Emmanuel Eboue has revealed he goes in disguise to watch his beloved Arsenal in local pub as he can no longer afford his Sky subscription.

The ex-Gunner is skint after a bitter divorce battle with wife Aurelie stripped him of all of his assets.

He recalls the time last March that he was so desperate to watch his former club in action against Everton that he disguised himself and headed to his local pub in Enfield.

“I covered my face and I went there.” he said. “I was surrounded by Arsenal fans but they didn’t know it was me.

“I sat, I took a beer and I watched the game. But I kept my hood over my head and I hardly raised it because I knew that the Arsenal fans would recognise me.

“I would have felt embarrassed. I had never been in a pub to watch a game. It used to be in my house. Or maybe in a friend’s house.

“It was the life I had before compared to now. Normally the fans see me on the pitch. If I’d already said that I’d retired then yes, okay. I wouldn’t mind if they saw me in the pub.

“But some fans still think Eboue is still playing. Somewhere. So if they see me they maybe would be shocked.”

These says Eboue trains alone in a park near the Enfield home he is set to be forced out of.

“One day I was training in the park at night.” he said. “I saw one boy training alone. I put my cones down and I was training.

“He saw that my training was hard and he came and talked to me. But he didn’t recognise me. He asked: “Excuse me. How do you know all this?”

“I didn’t tell him that I used to be a professional player. I could not.”

Yet, remarkably, the ex-Ivory Coast star revealed he is so embarrassed at his plight that he actually avoids the area of north London around the Emirates in case he is spotted by supporters.

“I am not the kind of person that likes to hide.” he said. “But now I have to hide because my situation is very, very difficult.

“People know me. I played for Arsenal for many, many years. Before I was high on the third floor. Now I am on the ground floor. I can see that I am going down.

“People have in their heads an image of Emmanuel Eboue.” he said. “The name. I know that people respected me.

“So when they see me on the bus I have to lie to them to say: ‘No, no, no, it is not me.’ Yes, I have to lie.

“They said: ‘You look like Eboue’. But I feel ashamed. I feel embarrassed.”

Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi fired Barcelona past Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu in a fiery Clasico, sending the Catalans 14 points clear of their arch rivals at the top of the table.

Madrid had the better of the first half, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring, but from an offside position, while Barcelona should have had a penalty for Dani Carvajal’s foul on Gerard Pique.

A lightning Barcelona break in the 54th minute saw them break the deadlock, with Sergio Busquets, Ivan Rakitic and finally Sergi Roberto combining to set up Suarez.

Then Madrid were reduced to 10 men when Carvajal was sent off for a handball to prevent a certain goal, with Messi slamming home the penalty.

The Argentinian dribbled down the right in stoppage time and pulled back for Aleix Vidal to slide home a third to all but end Real’s title hopes and keep unbeaten Barcelona flying at the top of the table.

Here are the five key talking points…

1. Roles reversed

Barcelona starting the game 11 points clear of Real Madrid put both teams in an unusual state of mind for the game.

Madrid needed to come out guns blazing, desperate for an early goal, while Barcelona had to take on the style their opponents often employ, the counter-attack.

While in Clasicos past we’ve seen Barcelona dominate the ball and Madrid strike to try and hit them on the break, here the roles were reversed.

Madrid were on top, closing down Barcelona at every opportunity, pressing high, whereas the Catalans were content to be penned in, waiting for the right moment to surge forward.

That came in the second half and Barcelona had a lot of energy in the tank which they used to take Madrid to shreds and secure a huge victory.

Eddie Hearn reckons a clash between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is “un-makeable”.

Former heavyweight champion Fury has been cleared to return by the British Boxing Board of Control after accepting a two-year backdated doping ban.

And on Wednesday he took to Twitter to write: ‘@anthonyfjoshua will except [sic] 40% of our fight & will walk first & be announced first, I’m the biggest fight out there for these guys by double. U heard it here first. @EddieHearn’.

But Hearn, who promotes IFB, IBO and WBA champ Joshua, said: “He has text me that before, he does mean that.

“I’ve been talking to Fury [about promoting him] — the only way he is going to get the Joshua fight is with us.

“So I’ve been talking to Fury about a plan to lead to the Joshua fight.

“But I said to him, ‘We can’t talk about the Joshua fight now, you can’t expect to have a conversation, you haven’t even boxed for two years. You might come back and stink the place out and have small value in the fight’.

“He came back and said to me: ‘I’ll make it really easy for you. Straight and simple. I’ll give you a deal you’ll accept right away. I want 60-40, all the champion’s benefits — I want to walk second, it’s my name on the poster, I get the choice of changing rooms’.

“I went back and was like ‘Ah, yeah’, and he said, ‘No, he’s only where he is because of me…’

“Fury doesn’t want the AJ fight yet, he knows deep down he will get mauled by Anthony Joshua if they fight now.

“By the way, I rate Fury — he’s tough to beat, awkward, he’s not exciting but he’s a messer and he’s skilful.

“But you can’t compete, after coming back after that period, with AJ.

“I’ve said I’d give him a couple of fights and then the AJ fight, but he will probably sign with Frank Warren and it makes it unlikely, doesn’t it?

“We’re with one broadcaster, he’s with another, and I don’t think we could get everybody on board together.

“More worrying than that, we are so far apart that this fight is un-makeable.

“It’s not even as if we’re within five per cent, 10, 15, 20 per cent maybe.

“Fury is a voluntary challenger for all these titles but also has a lot of value in the fight, let’s make that clear.

“It’s not like we see him as 20 per cent or something like that.

“But at the moment, we shouldn’t even be considering this fight until we see if he can do something rather than just talk about it.”

Romelu Lukaku is unhappy with Zlatan Ibrahimovic after clashing with the Swede over his position at Manchester United, according to reports.

Ibrahimovic made his return from a cruciate ligament injury last month and provided an interesting talking point when he made his way on to the pitch against Newcastle United as he instructed Lukaku to move out to a wider position.

In United’s next game against Basel, the Belgium international walked towards the touchline once again as Ibrahimovic came on as a second-half substitute before being told to stay in his position by Ander Herrera.

According to the Daily Mirror, Lukaku fells ‘undermined’ by Ibrahimovic and is unhappy that Jose Mourinho and United’s coaching team has not spoken to the 36-year-old about the incident.

Lukaku has struggled for goals in recent weeks but has still scored 14 in 26 appearances for United so far this season. But the Belgian’s has not celebrated his last two goals and the Mirror claim that his relationship with Ibrahimovic is one of the key factors behind it. Lukaku, who also took Ibrahimovic’s No.9 shirt when he arrived at United in the summer, is also unhappy with Paul Pogba and Mino Raiola as the Mirror claims that both men are ‘gravitating’ towards the Swedish striker.