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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Arsenal don’t just drop points, they perform theatrical acts of self-sabotage

Arsenal let it slip at a wet and windy Molineux.
Arsenal let it slip at a wet and windy Molineux. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

MOLINEUX MELTDOWN

Top of the league, Wembley trip booked, sweeping through Europe, and blessed with a cushty FA Cup draw – it’s fair to say the Arsenal garden is in full, radiant bloom. At least, it was until they travelled to a wet and windy Molineux to play a match the Premier League surreptitiously slipped into the schedule like a worm tablet hidden in a dog’s dinner. In Wolves, Mikel Arteta’s side were facing a team who are not only the worst in the top flight by some distance, but one who have only recently begun battling to avoid going down as the most awful of all time. Having taken a two-goal lead, the only logical question centred around how many more Arsenal would spank past their hapless hosts. Instead, logic gave way to the objective hilarity of a collective on and off-field meltdown as the Gunners managed to turn what should have been a stroll into an inexplicable 2-2 draw.

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