It was an unguarded comment from an Arsenal official and it came shortly after Eberechi Eze?s mural outside the Emirates Stadium had been defaced with white paint ? presumably by a Tottenham fan. It summed up the snark between the clubs and Arsenal?s delight at pipping their rivals to Eze?s signature from Crystal Palace at the end of August. ?We sign a top-class forward for ?60m. They throw paint at walls.?
Eze?s mural has since been redone; it now has a caption to reinforce the storyline about the boyhood Arsenal fan coming back to his club after being released as a youngster. ?All roads lead home.? And so it did not need a joke from Thomas Frank on Friday to set up Eze vs Spurs. ?Who?s Eze?? the Spurs manager had said; a classic of the fate-tempting genre.
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