The steel hand in Arsenal's velvet glove

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Almost immediately, their scepticism waned as this short, angry Frenchman ran on to the Emirates pitch and screamed at Carl Jenkinson, shouted at Tomas Rosicky and followed it up with a brutally hard — yet fair — tackle on Tottenham’s Paulinho.

In the heat of a North London derby, Flamini’s desire and rage burned brightest; it was like he was never away.