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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Scott Murray

DARK SECRETS: Won t somebody please think of the arsenal | Rare Historical Photos

All 11 Arsenal players celebrate their winner against Bournemouth.
North London art. Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images

GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS

Poor old Arsenal. There they were on Saturday afternoon, with their dramatic, last-minute, momentum-maintaining, potential-league-winning, stadium-into-hyperspace-dispatching goal that registered 9.3 on the Michaelthomasometer, expecting to be the talk of the town for the whole week and maybe the entire month … only for Bruno Fernandes to stage his spectacular dirty protest 24 hours later, refusing point blank to tackle, chase back, tidy his room, all that. Oh Bruno, Luke, Lisandro et al! Did Reiss Nelson calmly slot a spectacular, 96th-minute, possible-season-defining, rising, screaming, net-ripping, opposition-gut-punching, stop-the-world, top-class half-volley for nothing?

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