Zombified Arsenal are no longer brutally in love with idea of winning | Barney Ronay

Arsène Wenger’s side were beaten by Manchester City at Wembley – in a cup final where the losers were so instantly and unequivocally the story

An odd thing happened at Wembley as Manchester City’s players celebrated their EFL Cup final win at the final whistle. Turning away from the gleeful blue hordes in one half of the stadium it took a slight moment of double-take to register that the block of silent red at the other end was not flags or shirts but empty plastic seats.

Basically, the Arsenal fans had gone – a tribute to the efficient exit routes of modern stadium design but also deeply unusual in domestic cup finals, where losing supporters invariably stay to applaud a winning run to this stage.

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2sYmk52