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/ 20 October 2006
Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager famed for his foreign-recruitment policy, claims the club will be regularly producing their own homegrown talent within the next five years. Wenger has built his Arsenal dynasty around players signed from the continent, with many treading the familiar path to north London from his French homeland.
Arsenal were handed a huge Champions League bonus by referee Mike Riley after their Premiership game at Portsmouth was controversially called off because of a waterlogged pitch. Riley postponed the game an hour before kick-off after deciding Portsmouth’s Fratton Park pitch was unplayable following a torrential downpour.