In today’s football discourse, knee-jerk reactions are inevitable. Barely a day passes without seeing players and managers alike decried as “frauds” or lauded as “world-class” with little evidence to substantiate those claims other than one 90 minute slice of football. One club often guilty of this – there are many, and to list them all would take up half of this page – is Arsenal. The club spawned an entire genre of football criticism, fans ranting or raving outside a ground into a microphone, while rivals on Twitter lap up every last second – Spurs supporters, in particular. Yet something perhaps a little strange has happened at the Emirates in recent months and there...
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