By Walter Broeckx As expected Mkhitaryan starting on the bench. Wilshere was sick so he couldn’t make the trip to Wales today. Arsenal team : Cech, Bellerin, Koscielny, Mustafi, Monreal, Elneny, Xhaka, Ramsey, Iwobi, Lacazette, Özil. On the beach: Ospina, Chambers, Kolasinac, Maitland-Niles, Mkhitaryan, Nketiah, Giroud. A lot of water on the pitch it seems …
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By Bulldog Drummond The only news of late is that Jack Wilshere missed training this morning, although there is a suggestion he might still play. And it is said that Rob Holding is going on loan to Burnley so he won’t be in the squad but we are told Giroud is. Meanwhile the issue we’ve …
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by Bulldog Drummond So now we have established after endless errors on my part that Swansea City won the Football League trophy and not the FA Trophy. They are altogether different things. Glad we got that sorted. But I often wonder why there are people who want to tell me I’m wrong but don’t give …
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By Bulldog Drummond As pointed out before I made a mistake in analysing Swansea’s trophy cabinet, giving them two League Cup wins by reading the wrong column on Wiki. What they won twice was the FA Trophy in 2006 and 1994. They have of course only won the League Cup once and that was in …
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