To day August 14 and we may have already had the game of the season.
Liverpool beat Arsenal 4-3 in an incredible game at the Emirates which had pretty much everything – goals, injuries, Jurgen Klopp losing his glasses and, of course, Arsenal fans calling for Arsene Wenger to be sacked.
The first hint that this was going to be a ridiculous match came when Theo Walcott took a penalty.
Tongue stuck out, eyes fixed on a point where the ball may once have been: you can tell just from looking at the picture what happened.
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It was saved. Saved by Simon Mignolet, which is in itself a pretty remarkable thing.What was equally remarkable was that Walcott then made up for his error exactly 69 seconds later by scoring what was clearly a much harder chance.