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30th Nov 2016

Someone found a kid doing his homework during Arsenal’s quarter-final loss

Is this a library?

Tom Victor

Every time you think Arsenal have done the Arsenalest thing in the history of Arsenaling, they go and out-Arsenal themselves yet again.

Is this worse than ‘Gooners and We’re Gunning’? It’s in the same ballpark at least (pun intended).

Now we know Arsenal’s old ground was nicknamed ‘the library’, but one young fan seemed to be taking things a little too literally during the first half of the Gunners’ 2-0 EFL Cup quarter-final defeat at home to Southampton.

Oli Shorts, who describes himself on Twitter as a ‘foolish Arsenal supporter’, spotted someone in front of him who was clearly keen to avoid being labelled with the same description.

Yep, that appears to be a fan doing their homework while sat in the stands.

We’ve all been in the position where we’ve got a deadline coming up and other social commitments that we can’t get out of – that’s just life.

Normally you’d probably just bite the bullet, stay up late to finish the assignment and miss out on a couple of hours’ sleep.

Not this youngster, though. He clearly had the foresight to know the Gunners would struggle early on (perhaps he’d seen the starting line-up) and – with a bit of luck – missed Jordy Clasie and Ryan Bertrand scoring for the visitors.

Perhaps he wanted Arsenal to wait to play football until after he’d finished his work – he might want to be a little more specific next time, though.

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