Alex Crook
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/ 20 October 2006

Wenger hears the winds of change blowing

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.

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/ 26 March 2006

Pompey cry foul as Arsenal take early bus home

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.