Pennant and Pires hat-tricks gun down hapless Southampton

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Winger Robert Pires also struck three times, including a sensational 25-yard chip, as Arsenal emorselessly took their FA Cup final opponents apart at Highbury.

It did not take Southampton long to test out Arsenal’s makeshift central defensive pairing of Luzhny, nicknamed the ‘horse’ and Stepanovs, who has previously resembled more of a donkey.