Boxing Day Knockout in East Anglia
Norwich City 0 Arsenal 5 Premier League Sunday 26th December 2021 3pm A very enjoyable Arsenal performance on the road brought Christmas cheer to the traveling Gooners and those able to find a stream to catch the action from Carrow Road. When the Gunners last played Norwich there it was early December 2019. Unai Emery had just been given his cards, with Freddie Ljungberg in charge of the team for the first game of his caretaker spell. It was a disappointing (given Norwich’s low position in the table at the time) 2-2 draw. It is interesting to note that only two of the players in Freddie’s starting eleven began yesterday’s fixture. In the two years since, we’ve enjoyed an FA Cup final win behind closed doors, although also plenty of frustration as Mikel Arteta has effectively been learning on the job. Perhaps, with retrospect, it may turn out that his most significant decision was to freeze Aubameyang out of the first team picture. Now that the player w...
