A bumper 35065 crowd witnessed Sheffield Wednesday hand Arsenal a lesson in vivid attacking football that took apart the gilded visitors and sent them back to London humbled.
It means the Owls are in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup and they have beaten the Gunners for a first time since September 1998 – the “Paolo Di Canio-Paul Alcock” game when the former was sent off for pushing the latter,who was that day’s referee. This, too, or was a memorable occasion for Wednesday but for the apt reason. Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
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Source: theguardian.com