Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
Eh?
They don't play wingers and they knew our best chance was out wide. They re-laid the sides recently and it'll be a shithole out wide.

Quote Originally Posted by Arsene Wenger
"I am a bit worried about the quality of the pitch. It doesn’t look exceptional. Hopefully tomorrow it will be better"

"It has been re-laid down the flanks very recently and you know what it is like when you have just laid a pitch like that. It takes time to settle and become flat. At the moment it isn’t flat. But they told me it will be much better tomorrow night."
Maybe if (IF!) true, the thinking behind not starting Oxlade is that it might be unplayable for wingers. If someone gets injured the same way Mertesacker did, Wenger's going to go nuts. And he'll be laughed off by Arsenal fans and the media for it.