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The essential Christmas wish list

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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. But what have the good, the great and the not so great asked for this year? Iain Macintosh takes a look.

Arsene Wenger: A truckload of cotton wool and a new department of club employees to tie wads of it around his players after every game. Arsenal's injury crises defy logic, but if the only way to preserve players is to wrap them up and, ideally, to keep them in isolation pods, then so be it.