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Troy Deeney celebrates scoring in play-off final 2015

Watford fan Jonny Brick is quite content with his team never going up and never going down

When Declan Rice scored the sixth Arsenal goal in the stadium where he made his name, thousands more West Ham United fans joined those who had departed at 4-0.
Despite a six-match winless run, they’d clung to their victory at the Emirates at the end of December as evidence that they could overturn conventional foot-balling wisdom. Wisdom won that February day.
But what did the Irons acolytes expect? Without the Christmas period to knacker them, Arsenal could be sharper, fitter and betterer at keeping ...

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