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WHAM BAM THANK YOU FLAM

HUGO GREENHALGH considers the career of one of his favourite players, Mathieu Flamini, and asks whether he left Arsenal too soon.

Mathieu Flamini on the deck at Arsenal

HOW does one measure such an abject fall from grace? In 2008, Mathieu Flamini was arguably one of the best central midfielders in the Premier League, and a key member of an Arsenal side that should have won the title that season.
Two years previously, he had demonstrated his versatility by filling in at left-back in a Champions League campaign that took Arsenal to the final. Yet just this summer, Flamini, now 28, ...

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