Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has been pretty good recently when it comes to moaning but he was back to his best after last night's draw at Dynamo Kiev.

Wenger was furious at the lack of protection afforded to Theo Walcott.

"The referee should have sent off the left-back three times at least because he destroyed Walcott."

Wenger also moaned about the extra minutes. It seems that he and Sir Alex Ferguson have real problems with understanding the system.

"I wanted to understand how we had only three minutes of injury time, and then only played one minute. Every referee looks to have a different computer to calculate the injury time and still I do not know and really understand how it works. It looks like it is through the inspiration of the referee and he could not explain it. He just said it was enough."

In relation to the game, Wenger was reasonably pleased with a point although he felt they should have three.

On the back of a four game unbeaten run he now takes his side to the one place he hates to go. Bolton will not be going easy on them at the weekend and it is a real chance for Arsenal to show that they have what it takes.

The Football Association have announced that despite almost everyone in the game agreeing that Newcastle midfielder Danny Guthrie should receive further punishment, he will, in fact, escape with just the mandatory three match ban.

The wild tackle which he admitted was deliberate and borne out of frustration broke the leg of Hull City striker Craig Fagan.

However, the FA revealed it could only take further action if it levelled a fresh charge against the player.

A spokesman said: "Every sending-off carries an automatic sanction under the current regulations. The FA doesn't have the power to extend automatic suspensions. The only circumstances in which we could take any further action would be to issue an additional charge against a player. This occurs only in exceptional cases, such as Ben Thatcher's challenge on Pedro Mendes in 2006."

However, the FA spokesman also confirmed that an ongoing review of their disciplinary procedures could see a sliding scale introduced to increase punishments for serious offences.

Who's rules are the FA hiding behind here? I would guess that they are their own. If so, can't they just change them. They are the FA after all!

In this case, Hull manager Phil Brown said that an automatic three-match ban was "insufficient punishment". Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor added that Guthrie's actions were "not acceptable".

Guthrie has since apologised, insisting he is not a dirty player, but Fagan will be out for six weeks as a result of his deliberate actions.

Not for the first time over the past few seasons, Tottenham have let their expectant fans down with a very poor start to the season.

Sitting rock bottom of the Premier League with just one point from four games is a million miles away from where Tottenham fans and Ramos himself, would have expected them to be.

The question is whether Ramos should start to worry. The side looked disjointed and dispirited in their 2-1 defeat at home to Villa and not disimiliar to the side that Martin Jol lost his job for developing.

I don't expect Ramos to be shown the door just yet but defeat in either of Spurs next two games, both at White Hart Lane, against Wisla Krakow in the Uefa Cup on Thursday, and Wigan in the Premier League on Sunday, could lead to him hanging onto his job by the skin of his teeth.

Last season's Carling Cup win seems to be a long way away and the excitement and optimism that the triumph generated has already faded away.

The international break ended with some satisfaction for the under-fire British teams. England produced one of their best results and one of their best performances for many years in the 4-1 thrashing of Croatia.

Scotland got the 2-1 win in Iceland they so desperately needed after the disappointment of the 1-0 defeat in Macedonia.

Northern Ireland held the comparatively mighty Czech Republic to a 0-0 draw in Belfast.

Wales put in one of their best performances under John Toshack in Russia although they ended up on the wrong end of the 2-1 score line.

All in all it was a good day for the British teams who have all received their fair amount of criticism. The four managers will be pleased and relieved in equal measures as they sit back and wait for the next installment.

I first saw Theo Walcott as a fifteen year old lad playing for Southampton in an under eighteen game at Swindon. I had never heard of him before but became aware that the great Cyril Regis was in attendance in the capacity of being his agent.

I had been around youth football for a while but I had never encountered a fifteen year old with a high profile agent before. It was clear that the lad must be something special.

He played well in the game and his pace and trickery led one of the Swindon youngsters to get sent off for something of an agricultural tackle in attempting to stop him.

From there on in Walcott's career has been pretty much public knowledge. It looked as though he would go all the way until Sven Goran Eriksson's misguided decision to take him to the 2006 World Cup.

The whole experience and the fact that he wasn't used despite any other strikers being fit seemed to set him back a long way. Since then he has been carefully nurtured by Arsene Wenger at Arsenal and has gradually forced his way into the first team reckoning at the Emirates.

His hat-trick for England in Croatia was stunning. He still has a long and very bright future ahead of him, but I sincerely hope that the media allow him to progress at his own pace and don't build him up into a world beater on the strength of one performance.

Why has Wembley suddenly become a nightmare venue for England?

For years Wembley was a fortress. The team played in front of flag waving fans in a serious show of patriotism. With the possible exception of Euro 1996, England often let down the fans but still they supported them.

Now, with the humiliating failure to qualify for Euro 2008 some of the fans have turned on the players and started to demand more from their well paid, over-hyped representatives on the pitch.

Unused to this justifiable criticism the players have started talking about a total lack of confidence and the anxiety of the fans at Wembley getting to them. Even Fabio Capello has said that he would rather play away from Wembley. He says the pressure exerted by the fans at home is too much for the players to bear.

I wonder if the manager and players have considered the fact that the supporters pay an awful lot of money to be entertained and if they are short changed, they have a right to voice their displeasure.

This is not a chicken and the egg situation. The poor performances came first. The criticism came second.

The players need to look at themselves, not talk about fans draining their confidence.