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Arsene Wenger has had to defend the Gunners' 14-minute flight to Norwich

The Gunners have been criticised by an environmental group for choosing to fly to Norwich but Arsene Wenger says they had little option.

ARSENE WENGER HAS defended Arsenal’s decision to take a 14-minute flight to Norwich for Sunday’s game with Alex Neil’s side.

The Gunners’ travelling party are due to fly from Luton airport to Norwich on Saturday, despite a train journey from London taking just two hours and a journey by road taking only slightly longer.

Wenger, who opted to take the same journey by plane in 2012, has been branded “ridiculous” by environmental group Plane Stupid, but the 66-year-old insists the flight is a necessity given traffic issues in Norfolk.

“When we made the decision there was some roadworks planned,” he said. “Sometimes the access to Norwich is difficult, so we decided to fly. But it’s not a lot of difference.

“We do not fly a lot any more. We take a train or coach. This is an exception. Now, we have a new coach.

“When you go to Birmingham, we took the train a lot because the traffic was impossible on a Friday afternoon on the M1.

“Now we found a solution is that we have dinner here and travel afterwards. So we go 7.30 to 9.30 and that usually goes well. We have no traffic problems. Before, when you left at 3 o’clock, we never knew when we would arrive.”

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    Mar 6th 2017, 8:27 AM

    Sheerin is right Mayo people can’t be trusted. We need to secure our border. Build a big wall in Ballaghaderreen and make Enda Kenny pay for it.

    When Mayo sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. They are bad hombres.

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    Mar 6th 2017, 8:27 AM

    Disgraceful behaviour towards Kevin McStay

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    Mar 6th 2017, 9:17 AM

    In fairness, he s doing his best to get away from mayo! give him a chance!

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    Mar 6th 2017, 10:02 AM

    Sheerin made some very good points. Roscommon were that poor against mayo that something had to be said about what was going on with players leaving the squad and making themselves unavailable. He just made the argument seem petty when he mentioned that 2 mayo men have no interest in roscommon.since then the media and mcstays responses have all been on that point which isn’t the real issue of what is going on within the camp That was passion becoming silly but everything else he said that nite was spot on. Roscommon rolled over for mayo last sat nite and Sheerin was trying to state that. It’s just a pity at all the other things he said that nite were over looked as a result of a throw away silly comment

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    Mar 6th 2017, 8:53 PM

    I am not personally a McStay fan, but a man that held that position previously to use a broadcasting forum like that to vent his grievance and sad perspective is unforgivable, he should be ashamed of himself.

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