Olivier Giroud has always been a bit of a slow burner. Just as it took him five years in the lower tiers of French football to gain employment from a top flight club, just as he had to wait until the age of 24 to represent the France national team, it's required two-and-a-half seasons of hard graft at Arsenal for the 6 foot 4 striker to earn his share of critical acclaim, following a brace-grabbing display against Middlesbrough in the FA Cup's fifth round. The justification of £10million price-tag has never come into question, but the ultimate instalment in a line of Gunners strikers that includes Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robin van Persie, three of the greatest forwards in...
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