Brentford manager’s Thomas Frank broke with the tradition of hilariously moaning about refereeing decisions after losing to Arsenal to say the Gunners were deserving winners.

Picture the scenes.

Arsenal have just beaten Burnley by one goal, despite dominating the game.

Burnley feel that one of their players was fouled in the build-up to an Arsenal goal (even though he wasn’t) but Arsenal have three clear and obvious penalties denied, along with a dodgy offside to rule out a goal.

What do you think Sean Dyche would be talking about after the game?

Do you think he would praise Arsenal? Or do you think he’d spend the whole time in front of the media harping on about that one imaginary foul?

Such are the ways of managers when they lose to Arsenal these days, that’s what I expected from the Brentford boss.

How refreshing it was to see that he didn’t go down that road.

“Arsenal were good, fair play for them,” Frank said.

“We defended great, but we were not good enough on the ball. Especially in the first half. It is quite reasonable that they won.

“I think the decisive factor was how well we got on the ball. How calm they were.

“These two consecutive passes, where we calmly work our way forward the course. We got better at it after the break with two dangerous situations, but in those situations we need to be better.”