Spurs fan arrested after banana skin thrown onto Arsenal pitch

Watching the match last night and two thirds of it was superb.

There was some ugliness with the crowd, and indeed between the players, but it was not clear to me what it was about, and no banana peel was shown. The 'smoke canisters' mentioned above could have been a couple of those phosphorus flares that you find in Japanese car footwells, but I remember wondering how people in the vicinity could breathe that stuff.

Anyway this London Derby was a riveting match between these two north London clubs. Just a pity that so many Spurs fans lost hope and started walking home well before the end of the match.

I don't understand the significance of the banana skin. Is it a bizarre kind of "seven shades of Kevin Bacon" kind of scenario? Bananas are food, some monkeys eat bananas, some monkeys live in Africa, some black people live in Africa, therefore it is a racial slur?

Personally, I wonder what happened to the banana. If the fan who threw the skin also ate the banana, doesn't that make the FAN also racist against themselves, since they actually ate what they consider to be "monkey food"? Not to mention, it's hard to throw an empty banana skin. You get more velocity and accuracy with an actual banana (or so I am told....)

I guess the guy didn't wanna waste his banana and thus threw just the skin.

Wow how footballs changed, a flippin banana skin must be a x icf member changed sides. ;o)

Don't get me started about the ICF Kobe.

Whilst I am a Gooner and I cannot stand Spurs fans, I have to say that this does not necessarily have to be a racist incident. Surely if he wanted that he would have thrown a full banana. How do we know he hadn't just eaten one and threw whatever was in his hand.

I remember being at a Watford game when John Barnes had numbers of full bananas thrown at him. Disgraceful.

The other point to make here is that Spurs have just as many black players in their team. One of their star favourites is half-Nigerian. For a Spurs fan to make this a racist incident would not make sense.

Racial undertones? Definitely. Proper racist? Only he knows.

Not condoning what he did but the bloke might have had the same reaction if kolasinac had scored who knows. (apparently he didn't bring/eat the banana just picked it up/threw it. Not an act of 'premedidated' racism but still poor form though).

gold, don't get me wrong as I've always been totally against racism at footie. But I think they need to concentrate on bigger issues rather than one single banana skin.

If this guy was racist he might have had an assorted bag of paella, sauerkraut, and a banana skin. But he didn't, so it was just pure coincidence that Aubameyang went to that corner of the ground after scoring that penalty.

I don't think this fan waits for 90 minutes at every game with a banana skin in his pocket.

Agreed. Why one banana skin has to be picked up by the media and then obliterate all the good stuff between two top teams of talented players of different ethnic backgrounds beats me. One idiot, hire someone to do the job, get his mugshots and throw him out.

As I say, I watched the whole match, and enjoyed most of it.