Fleetwood go their own way to down Arsenal and live Carabao Cup dream
Having made a passing reference to Mick Fleetwood in Tuesday’s thrilling edition of your favourite email, Football Daily genuinely wasn’t expecting to be repeatedly typing that particular F-word in our lead story in today’s edition.
While we were aware Arsenal were in the coastal town of Fleetwood for a Fizzy Cup tie that could scarcely have been less glamorous than the previous evening’s Ballon d’Or ceremony at the Palladium, the needle on our patented Potential Shock-o-Meter had barely moved before a match pitting the Premier League champions against a side struggling in League Two.
Even with the residual winds from Storm Boelo still buffeting the ground, we presumed Arsenal’s second string would have enough about them to record a comfortable win at Highbury, over 20 years after they left a London stadium of the same name to begin their residency at the Emirates.
It was not to be and almost five months to the day since exiting a cup competition on penalties following a curiously flat and uninspired display, Mikel Arteta’s side exited a cup competition on penalties following etc, and so on.
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