicals like Song and Dance, Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard. He found himself increasingly in New York overseeing the productions when they transferred to Broadway.

Even when he didn't have to go on business, he was drawn there. He explains: "I love New York and look for any excuse to get there - I love seeing shows, and I've fallen in love with the Carlyle Hotel which is on 76th and Madison, where the shops are. It's sort of Bond Street with heart, and just heaven."Don's work has also taken him to Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and all over Europe.Other stamps reveal Don's love for Barbados. "In the last three or four years I've gone for New Year with my wife Shirley," he says "We stay at Treasure Beach, which is a quiet little haven. You do see showbiz people - last year Alan Rickman was there and the ubiquitous Michael Winner is always there - but that's not the attraction. The attraction is the water, the restaurants and atmosphere." Don's one gripe is that he has to come home via Gatwick airport He says, "Gatwick is a soulless, uninviting place.

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