About 45 minutes after Yannick Ferreira Carrasco had applied what was probably the decisive blow to Arsenal’s Champions League hopes, Per Mertesacker emerged from the home dressing room to front up to the media and discuss familiar failings in Arsène Wengers team. The predictable mot du jour was “naivety” and, just as Mertesacker was admitting the team had yet again left themselves exposed on the counter-attack, Stan and Josh Kroenke passed by on their way out of the Emirates. The thoughts of the club’s majority owner and director son were not publicly offered but their faces told of the collective deflation. The Kroenkes have been an increasing presence...
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