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09th Apr 2016

Andy Carroll bullied poor Arsenal and Twitter absolutely loved it

Classic Gunners

Kevin Beirne

There are few seasons that sum up Arsenal’s post-Highbury ineptitude quite like this one.

With Chelsea’s title defence effectively over by Halloween, and both Manchester clubs failing to achieve any sort of consistency, the stage was set for the Gunners to claim their first Premier League title since the unbeaten season of 2003/04.

Despite all this, Arsene Wenger’s men have struggled and find themselves in third place, trailing Leicester City and North London rivals Tottenham.

Coming into Saturday’s game against West Ham, Arsenal fans had the faint glimmer of hope that an epic title challenge could be mounted, but it all went wrong, as Andy Carroll scored a hat-trick with goals either side of half-time to kill off the Arsenal dream.

Despite Laurent Koscielny’s 70th-minute equaliser, Arsenal sit 10 points behind leaders Leicester with just six games remaining.

The surprising thing is that it all started so well when Mesut Ozil opened the scoring on 18 minutes.

https://twitter.com/6Gooner/status/718771241008517120

Then Alexis Sanchez popped up to double the lead…

https://twitter.com/Mesutholic/status/718773753241563137

But a quick-fire brace from Andy Carroll meant the teams were level at the break before he bagged a third early in the second half…

https://twitter.com/gunnerblog/status/718779111364300800

https://twitter.com/Billie_T/status/718788356075872257

https://twitter.com/HarryCFC_/status/718785121235574784

The English striker was gaining a lot of attention for his unusual hairstyle…

Arsenal fans were quick to wonder why first-choice keeper Petr Cech had been left on the bench, with some questioning the decision before kick off…

Even though Laurent Koscielny equalised with 20 minutes to play, Gooners accepted that their season was now about staying in the top four…

https://twitter.com/Tweet2Hd/status/718787639990689792

https://twitter.com/pvkichulo/status/718786777109118976

https://twitter.com/ArabLightening/status/718784701318737920

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