Originally Posted by Peter He is generally standing there with his back to goal, quite heavily marked given that he is the only guy in the bloody box. If the plan is to play the ball of him for a runner then, sorry, but Giroud was great at that. Should have kept him..... He's a striker, supposedly a world class one. His job is to ensure there's no such thing as "quite heavily marked" so far as he is concerned Perhaps Thierry has been gone so long that all our players have forgotten that.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us. "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
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