The Briefing: Arsenal’s worrying start to 2025, a fix for the FA Cup and Walker’s legacy
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“The quality was not the same, but Manchester United’s FA Cup third-round win over Arsenal felt like a throwback. The red card started proceedings, but the contentious penalty decision followed by the team-wide scuffle will be a memory that could rival some of the battles between Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson’s sides of the 1990s and 2000s. Two of the most iconic moments of that rivalry involved penalties taken by Ruud van Nistelrooy so it seemed fitting the first meeting in a cup competition between Mikel Arteta and Ruben Amorim should end with another Dutch striker dispatching a winning spot kick. …”
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