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LAURENCE TAYLOR looks at how Arsenal have shifted the ir focus to ho me shores 

A trophy for Arsenal – at last! Goalscorer Aaron Ramsey (on ground), Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshere celebrate the extra-time winner against Hull in last year’s FA Cup final 

IN THE summer of 2011, Arsene Wenger was facing up to the fact that Project Youth had failed. Club captain Cesc Fabregas had just left to re-join his boyhood club Barcelona and he was soon followed out of the exit door by Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy. All three were key players for the team Wenger built after movi...

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