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Arsenal Steamrolls Blackburn

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Mutiny? What mutiny? For a change, Arsène Wenger was surrounded by nothing but jovial faces as his team, and their supporters, remembered what it is like to thoroughly enjoy a game of football. No pressure. No frustration. No embarrassment. Well, not in the home camp anyway. Against opponents who could not have been more accommodating, more ragged, more downbeat, Arsenal were able to put on an exhibition of the kind of quick-witted attacking football which been so frustratingly elusive of late.

Robin van Persie collected his second hat-trick of the season, Theo Walcott enjoyed as many assists, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain crowned another sparkling display with his first strikes in the Read Full Article »