‘When a striker went past me, I didn’t care’

ARSENAL defender Bacary Sagna was dropped last month as he was struggling to cope with the two-year anniversary of the death of his brother.

The French right-back, now back in the first team and set to start in this evening’s Premier League game at Stoke City, has revealed that sessions with Arsenal’s club psychologist have helped him come to terms with his loss but he still loses concentration as the tragedy continues to haunt him.

“I was not myself any more on the pitch. I had big concentration problems,” said Sagna in a moving interview out today in France’s L’Equipe magazine.