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What does Alex Iwobi owe to Arsene Wenger?

COMMENT By Solace Chukwu Follow on Twitter

Judging by reports, the news of Arsene Wenger's departure from Arsenal on Friday was broken first to the players before the sparse statement released on the club's official website.

Who would not have loved to be a fly on the wall in that moment?

To a man, all of the playing staff had come to the Emirates, the sprawling, somewhat hollow cathedral, to find Wenger holding Mass. That the man defined an era was less apt for them than that he was the era, in fact.