Lukasz Fabianski will be making his 81st consecutive Premier League start when he steps out at Villa Park on Monday Night Football. It is a run which stretches back to his penultimate season at Swansea and reflects the consistency and reliability that have come to define him as a goalkeeper. It also shows how far he has come. West Ham fans welcomed his arrival from the Liberty Stadium last summer and his subsequent performances have more than justified the £7m expense. But it is not so long ago, during his fraught early years with Arsenal, that he was viewed very differently.
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