When it comes to his broadcasting career you have to say that former England and Arsenal striker Ian Wright is unique.

While faced with the simplicity of hitting the back of the net as a player for Crystal Palace, the Gunners, West Ham and fleetingly Celtic and Burnley, Wright’s aim was pretty much true.

However, when it has come to television and radio, his ability to find the target has proved a little erratic at times.

On Sunday he made his debut on Radio 5 live’s new Sunday 606 show, alongside presenter Kelly Cates, and it didn’t take him too long to start re-Wrighting the rule book.

Within two minutes he was already telling Arsenal fans that he didn’t want them ringing in moaning – perhaps a slightly counter- productive approach when in charge of a football phone-in programme.

And given the nature of 606, banning whining Gooners is a dangerous ploy as I am sure they make up the majority of punters who ring in and it creates the danger of having mainly moaning Liverpool fans, very few of whom have Scouse accents, and Newcastle supporters, who to be fair don’t groan so much as do ‘dramatically exasperated’, taking up most of the time on air.

Cates tried her best to keep him on track, but Wright decided on ploughing a lone furrow up front, getting results his own way.

And Gooners, being what they are, ignored Wright’s pleas to keep their negativity to themselves.

However, those who got through reckoned without their former goal-getting hero’s subtle abilities to convince them of the error of their ways.

What followed was a football phone-in version of Muppet Show characters Statler and Waldorf in full flow.

Statler and Waldorf would start off saying the show was terrible but eventually praise it to the heavens.

Wright guided those Gooners who came on saying manager Arsene Wenger must go by first chiding them for ‘disrespecting THE Wenger’.

He then guided them to a point where they agreed the Frenchman was at fault for nothing at the club and that some unseen force of evil was at work at the Emirates.

If you missed it tune in next week.

As Mr Spock from Star Trek would surely say: “It’s a football phone-in Jim, but not as we know it!”