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29th Oct 2016

Arsenal Fan TV’s Claude made to eat his words about Olivier Giroud

He took it all in good spirits

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Arsenal recorded their seventh win in 10 Premier League games against Sunderland, thanks to one man in particular.

Olivier Giroud is still yet to start a Premier League game this season, but the Frenchman made an instant impact from the bench to lead Arsène Wenger’s team to a 4-1 victory.

Giroud has been a divisive figure in North London, scoring regularly but also missing a frustrating amount of chances, and there’s nowhere his nature is felt more keenly than among the fine folk of Arsenal Fan TV.

One of the fan channel mainstays – Claude – has arguably been the striker’s biggest detractor. But even he was forced to eat humble pie after the second-half sub scored with each of his first two touches to ruin David Moyes’ afternoon – not to mention that of attempted Sunderland super-sub Adnan Januzaj.

“If I remember correctly you said leave Olivier in London,” fellow Fan TV regular Ty told a beaming Claude after the victory at the Stadium of Light.

Claude did well to laugh it off, jokingly calling Ty a grass, and eventually – albeit after plenty of prompting – offered Giroud an apology.

Things are looking up for Arsenal, and everyone’s getting in on the act.

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