by Richard Jolly @https://twitter.com/@RichJolly Published 8 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? The anniversary went unobserved. On January 22, it was two years since Granit Xhaka’s last Arsenal sending off, which had been his ninth red card in three years for clubs and country. Rewind to January 2017 and Arsene Wenger promptly proceeded to make a bad situation worse. Xhaka was deemed his defensive midfielder. The Arsenal manager contrived to compound the impression he had misinterpreted a £35 million footballer. “He’s not naturally a great tackler,” said the Frenchman. “I would encourage him not to tackle.” That advice may have gone unheeded: Xhaka has got...
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