Morning all. There was a time when the Arsenal midfield what a thing of beauty. Powerfully destructive in it’s defending of the oppositions attempts to threaten, dynamic in turnovers, brutally efficient, with a Gallo-Romance twist or a South American Samba. The names trip off of the tongue; Petit, Vieira, Edu, Gilberto Silva, Parlourinho. They drove us to two Domestic Doubles, three League Championships, the unbeaten season – and then it was gone! To replace those previous champions, in came Cesc, Hleb, Song, Denilson, Flamini etc. The more technical, easy on the eye, less resolute, a bit flaky Barca lite period arrived on the scene and we gradually lost our grip, culminating in...
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