Day: 3 November 2013

Please note that since this article was originally published, Ryan has returned to Arsenal as under 13s coach at the Academy. Imagine being talented enough to play for Arsenal, starting for the first time in the first game of the run of 49 unbeaten games, and then never playing for the club again. That was …

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Blackburn 5 Arsenal 5. This was an extraordinary result, no matter which way one looks at it, and yet it is one that seems to have slipped through the reference books, and is not talked about, simply because nothing in the score is a record.  Not highest number of goals, most away goals or anything. …

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