Good morning, and welcome to Friday. It's been a strangely muted build-up to the FA Cup this week, but I suppose in some ways that's apt. It's been the most surreal season in living memory, and ahead of a game at an empty Wembley, with no fans in the stadium to share what should be one of the showpiece events of the football calendar, the fact there's been so little focus on it seems just par for the course. Mikel Arteta's press conference was due to take place last night but was postponed until this morning due to ‘technical difficulties'. I don't know whether someone had failed to renew the Arsenal Zoom subscription (pay for a year Stan, it works out cheaper!), or something else,...
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